Deepti Hajela of the Dissociated Press reports that in a classic demonstration of hypocrisy, high-profile former Clinton administration officials have come out against Disney/ABC regarding their upcoming miniseries, "The Path to 9/11".
Madeline Albright (Clinton's incompetent Secretary of State), Sandy Berger (Clinton's treasonous National Security Advisor), Bruce Lindsay (head of the revisionist Clinton Foundation) and Douglas Band (vacuous Clinton advisor) have expressed their concern over inaccuracies that they say were found in the movie.
Lindsey and Band complain that, "By ABC's own standard, ABC has gotten it terribly wrong." (Well, come on, dudes. This is Disney/ABC we're talking about. What did you expect?) Jay Carson, spokesman for the Clinton Foundation, said:
"ABC/Disney acknowledges this show is fiction and in direct contradiction of the 9-11 commission report and the facts, and it is despicable that ABC/Disney would insist on airing a fictional version of what is a serious and emotional event for our country..."
The reader will not fail to note the supreme irony of Mr. Carson's statement. One need only recall the extreme maneuvering by these same members of the Clinton administration in their efforts to cover their own criminally-negligent and treasonous asses during the 9/11 Commission hearings. Yet in all fairness, they do have a point. Disney is not accurately portraying the Clinton Administration's feckless actions which ultimately caused the deaths of more than 3,000 Americans five years ago. The Clinton administration was far more criminally negligent than the movie relates.
Carter further declares in faux outrage,
"It is unconscionable to mislead the American public about one of the most horrendous tragedies our country has ever known."
(Mr. Carter fails to note that the people whom he represents are guilty of the same thing.)
Let us start with the two principle operators in this drama: Madeline Albright and Sandy Berger.
While Madeline Albright insisted in her statement to the 9/11 Commission that the State Department made counterterrorism their centerpiece, the record shows that when Paul Bremer suggested adding Afghanistan to the list of recognized state sponsors of terrorism Albright refused on the grounds that such a move would be tantamount to recognizing the Taliban as a legitimate government. Albright stated that recognition of the Taliban as a legitimate government was a carrot she dangled in front of Afghanistan in hopes that the Taliban would cooperate with the Clinton administration's policy on terrorism. History relates that the Clinton administration's policy in dealing with nations who sponsored terrorism consistently fell short of taking effective action against those nations. Albright's role in shaping the State Department's toothless policy regarding Afghanistan effectively provided the time that bin Laden needed to plan and execute the 9/11 attacks.
Furthermore, Albright refused to support military action against Afghanistan after the USS Cole bombing, because she placed world opinion about a proposed retaliatory strike as more important than defending the security of the United States. So while Afghanistan continued to support bin Laden with real estate and materiel, the Clinton administration continued to fritter away its security for the sake of looking good to the very Muslim nations who hated America and supported al Qaeda.
Sandy Berger is the other chief rogue in our gallery. Berger forbade the exchange of information from military intelligence gathered by the Able Danger team to law enforcement officials that, had it been allowed, could have led to the arrests of the al Qaeda team that was responsible for the 9/11 outrage. His obstruction of an effective counterterrorist action was probably motivated by the prevailing attitude within the administration at that time. Remember, the Clinton administration was roundly and venomously blamed for Janet Reno's criminal overreaction to and the horrifying end of the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas, and for Reno's inexcusable approval use of paramilitary force to remove a young Cuban boy from his unarmed relatives. After these two disasters, the Clinton administration was not about to pull another paramilitary operation against a group of religious zealots. This fear of "looking bad" is probably what motivated Berger to scotch the efforts of the DOD to share vital information with the DOJ. Because of Berger's actions, the al Qaeda attacks were pulled off when it is very likely that they could have been stopped. This effectively makes Berger an accomplice to the murders of 3,000 Americans.
And it was Sandy Berger who was caught sneaking incriminating documents, probably referring to the Able Danger operation, out of the National Archives just after DOD officials began to increase the 9/11 Commission's interest in counterterrorist intelligence-gathering activities during the Clinton administration. Without the introduction of those documents, Madeline Albright was free to make all the claims about the effectiveness of the Clinton administration that she wanted. Thanks to Berger, there was no evidence available to refute her claims, and the Clinton administration got a free pass when the 9/11 Commission released its report with no mention of the Able Danger operations that subsequently were proven to have taken place.
