"The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama)/Articles & Commentary Part 2)

The following are links to articles & commentary related to the main article "The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama): Part 2: September 7-10, 2006.

Also see:

• "The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama)/Articles & Commentary Part 3) (For September 11, 2006, and beyond).
• "The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama)/Articles & Commentary Part 1) (Links from 2005 and for July, August, and September 1-6, 2006).
• "The Path to 9/11" (2006 Docudrama)/Related SourceWatch Resources

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September 7, 2006

• Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), News Release: "ABC Must Correct the Factual Inaccuracies in 9/11 Movie," U.S. Newswire, September 7, 2006.
• News Release: "Senate Democratic Leadership Urges Disney CEO to Cancel Misleading 9/11 Miniseries," Office of Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, U.S. Newswire, September 7, 2006.
• "Offical ABC Statement on The Path to 9/11," ABC Television, September 7, 2006.
• News Release: "Scholastic Replaces 'The Path to 9/11' Classroom Guide with New Discussion Materials Focusing on Critical Thinking and Media Literacy Skills," Scholastic, September 7, 2006.
• Marc Peyser, "An Untrue 'Path'? Clinton administration officials are demanding changes to a forthcoming mini-series tracing the origins of the September 11 attacks. Should the network bend?" Newsweek (MSNBC), September 7, 2006.
• pb, "How Did 'The Path To 9/11' Get Made--Research?" ePluribus Media, September 7, 2006.
• John Cochran, "Clintonistas Claim Foul Over ABC 9/11 Film. Ex-Clinton Officials Say Film Is 'Terribly Wrong' About Events Leading Up to September 11th Attacks," ABC News, September 7, 2006.
• PR Newswire, September 7, 2006:

• "New Accusations Arise About ABC and Disney Misleading U.S. Television Viewers About 9/11 During Run-Up to Midterm Elections; U.S. Politics Today Offers Extended Coverage"
• "Scholastic Replaces 'The Path to 9/11' Classroom Guide With New Discussion Materials Focusing on Critical Thinking and Media Literacy Skills"

• Robert Bianco, "Missteps mar ambitious 'Path to 9/11'," USA TODAY, September 7, 2006.
• William Triplett, "Pols pound 'Path'. Under fire, ABC mulls yanking mini," Variety, September 7, 2006.
• Jim Benson and John Eggerton, "ABC Will Only Make Minor Changes to Path to 9-11," Associated Press (Broadcasting & Cable), September 7, 2006.
• Deepti Hajela, "Clinton officials protest 9/11 TV series," Associated Press (Boston Globe), September 7, 2006.
• Howard Kurtz, "Clinton Administration Officials Assail ABC's 'The Path to 9/11'," Washington Post, September 7, 2006.
• Shaun Waterman, "Clinton ex-aides criticize 9/11 drama," UPI (Washington Times), September 7, 2006.
• YouTube, September 7, 2006:

• "Clinton Defense Secretary on 'The Path to 9/11'": William Sebastian Cohen on CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.
• "Editor and Publisher on 'The Path to 9/11'"

• Jesse McKinley, "Three From Clinton Administration Urge Disney to Cancel or Revise 9/11 Mini-Series," New York Times, September 7, 2006.
• Rob Owen, "On the Tube: ABC veers off course with 'Path to 9/11'," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 7, 2006.
• Mark A. Perigard, "No great shakes: Presentation distracts from content in ‘Path to 9/11’," The Edge TV News/Boston Herald, September 7, 2006.
• Scott Collins, "Following complaints, ABC tweaks its 9/11 mini-series," Tribune Newspapers (Chicago Tribune/Los Angeles Times), September 7, 2006.
• "ABC says 9/11 miniseries criticism unjustified," Associated Press (CBS47.TV), September 7, 2006.
• "Controversy Over ABC's 9/11 'Docudrama' Hits Fever Pitch. ABC's 9/11 film featuring made up events, faces harsh criticism from real-life characters such as former president Bill Clinton," Editor & Publisher (AlterNet), September 7, 2006.
• "US in firing line of mini-series," The Border Mail (Australia), September 7, 2006.
• Lindsey Beyerstein, "Mickey Mouse joins team Rove. Disney loses $30 million on 9/11 propaganda movie," AlterNet Blog, September 7, 2006.
• Joe Gandelman, "ABC's 'The Path To 911' Is Now Totally Politicized" (UPDATED), The Moderate Voice, September 7, 2006.
• kos, "ABC's big whine," Daily Kos, September 7, 2006.
• Hunter, "Let Mickey Be Your Umbrella," Daily Kos, September 7, 2006.*"The Path to an Airbrushed 9/11," truthdig, September 7, 2006.
• "Right-wing Spin on ABC 9/11 'Documentary' Slams Democrats, Distorts History," OpEdNews.com (Democratic Party), September 7, 2006.
• Anthony Wade, "The Height of Hubris for the Corporate Media and the GOP, Abusing the Collective Sadness and Pain of America," OpEdNews.com, September 7, 2006.
• Mary Howe Kiraly, "Who Knew: Democrats Are Blamed for Pre- 9/11 Failures," OpEdNews.com, September 7, 2006.
• Eric Boehlert, "Scholastic and ABC Team Up To Spread Misinformation About 9/11 To Students Nationwide," The Huffington Post, September 7, 2006.
• John Borowski, "Peddling 'The Path to 9/11' to Kids. Disney Teams with Scholastic," CounterPunch, September 7, 2006.
• "Scholastic squashes 'The Path to 9/11' guide. The children's publishing company says will create a discussion guide focusing on media literacy, critical thinking and historical background," CNNMoney.com, September 7, 2006.
• Brent Budowsky, "Boycott Disney And ABC For Partisan and Phony Series Exploiting 9-11," The Huffington Post, September 7, 2006.
• Billmon, "Pest Control," Whiskey Bar, September 7, 2006.
• John Amato, Crooks and Liars, September 7, 2006:

