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The Path to the Truth About 9/11
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   There's a lot of writing about The Path to 9/11. In case you've been
   incommunicado The Path to 9/11 is an ABC mini-series scheduled for
   Sunday and Monday nights. Based on the 9/11 Commission's report, it
   purports to tell what led up to the event five years ago Monday. I
   hear that rather than feel that the Clinton Administration let us
   down, after seeing the movie, we all will believe we are at war and
   that radical Islam is out to end the West's way of life.

   Some of the docudrama is getting heat from Democrats, Richard Clark
   and Bill Clinton about a particular scene:

     ...this movie, (The Path to 9/11)...shows the Northern Alliance,
     Afghanistan warriors, with CIA officials outside a compound in
     Afghanistan, inside of which is Osama bin Laden. They are on the
     verge of capturing bin Laden; they know what building he's in, and
     all of a sudden when the CIA agent on the ground -- whose name in
     the movie is Mike, which is a composite; there's a composite figure
     here -- on the phone with people at the National Security Council
     and the White House war room or whatever it is. In this scene,
     Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger refuse to give authorization.
     George Tenet refuses to give authorization, and Berger hangs up on
     the CIA agent, and they say, "Look, if you do this you gotta do it
     on your own. You're taking the heat if it doesn't work well.

   Richard Clark and Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger say it never
   happened. [1]Rush Limbaugh quoted from a July 5th [2]Washington Times
   editorial or column by Michael F. Scheuer. Mr. Scheuer is a 22-year
   veteran with the CIA, created and served as the chief of the agency's
   Osama bin Laden unit at the Counterterrorist Center. Scheuer says
   about Richard Clark's book, Against All Enemies

     Another spectacular untruth is on page 52: "Later in the 1990s,
     CIA... [failed] to put U.S. operatives into the country
     [Afghanistan] to kill bin Laden and the al-Qaeda leadership,
     relying on Afghans instead." Mr. Clarke, of course, was at the
     center of Mr. Clinton's advisers, who resolutely refused to order
     the CIA to kill bin Laden. In spring 1998, I briefed Mr. Clarke and
     senior CIA, Department of Defense and FBI officers on a plan to
     kidnap bin Laden. Mr. Clarke's reaction was that "it was just a
     thinly disguised attempt to assassinate bin Laden." I replied that
     if he wanted bin Laden dead, we could do the job quickly. Mr.
     Clarke's response was that the president did not want bin Laden
     assassinated, and that we had no authority to do so.

   He continues

     Mr. Clarke's book is also a crucial complement to the September 11
     panel's failure to condemn Mr. Clinton's failure to capture or kill
     bin Laden on any of the eight to 10 chances afforded by CIA
     reporting. Mr. Clarke never mentions that President Bush had no
     chances to kill bin Laden before September 11 and leaves readers
     with the false impression that he, Mr. Clinton and Mr. Clinton's
     national security adviser, Sandy Berger, did their best to end the
     bin Laden threat. That trio, in my view, abetted al Qaeda, and if
     the September 11 families were smart they would focus on the
     dereliction of Dick, Bill and Sandy and not the antics of convicted
     September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui.

   This from a CIA agent who was there. Who are you going to believe and
   are you going to allow a few people to intimidate a major broadcast
   network with loss of the license? We should be demanding the movie to
   be shown and debate its conclusions afterward.

   [3]The Path To 9/11 [4]Michael F. Scheuer [5]Richard Clarke [6]Mover
   Mike

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References

   1. http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_090806/content/truth_detector.guest.html
   2. http://insider.washingtontimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060704-110004-4280r
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/The+Path+To+9/11
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/Michael+F.+Scheuer
   5. http://technorati.com/tag/Richard+Clarke
   6. http://technorati.com/tag/Mover+Mike
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