Clinton Foundation spokesman Jay Carson writes that "No reputable organization should dramatize 9-11 for a profit at the expense of the truth." Let the reader note Mr. Carson's use of the word "reputable." The clever addition of that word evidently excuses anyone in the Clinton administration from such accountability and restraint. Nice loophole there, Mr. Carson. But given all that we now know about the Clinton administration's criminal neglect in refusing to neutralize a known threat to American citizens, Albright and Berger certainly don't need Disney/ABC's help with looking bad. Along with Jamie Gorelick and Janet Reno, Albright and Berger will be forever remembered as the four people most responsible for allowing the al Qaeda attack to proceed from planning to horrific execution.
Posted by ERNurse at September 07, 2006 08:31 PM | Email ThisThe hypocrisy is staggering.
Posted by: Jeff B. on September 7, 2006 09:14 PMYou need to do some more research on the efforts that the Clinton Adminstration attempted to Kill Bin Laden as you were all screaming "Wag the Dog".
And the warnings given to Bush before he took office, about him that wer ignored, as they ramped up for Iraq.
You seem to forget that this happen during the Drunk cowboys administration. with plenty of warnings.
For god sakes I hope you are not really an ER Nurse. very scary to think that fools such as you are in charge of any life and death situation.
1) These same people had NO problem with Michael Moore totally taking footage out of context and making up stuff far worse than we'd ever in the ABC movie. I don't recall President Bush threatening Michael Moore with anything. He let free speech be free speech. I don't see that in play at all here with the Dems. They have no concept of this
whatsoever.
2) The Dems really goofed up on this one in making such a screechy commotion about it. I wasn't going to watch to movie originally, but after hearing so much about it I decided that I will watch it after all. I heard other people say the same thing! they should have kept their yaps shut, methinks.
Posted by: Michele on September 7, 2006 11:01 PMDanw. You may want to actually look at the 9/11 report where they actually document Clintons attempts to kill Bin Laden that where called off at the last minute do to the fear of political consequences and possible collateral damages. It in Chapter 4. Also, Bin Laden refers directly to Clintons pull out of Somalia (where I lost alot of good friends) as proof that America had become a paper tiger. This and all the other instances of CLintons lack of actually taking the fight to the terrorists (launching cruise missles at caves and asprin factories dont really work) are what gave Al Qaeda it's belief that they could actaully win a war against the US. Also, in case you didn't know this movie does show the failures of the Bush administration in the lead up to 9/11. It shows how terroirsm was not their first priority. So why should it be censored just to make the Clinton Administration look good? It's because the Dem's are worried that if the truth gets out there chances in November will be hurt.
Posted by: TrueSoldier on September 8, 2006 09:12 AM* January 25, 1993: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fired an AK-47 into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Virginia, killing two CIA employees.
* February 26, 1993: Islamic terrorists try to bring down the World Trade Center with car bombs. They failed to destroy the buildings, but killed 6 and injured over 1000 people.
* March 12, 1993: Car bombings in Mumbai, India leave 257 dead and 1,400 others injured.
* July 18, 1994: Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 86 and wounds 300. The bombing is generally attributed to Hezbollah acting on behalf of Iran.
* July 19, 1994: Alas Chiricanas Flight 00901 is bombed, killing 21. Generally attributed to Hezbollah.
* July 26, 1994: The Israeli Embassy is attacked in London, and a Jewish charity is also car-bombed, wounding 20. The attacks are attributed to Hezbollah.
* December 11, 1994: A bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines Flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. It develops that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for the larger terrorist attack he is planning.
* December 24, 1994: In a preview of September 11, Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by Islamic terrorists who planned to crash the plane in Paris.
* January 6, 1995: Operation Bojinka, an Islamist plot to bomb 11 U.S. airliners over the Pacific Ocean, is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after a fire occurred in the apartment. Noted terrorists including Ramzi Yousef and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed are involved in the plot.
* June 14—June 19, 1995: The Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis, in which 105 civilians and 25 Russian troops were killed following an attack by Chechan Islamists.