• "Harvey Keitel speaks out on Path to 9/11: 'It turned out not all the facts were correct'"
• "Greg Mitchell: ABC Film Heavily Weighted Against Clinton. Screenwriter Admitted to Making Scene Up"
• "ABC's Ridiculous Statement on Their 9/11 Fakeumentary"

• Jamie Holly, "Scholastic’s Decision To Pull Their Material On ABC’s Docucrap," Crooks and Liars, September 7, 2006.
• Glenn Greenwald, "Bush Supporters Condemn Fictionalized political miniseries—in 2003," Unclaimed Territory, September 7, 2006.
• Justin Rood, TPM Muckraker, September 7, 2006:

• "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Neocons"
• "ABC News: 'Path to 9/11' Didn't Go Through Our Offices"
• "Scholastic Veers from 'Path to 9/11'"

• Judd Legum, Think Progress, September 7, 2006:

• "CONFIRMED: Scholastic Still Promoting Path To 9/11"
• "Path to 9/11 Writer Admits Controversial Scene Was 'Improvised,' 'Accidents Occur'"
• "'NYT' Falsely Claims 9/11 Commission Concluded Lewinsky Distracted Clinton Admin From Terrorism"

• Faiz Shakir, Think Progress, September 7, 2006:

• "FBI Agent Who Consulted On Path to 9/11 Quit Halfway Through Because 'They Were Making Things Up'" Includes video link. re James Bamford
• "Gaffney Cites Made-Up Scene In Path To 9/11 As Symbolic of Clinton Admin's 'Risk-Averse Attitude'"

• Amanda Terkel, "Conservative Author Richard Miniter: 'There’s Zero Factual Basis' For Key Scene In Path To 9/11," Think Progress, September 7, 2006.
• Nico Pitney, "ABC Statement: Criticisms of Path to 9/11 Are 'Premature and Irresponsible'," Think Progress, September 7, 2006.
• Payson Schwin, "Conservative Media Watchdog Says ABC Should Correct Inaccuracies In Path to 9/11," Think Progress, September 7, 2006.
• "New Target: Disney Chairman George Mitchell," Think Progress, September 7, 2006.
• Media Matters for America, September 7, 2006:

• "ABC, Scholastic injecting conservative misinformation into the classroom"
• "Scarborough hosted Brent Bozell, but no progressive to talk about ABC 'docudrama'"
• "ABC's Path to 9/11 partly based on information from Bush administration PR official"
• "Media reports fail to probe 9-11 Commission chairman Kean's role with ABC's factually flawed Path to 9/11 miniseries"
• "ABC statement on The Path to 9/11 claimed film not final, called attacks 'premature and irresponsible' -- despite prior National Press Club screening, copies to conservatives"
• "'Media Matters' Applauds Scholastic's Decision to Pull Flawed 'Path to 9-11' Educational Materials"
• "The (Disney) mouse doesn't scare the (GOP) elephant"

