RIGHT SPEAK: The 9/11 Miniseries the Left Wouldn’t Let You See: And still won't (WATCH HERE)

The 9/11 Miniseries the Left Wouldn’t Let You See

And still won't.

I was glad to see that journalist John Miller published a Wall Street Journal opinion piece this week reminding Americans of a miniseries that “some want us to forget,” as he put it. That show was the extraordinary and controversial The Path to 9/11, an ABC miniseries written and produced by writer/director Cyrus Nowrasteh*.

Aired across the nights of September 10th and 11th in 2006, and featuring stars like Harvey Keitel, Patricia Heaton, Amy Madigan, and Donnie Wahlberg, The Path to 9/11 dramatized the historical thread connecting the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, Islamic attacks on American interests throughout the ‘90s, and the terrorism of that fateful morning in 2001. The miniseries connected the dots for audiences more thoroughly and accurately than any Hollywood project before or since.

Prior to its premiere, the producers at ABC were so proud of the impending project that they had high hopes of airing Path every 9/11 anniversary and showing it in schools across this country as an engaging educational tool. “The idea was to portray the national-security lapses that allowed Osama bin Laden to deliver death and destruction to America,” writes Miller. “The hope was to keep the country alert and vigilant.”

That was before ABC sponsored a screening of a portion of the program in Washington, D.C. a couple of weeks prior to the premiere. Miller described the firestorm that erupted next:

Almost immediately, Democrats revolted. Harry Reid of Nevada, Chuck Schumer of New York, and three other senators sent a letter to Bob Iger, who was the CEO of Disney, which owns ABC. It warned him about “misinformation,” urged him “to cancel this broadcast,” and reminded him in the manner of extortionists who run a protection racket that ABC enjoys “a free broadcast license” from the government “to act as a trustee of the public airwaves serving in the public interest.”

Why the Democrat panic and threats? Because Clinton administration alumni feared the historically accurate docudrama would highlight their flaccid response to the growing threat of Islamic extremism in the ‘90s, tarnish their political legacy, and surface as an embarrassment to Hillary Clinton as she eyed the presidency herself.

Despite the fact that many, if not most, of the people behind the program were Democrats (“I’m to the left of the left,” said Hans Proppe, a producer. “We were just telling history”), a ridiculous accusation of “conservative bias” on the part of the filmmakers quickly spun into leftist hysteria that the miniseries was – laughably – a “well-honed propaganda operation” on the part of a stealth cabal of Right-wingers. (How divorced from reality must one be to believe that conservatives 20 years ago, or even today, could conspire to get a nearly $40 million miniseries green-lit in Hollywood?).

The potential political fallout of the miniseries drove Clinton to near-apoplexy in an infamous interview with Chris Wallace. In her 2008 book Clinton in Exile, journalist Carol Felsenthal reported that he personally and privately phoned friend and supporter Iger and insisted that he stop the show. ABC ended up ordering last-minute edits, including of one scene in particular that terrified Clinton and his people. It depicted a CIA team and its Afghan allies with Osama bin Laden in its sights long before the 9/11 attacks and calling the White House for approval to make the hit, only to be denied the go-ahead (CIA bin Laden chief Michael Scheuer has stated that the Clinton administration missed out on as many as ten opportunities to nail bin Laden before 9/11).

The scene had been vetted, as all the scenes had been, by a battery of ABC lawyers. Despite this, the network flashed a disclaimer several times during the miniseries: “The movie is not a documentary. For dramatic and narrative purposes, the movie contains fictionalized scenes, composite and representative characters and dialogue, as well as time compression.” Three minutes ended up being cut from the broadcast. “We were censored,” said screenwriter Nowrasteh. As Miller points out, Path director David L. Cunningham said “It was cancelled before cancel culture was a thing.” The fact is that Nowrasteh himself was told privately by an ABC executive at the time of the controversy that “If Hillary weren’t running for President, this wouldn’t be a problem.” --->READ MORE HERE

WATCH BELOW or HERE: A television miniseries (both parts put together here for one main feature) on the events leading up to the U.S. terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.