* July—October, 1995: Bombings in France by Islamic terrorists led by Khaled Kelkal kill eight and injure more than 100.
* November 13, 1995: Bombing of OPM-SANG building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 7
* November 19, 1995: Bombing of Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan kills 19.
* January 1996: In Kizlyar, 350 Chechen Islamists took 3,000 hostages in a hospital. The attempt to free them killed 65 civilians and soldiers.
* February 25 - March 4, 1996: A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within 10 days.
* June 11, 1996: A bomb explodes on a train traveling on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya Line of the Moscow Metro, killing four and unjuring at least 12.
* June 25, 1996: The Khobar Towers bombing, carried out by Hezbollah with Iranian support. Nineteen U.S. servicemen were killed and 372 wounded.
* February 24, 1997: An armed man opens fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, United States, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from several countries. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine".
* November 17, 1997: Massacre in Luxor, Egypt, in which Islamist gunmen attack tourists, killing 62 people.
* January 1998: Wandhama Massacre - 24 Kashmiri Pandits are massacred by Pakistan-backed Islamists in the city of Wandhama in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
* February 14, 1998: Bombings by Islamic Jihadi groups at an election rally in the Indian city of Coimbatore kill about 60 people.
* August 7, 1998: Al Qaeda bombs U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000.
* August 31 – September 22, 1998: Russian apartment bombings kill about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.
* December 1998: Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb American and Israeli tourists in Jordan, and arrest 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots.
* December 14, 1998: Ahmed Ressam is arrested on the United States–Canada border in Port Angeles, Washington; he confessed to planning to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots.
* December 24, 1998: Indian Airlines Flight 814 from Kathmandu, Nepal to Delhi, India is hijacked by Islamic terrorists. One passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released in exchange for release of 4 terrorists.
* January 2000: The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks.
* August 8, 2000: A bomb exploded at an underpass in Pushkin Square in Moscow, killing 11 people and wounding more than 90.
* August 17, 2000: Two bombs exploded in a shopping center in Riga, Latvia, injuring 35 people.
* October 12, 2000: AL Qaeda bombs USS Cole with explosive-laden speedboat, killing 17 US sailors and wounding 40, off the port coast of Aden, Yemen.
Posted by: JCM on September 8, 2006 12:21 PMGood post. Wish I'd said it.
Posted by: ewaggin on September 8, 2006 06:59 PMIt is the only thing they know
It is the only thing they have to offer
It's the only platform they are running on.
The more it is wagged, the more the rabbid dog demohating party will be put to rest.
Posted by: GS on September 8, 2006 10:07 PMFired up Republican base. Check.
Solidify Dems as the party of intolerance. Check.
Solidify Dems as suppressors of free speech. Check.
Provide a timely talking point for Republican candidates. Check.
Further disgrace the Clinton name destroying Hillary's already flimsy chances at a run for President. Check.
Show ABC just how much untapped potential there is in more conservative programming. Check.
This was going to be a minor issue, largely a blow over. A mostly unwatched program. Now you'll have folks scouring the Internet file sharing sites and buying the DVD to find out what the comotion was about. But Dems are so arrogant, they never know when to keep quiet. I didn't think they could top Michael Moore in '04, but this is a fantastic effort.
I'm going to start right now with a prediction that Republicans keep control of the House and Senate.
Posted by: Jeff B. on September 8, 2006 11:00 PMThe Libs answer to protection from terrorism, is a Cigar in Clinton's presidential suite, or healthcare for everone.
I'll tell you this, you won't to need healthcare if the democraps are put in charge of terrorism...You'll need a burial plot!
Guaranteed!
Posted by: GS on September 9, 2006 02:52 AMSandy Berger stole Classified Documents from the National Archives.
You can call me anything you want, but the truth is that you have no defense for these people except to call names. Pretty sad, really.
Posted by: ERNurse on September 9, 2006 04:54 AMGood post - Someone should take this and post it over at HA.org just to stir up the moonbats like danw and his ilk and maybe some will see how stupid they look. My hope is that this pillories Hillary !
Posted by: KS on September 9, 2006 06:00 PMAs far as your crack about me being an actual ER nures is concerned: Yes, I am in fact an ER nurse.