• John Aravosis, "NYT: Disney/ABC filmmaker admits they just made stuff up," AMERICAblog, September 7, 2006.
• Ron Brynaert, "Democrats call on Scholastic to keep ABC's 9/11 docudrama 'out of schools'," The Raw Story, September 7, 2006.
• "Readers' comments on Bush/Terror," consortiumnews.com, September 7, 2006. re Scholastic.
• Julian Brookes, "ABC and 'The Path to 9/11'," MoJo Blog/Mother Jones, September 7, 2006.
• Kim Pearson, "ABC's 9/11 miniseries and the ethics of docudrama," blogher Blog, September 7, 2006.
• John Gibson, "Clinton and Company Angry Over ABC's 9/11 Movie," The Big Story/Fox News, September 7, 2006.
• Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters, September 7, 2006:

• "Former Head of CIA’s Bin Laden Unit Responds to 9/11 Miniseries Controversy"
• "Reid and Durbin’s Letter Requesting the Cancellation of 'The Path to 9/11'"

• P.J. Gladnick, "Left-Wing Blogosphere up in Arms Over 'The Path To 9/11'," NewsBusters, September 7, 2006.
• Warner Todd Huston, "ABC's Path to 9/11- STILL being edited? Bowing to Dem. Pressure?" NewsBusters, September 7, 2006.
• Ian Bishop, "Bubba Goes Ballistic on ABC About Its Damning 9/11 Movie. Insists Net Pull Drama," The New York Post, September 7, 2006.
• Hugh Hewitt, "Why Does the Left Hate 'The Path to 9/11'?" Townhall.com, September 7, 2006.
• W.H. Mann, "Asleep at the Switch: The Path to 9/11," NewsMax, September 7, 2006.
• "Clinton Demands ABC Fix 9/11 Movie or Pull It," NewsMax, September 7, 2006.
• Sher Zieve, The Conservative Voice, September 7, 2006:

• "ABC Capitulates to Pressure from Clinton and Democrats"
• "Clinton Administration Trying to Block ABC Miniseries Airing-UPDATE 2"

September 8, 2006

• David Olson, "Disney Does 9/11: History as Infotainment," mediachannel.org, September 8, 2006.
• Jesse McKinley, "F.B.I. Agents Question Accuracy of 9/11 Series," New York Times, September 8, 2006.
• Alessandra Stanley, "Laying Blame and Passing the Buck, Dramatized," New York Times, September 8, 2006.
• Howard Kurtz, "ABC to Alter Show on Pre-9/11 Run-Up," Washington Post, September 8, 2006.
• Editorial: "Fabricating history. ABC docudrama on 9/11 jettisons accuracy in favor of fictional sensationalism," Houston Chronicle, September 8, 2006.
• Doug Elfman, "Accuracy aside, ABC's '9/11' deserves to bomb," Chicago Sun-Times (TV Review), September 8, 2006.
• James Gordon Meek and Helen Kennedy, "ABC's film flap. Trims 9/11 series as Dems howl," New York Daily News, September 8, 2006.
• Suzanne C. Ryan, "Compliants Mount Even Before Show is Aired," Boston Globe, September 8, 2006.
• Matthew Gilbert, Television Review: "Fragmented 'Path' tries to cover too much ground," Boston Globe, September 8, 2006.
• News Release: "Dean: ABC Should Reveal Funders of Slanderous 9/11 Propaganda," U.S. Newswire, September 8, 2006.
• "Donnie Wahlberg defends ABC's 'The Path to 9/11' TV miniseries," UPI (RealityTVWorld.com), September 8, 2006.
• Greg Sargent, "Bob Kerrey To ABC: Fix Film's Inaccuracies," TPM Cafe, September 8, 2006.
• Justin Rood, "Path to 9/11 Maker Has Evangelical Ties," TPM Muckraker, September 8, 2006.
• Max Blumenthal, "Discover the Secret Right-Wing Network Behind ABC's 9/11 Deception," The Huffington Post, September 8, 2006. re David Horowitz and Center for the Study of Popular Culture
• Nico Pitney, "9/11 Commissioners Criticize 'The Path to 9/11'," Think Progress, September 8, 2006.
• Payson Schwin, "Video: Bill Bennett Says ABC Should Correct Those Inaccuracies in Path to 9/11," Think Progress, September 8, 2006.
• Faiz Shakir, Think Progress, September 8, 2006:

• "Clinton on Path To 9/11: Film Contradicts 'The Factual Findings of the 9/11 Commission'"
• "Path to 9/11 Produced By Evangelical Activists Who Sought To ‘Transform Hollywood’"
• "Conservatives On The Path to 9/11: ‘Unacceptable,’ ‘Defamatory,’ ‘Strewn With A Lot of Problems,’ ‘Zero Factual Basis’"
• "Gore On Path to 9/11: ‘It Would Be Fundamentally Irresponsible To Air Such Distortions’"

