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ABC’s movie The Path to 9/11, set to air Sunday and Monday night, misrepresents Bill Clinton’s pursuit of Osama bin Laden, the former president claims, and he is demanding that the network cancel the show if changes aren’t made.
According to a letter obtained by the New York Post, Clinton refutes several fictionalized scenes that indicate he was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky scandal to focus on bin Laden. Other scenes show a top adviser pulling CIA operatives just before they successfully bag bin Laden and portray former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright as having warned Pakistani officials that a strike was coming.
The letter, written by Bruce Lindsey, head of the Clinton Foundation and Douglas Bond, a top lawyer in Clinton’s office, claims: “The content of this drama is factually and incontrovertibly inaccurate and ABC has the duty to fully correct all errors or pull the drama entirely.”
ABC spokesman Jonathan Hogan pointed out that the miniseries is a “dramatization, not a documentary, drawn from a variety of sources, including the 9/11 commission report, other published materials and personal interviews.”
The Path to 9/11 is just one of several shows that will be aired to mark the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
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