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To: stockman_scott who wrote (202470)	9/10/2006 8:54:34 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Details how the Bush administration has aimed its propaganda not at a tactical deception of enemy combatants, but at the American people themselves. This violates long-standing and important American political traditions dating back to the Smith-Mundt Act, which was first passed by Congress in 1948 after lawmakers saw the harm that propaganda had done during Hitler’s reign in Germany." --------- Can ABC/Disney be held criminally liable if they didn't do a better job editing their trashomentary?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (202470)	9/10/2006 9:03:52 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

9/11 Commissioners Criticize ‘The Path to 9/11' ABC continues to advertise “The Path to 9/11? as “based on the 9/11 Commission report.” Path to 9/11 ABC banner The people who wrote the 9/11 Commission report disagree. Here’s a review of their comments — 9/11 Commissioner Jamie Gorelick: “I do have a problem if you make claims that the program is based upon the findings of the 9/11 Commission Report when the actors, scenes and statements in the series are not found in — and, indeed, are contradicted by — our findings.” [Link] 9/11 Commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste: Some scenes in the film “complete fiction. … The mischaracterizations tended to support the notion that the president [Clinton] was not attentive to anti-terrorism concerns. That was the opposite from what the 9/11 commission found.” [Link] 9/11 Commissioner Tim Roemer: In the scene, CIA operatives have Osama bin Laden cornered and are poised to capture or kill him until National Security Adviser Samuel Berger refuses to give the go-ahead. … [M]embers of the 9/11 Commission say none of that ever happened. ROEMER: There were plans, not an operation in place. Secondly, Osama bin Laden was never in somebody’s sights. Thirdly, on page 114 of our report we say George Tenet took responsibility for pulling the plug on that particular Tarnak Farms operation. [CNN, 9/7/06] 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey: “If you’re saying this is based on the 9/11 Commission report, there are substantial factual discrepancies. You need to get [them] out. … You can’t sit there as ABC and say, ‘Gee, we don’t have any responsibility. They should make a good faith effort to get this as close to the facts as possible.” [Link] 9/11 Commissioner Tom Kean: “I don’t think the facts are clear, whether it’s Sandy Berger, or whether it’s the head of the CIA, whether a line went dead. I think there are, I think there are a number of — they chose to portray it this way, but my memory of it is that it could have happened any number of ways.” [Link] Tell ABC to tell the truth about the 9/11 Commission report. thinkprogress.org