• Judd Legum, Think Progress, September 8, 2006:

• "Kean Hasn’t Talked To Clinton About Path to 9/11 Because 'He Was Out Campaigning Against My Son Yesterday'"
• "FLASHBACK: ABC Said Path to 9/11 Was 'Locked and Ready To Air'"

• Media Matters for America, September 8, 2006:

• "CNN, Fox, ABC hosts ignored key issues in interviews of Kean: his relationship with The Path to 9/11 producers, possible benefit to his son's Senate campaign"
• "MSNBC hosts make series of misleading or baseless claims about The Path to 9/11"
• "Scarborough, Medved, Bozell contradicted past criticism of The Reagans biopic to defend The Path to 9/11"
• "Tell Disney and ABC to stop playing partisan politics with 9-11. Disney reveals clear double standard on inaccurate, pro-conservative 'docudrama',"

• "Dean: 'Who funded this $40 million dollar slanderous propaganda?'" The Raw Story, September 8, 2006.
• Democratic National Committee, "Nearly 200,000 Americans Agree, ABC Needs to Pull the Plug on Slanderous Propaganda Film," U.S. Newswire, September 8, 2005.
• EarlG, "Path to 9/11 produced by RW activists: goal to 'transform Hollywood'," make tea, not war/Democratic Underground, September 8, 2006.
• Janie, "'Google Bombing' Path to 9/11," News Hounds, September 8, 2006.
• Gerald Eisman, "In A Word – Distortion – When threatened, some people resort to innuendo, lies, and verbal attacks," American Chronicle, September 8, 2006.
• Sher Zieve, "DNC Launches All Out Attack Against ABC," The Conservative Voice, September 8, 2006.

September 9, 2006

• Andrew Wallenstein, "Bush speech gives ABC more '9/11' headaches," Hollywood Reporter, September 9, 2006.
• John Amato, "ABC's promoting The Path to 9/11 as the official true story worldwide," Crooks and Liars, September 9, 2006.
• "European Path to 9/11 Trailer promotes 'official true story' which falsely blames Clinton officials," The Raw Story, September 9, 2006.
• Tom Shales, "ABC's Twisted 'Path to 9/11'," Washington Post, September 9, 2006.
• Scott Collins and Tina Daunt, "ABC Stands By Its 9/11 Story--Almost. After minor edits in response to Democratic critics, the miniseries will air as scheduled. It's already set off a bitter election-year dispute," Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2006.
• Tim Rutten, "ABC follows a path to shame," Los Angeles Times, September 9, 2006.
• David Bauder, "ABC's 'Path' of stiff resistance. Demos, Historians Slam 'Falsification', Want Film Yanked," Associated Press (Mercury News), September 9, 2006.
• Melanie McFarland, "Fudged facts put 'Path to 9/11' on a slippery slope," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 9, 2006.
• Michael Tsai, "Kona filmmaker defends 'Path to 9/11'," The Honolulu Advertiser, September 9, 2006.
• Judd Legum, Think Progress, September 9, 2006:

• "Director Defends Accuracy of Path to 9/11: ‘We Have Our CIA Consultants and Clinton Has His’"
• "ThinkFast: September 9, 2006 — Path to 911 Edition"

• "Kean blows off blogosphere 'grandstanding'," Think Progress, September 9, 2006.
• Dave Johnson, "ABC 'Path To 9/11' Connected To Ongoing Effort To Blame Clinton," The Huffington Post, September 9, 2006; cross-posted at See the Forest.
• John Aravosis of AMERICAblog, September 9, 2006, comments while pre-viewing The Path to 9/11:

• "Disney/ABC adds mock assassination of Bill Clinton to 9/11 flick"
• "Third Time Thye Bring Up Monica"
• "Good God"
• "Defamatory Sandy Berger scene in 9/11 show is THE culmination of the entire first half, it is IMPOSSIBLE to edit it out"
• "American Airlines to blame for 9/11, Disney/ABC movie falsely claims"

• John Aravosis, AMERICAblog, September 9, 2006:

• "Blogosphere vs Disney/ABC as done by Monty Python" (YouTube video).
• "Please help us plan Stage II: Please help us plan Stage II: The attack on Disney/ABC starting on Tuesday Sept 12"
• "Disney/ABC markets defamatory 9/11 show as 'exactly what happened' in ads abroad"
• "MoDo asks why anyone would make things up about 9/11"
• "Will Clinton, Berger and Albright threaten the BBC with a libel suit?"

