Entries for September 11, 2006

I should say something about The Path to 9/11, the docudrama the first half of which was broadcast by ABC last night despite complaints from Bill Clinton and members of his administration. The second half will be broadcast tonight. I saw the screening of the first half at the National Press Club on August 23 and reported on it in this blog. The Clintonites attacked particularly strongly two scenes from the first half. The first is one in which National Security Adviser Sandy Berger is seen refusing to approve an attack on the al Qaeda camp in Afghanistan. The administration did indeed refuse to approve such an attack, but it didn't happen the way it did in the docudrama. Plans to attack the al Qaeda compound were sidelined earlier in the process.