WRITE YOUR ABC AFFILIATE! PROTEST FAKE 9/11

Written by: Elizabeth Singley on Sep 6, 2006 11:48 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Democracy for Cumberland County

The evil orcs of the right are at it again. Just in time for the fall elections, ABC has snuggled up with utterly unscrupulous, well-placed, right-wing ideologists who have produced a fake account of 9/11 that tells outright lies about the Clinton Administration (note that I was not a Clinton fan, but this is ridiculous) and boosts the pathetic Bush Administration.

This is a misleading piece of fiction that is CONTRARY TO THE PUBLIC INTEREST -- the public being the owners of the airwaves ABC so casually uses to its own ends.

You know it's bad when Roger Cressey, former Chief of Staff to Bush's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board at the White House, said the following in an interview on last night's MSNBC's Scarborough Country program:

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SCARBOROUGH: Roger, let me begin with you. There are points of this docudrama that are more drama than fact. But talk about Bill Clinton and the central premise by ABC that he should have done more to get Bin Laden.

CRESSY: Joe, it's amazing, based on what I've seen so far is how much they've gotten wrong. They got the small stuff wrong such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed instructing Ahmed Rassam to carry out the millenium attacks. Then they got the big stuff wrong, this fantasy about how we had a CIA officer and the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Massoud looking at Bin Laden and they breathlessly call the White House to say we need to take him out and the White House said no. I mean it's sheer fantasy. So, if they want to critique the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, based on fact, I think that's fine. But what ABC has done here is something straight out of Disney and fantasyland. It's factually wrong. And that's shameful.

SCARBOROUGH: But at the same time, doesn't history show that Bill Clinton had several opportunities to go after bin Laden, but the President and his cabinet were afraid to do so because they may offend some people in the Arab world?

CRESSY: Actually, Joe, that had nothing to do with it. If you read the 9/11 Commission report, it makes it very clear. In most of those cases, George Tenet, the Director of the CIA, said because there was single source intelligence it was his recommendation to the President not to take the shot. There was never a case where we had a clear shot at Bin Laden and the decision to take it wasn't made.
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Especially with an election in the wings that will predominantly be about foreign policy and national security, the lies and other inaccuracies in this account could misinform voters about the facts surrounding the events portrayed in this irresponsible "fake-umentary."

PROTEST LOUDLY TO YOUR LOCAL ABC AFFILIATE AND TELL THEM YOU'LL COMPLAIN TO THE PROGRAM'S SPONSORS AS WELL.

I am cross-posting this at several DFT sites.

Liz Singley
Kingston, TN

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