• Jeff Huber, "Much Ado About 9/11," ePluribus Media, September 9, 2006.
• Allen L. Roland, "Bush Still Feeding on Carcass of 9/11," OpEdNews, September 9, 2006.
• Man MKE's Blog, "A Projetor, Not a Protector," TPM Cafe, September 9, 2006.
• "Toppling the twin towers of Babel," Inside Bay Area, September 9, 2006.
• "NY Times falsely suggested criticism of Path to 9/11 and calls for its cancellation coming solely from Clinton administration members, Democratic officials," Media Matters for America, September 9, 2006.
• Weldon Berger, "The Path to 9/11: An Open Letter to Lee Hamilton," BTC News, September 9, 2006.
• Martin Lewis, "ABC's Path to 9/11 Writer Gets Rave Review!" The Huffington Post, September 9, 2006.
• Bruce Kluger, "Why You Want to See Path to 9/11," The Huffington Post, September 9, 2006.
• Brent Budosky, "Historians Will Morally Impeach George W. Bush For Exploiting, Not Honoring, 9-11," The Huffington Post, September 9, 2006.

September 10, 2006

• "Live blogging of New Zealand screening of The Path to 9/11," WebWeaver's World Blogspot, September 10, 2006. While viewing on TV One, WebWeaver liveblogged the entire first part.
• Matt Stoller, "Mickey Mouse's Karl Rove, Zenia Mucha," MyDD, September 10, 2006. re Zenia Mucha
• "TVNZ to run disclaimer on 9/11 mini series," Stuff (New Zealand), September 10, 2006.
• "Disclaimer Before September 11 Mini-Series," Newswire.co.nz, September 10, 2006.
• "TVNZ plans no changes to controversial mini-series" and "Auckland law lecturers urge TVNZ to pull 9/11 programme," Radio New Zealand, September 10, 2006.
• Clare Morgan, "The Path to 9/11. This long and complicated story demands your full attention - yet it is hard not to get sucked in," Sydney Morning Herald, September 10, 2006.
• Jennifer Johnston, "BBC caught up in row over 9/11 programme," Sunday Herald (UK), September 10, 2006.
• Phil Rosenthal, "ABC's 9/11 film 'special' for all wrong reasons," Chicago Tribune, September 10, 2006.
• Ed O'Keefe, "9/11 Commissioners Debate ABC Entertainment Movie, Iraq, War on Terror. Guests Divided on Path to 9/11," This Week with George Stephanopoulos/ABC News, September 10, 2006.
• "Controversial 9/11 Film Airs Abroad -- Here Are Edits -- More Changes in U.S.?" Editor & Publisher, September 10, 2006.
• Dave Johnson, "Republican Ad Echos 'Path To 9/11' Theme," Seeing the Forest, September 10, 2006.
• John Aravosis, AMERICAblog, September 10, 2006:

• "Disney/ABC gets Sec. of State Albright's name wrong in 9/11 mockumentary"
• "Disney/ABC defames Clinton National Security Adviser Sandy Berger"
• "Disney/ABC defames American Airlines in worldwide broadcast"
• "Live blogging Path to 9/11"
• "Would it kill the Los Angeles Times to do REAL reporting?"

• Judd Legum, "9/11 Commissioner Lehman On Path to 9/11: 'If You Don’t Like The Hits On the Clinton Administration, Welcome to the Club'," Think Progress, September 10, 2006.
• "DC affiliate (WJLA) distances itself from Path to 9/11," Think Progress, September 10, 2006.
• John Amato, "Harvey Keitel tried to fix ABC's fakeumentary," Crooks and Liars, September 10, 2006.
• "ABC/Disney 9-11 film also gets facts wrong about dead FBI agent, American Airlines," Media Matters for America, September 10, 2006.
• A. Alexander, "And We're All Shocked That Disney Would Air a GOP Propaganda Piece?" Progressive Daily Beacon, September 10, 2006.
• Mark Raven, "Logical Consequences. Another possible trail on The Path to 9/11. Try Zenia Mucha," TPM Cafe, September 10, 2006.
• Bob Parks, "The Path To 9/11 Is Down Sandy’s Pants," BlogWonks/MensNewsDaily.com, September 10, 2006.
• Al Brown, "The Path to the Next 9/11," NewsBusters, September 10, 2006.
• Noel Sheppard, "9/11 Commissioners Kean and Lehman Speak Out in Favor of ‘Path’ Docudrama," NewsBusters, September 10, 2006.