You may even have met me during your sojourns with the Tent City when you ran out of your psych meds and needed a refill on the public dime. We get a lot of the Democrat voter base in my ER, especially around the third week of the month, after they've spent all your DSHS funds on Thinderbird. The DTs can be hell, huh?
Posted by: ERNurse on September 9, 2006 11:17 PMFriday afternoon release from the Senate (ever notice how Bush love to send bad news over the weekend)
IRAQ NO LINK TO AL QAEDA. But we have been telling you this for years.
You think because we want Bush to actually go after the real terrorists, we are not patriotic? That you think just trying to bomb a billion muslims back to the stoneage is the only solution, is ridiculous.
About Clinton. Is that always the only way you can protect this inept, crooked administration?
Clinton was Republican light anyway, he had to change to get into the money game.
But to say 9/11 was his fault?
Let's see what he actually tried to do.
http://www.makethemaccountable.com/myth/ClintonAndTerrorism.htm
PS ERNURSE because you and your Ilk only value money makers and "Producers". I am pretty sure I made more last month, than you have all year. Thank god you have a Union protecting you, or you would be living in a tent city. I'll be looking to pick up your home on a repo soon, when you bust the union, to save that $30.00 monthly charge.
PPS And those of you who are offended by a little profane language, get real and take a look at the coffins and wounded young people coming home from Iraq...now that is profanity.
"Profanity", danw, is thousands of innocent unborn babies dying for nothing every year, a "profanity" that the left seems perfectly content to live with.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on September 10, 2006 11:05 AMI don't care if you make a hundred times more than I do in a single day. It doesn't make you immune to death.
So I hope you have fun. By all means- enjoy yourself! Do whatever brings you your sense of fulfillment and satisfaction, whatever helps you to understand why you exist and who you exist for. Call your worldview whatever you like. I don't care.
But if, by chance, your world is intersected by some drunk that crosses into your lane; or you wake up with a kidney stone; or you have been puking your guts out for three days with some stomach bug and can barely crawl anymore; or if you feel that unique crushing pain in your chest that radiates down your left arm and into your jaw; or suddenly you can't seem to speak clearly or swallow and you start drooling, then you lose all bowel and bladder control, and your whole left side has gone numb...
And if by some chance you are brought to my ER for any of those reasons- or any other ER for that matter, you can be assured of this: all the money you make won't impress me or "my ilk" any more then than it impresses me now- which is to say, it doesn't. Your worldview, your profession, your political affiliation, your portfolio, the things you like to do, your habits (good or bad), what you think about Bush or Clinton or bin Laden or even what you think about me and "my ilk" won't mean a damn thing to me. Because when it boils down to the ABCs- Airway, Breathing, and Circulation, you are the same as anybody else on earth. You are only one synapse, one heartbeat away from your final end. And as superior as you like to think you are, you are still going to die, and you will still look to "my ilk"to keep that from happening.
Enjoy your day.
Posted by: ERnurse on September 10, 2006 02:45 PMAs 9-11-2006 has come we should all be thankful that we have had five years of peace in our borders and that is a wonderful success! I believe this success belongs to our men and women who work very hard to protect this country on our soil and abroad, including our President. We should be thankful for their committment.
Posted by: Andrew Roberts on September 10, 2006 09:18 PMNo; the point is to highlight the supreme arrogance, narcissism and moral cowardice of those people who are primarily responsible for creating America's vulnerability to the 9/11 outrage, and their thoroughly scandalous intent to cover up their duplicity through the outright threatening of censorship of a national network. Such behavior is worthy of a thousand posts- whatever it takes to call attention to the utter hypocrisy of these people- including the Democratic Party, who is responsible for the censorship threats.
I will not level blame at President Bush for 9/11 because he was saddled with the completely rotten intelligence and law enforcement system that Clinton left behind. There is no way that anyyears. 3,000 Americans paid for the Clinton administration's criminal negligence. Thousands more are paying with their lives to undo the damage to America's safety that Albright, Berger, Clarke, Reno, Tenet and Clinton are completely responsible for. No American should ever be allowed to forget the endless suffering for so many Americans that these people have caused.
Posted by: ERnurse on September 11, 2006 06:25 PM