Path to 911 Author Speaks, Despite Gag Order

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Do you remember all the noise around the ABC-TV Movie, The Path to 911? Democrats, particularly those involved with the Clinton administration were incensed at what they alleged was full of distortions. The movie's agenda, from their perspective, was to blame Clinton for 9/11, and to basically let both Bushes off the hook.

Conservatives snapped back, particularly Sean Hannity, who has even recently showed "forbidden" scenes that were eventually reluctantly cut from the film.

RawStory.com has a great story up about the author of one of the books the film was based on. He's under a gag order, recent events have led him to speak out anyway, no longer able to hold back. It's quite interesting.

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Author under gag order assails producer, ABC for 'Path to 9/11'

By Peter Lance

Last Wednesday, in a front page LA Times Calendar piece “Clinton and the missing DVD,” reporter Martin Miller gave voice to the latest series of charges from the mini-series’ neo-con writer/producer Cyrus Nowrasteh who now claims that out of deference to Hillary Clinton, ABC is shelving the five hour mini-series which was hyper-critical of her husband’s counter-terrorism record. [snip]

In his latest FrontPage booking, Nowrasteh whines, “Last year at this time it was a coordinated effort from the Clintons, Sandy Berger, the DNC, and the far-left loony blogosphere to swamp ABC with emails and phone calls and threats to get them to block the broadcast, or recut the movie. Since then it’s been more subtle. I know there have been phone calls to top execs at Disney from President Clinton himself, and friends of the Clintons, of which there are many in Hollywood.” [snip]

As the author of one of the three books on which The Path was based, I’m now weighing in – despite a gag order - to suggest that ABC may have other reasons for shelving Nowrasteh’s Clinton bash; a mini-series that virtually blames 9/11 on the ex-President’s failures to get bin Laden, yet gives a pass to Bush 41 for failing to stop the first World Trade Center bombing and Bush 43 for “The Day Of;” arguably the greatest defense failure in US history. . .

Read the whole story at: RawStory.com