ABC = Liars

In other 9/11 film news...

ABC is soon to air it's "docudrama" Path to 9/11 and there's a lot of heat over this movie.

The reason:
It's full of shit.
The film is full of inaccuracies but ABC claims:

"The Path to 9/11″ is not a documentary of the events leading to 9/11. It is a dramatization, drawn from a variety of sources including the 9/11 Commission Report, other published materials, and personal interviews. As such, for dramatic and narrative purposes, the movie contains fictionalized scenes, composite and representative characters and dialogue, and time compression.

Not a documentary? A dramatization? Fictionalized scenes and dialogue? What the fuck?

This isn't a story about a kid who was trapped out at sea, on a desert island and we don't really know what happened to him, except that we found his journal so we made a movie about what his last days may have been like. No. This is the story about something that really fucking happened. Something that affected people's lives all over the world. Something that has reshaped each and every one of our everyday lives in this country and many other countries. This was an event that set into motion an onslaught of new laws, new policies, new crimes, new lies, new wars and new death.

The point is, you don't fucking fictionalize an event that changed the course of world history. You don't "improvise" dialogue by people supposed to have played a major roll in the 9/11 timeline.

Another quote:

ABC is marketing its docudrama, The Path to 9/11, as “based on the 9/11 Commission Report.” It is defending the films multiple inaccuracies by claiming some scenes were “drawn from a variety of sources.”

But yesterday, writer and avowed conservative Cyrus Nowrasteh admitted that the films most controversial scene was based on nothing at all. Nowrasteh told a right-wing radio station that the scene was “improvised.” From the New York Times:

Mr. Berger’s character is also seen abruptly hanging up during a conversation with a C.I.A. officer at a critical moment of a military operation. In an interview yesterday with KRLA-AM in Los Angeles, Cyrus Nowrasteh, the mini-series’ screenwriter and one of its producers, said that moment had been improvised.

“Sandy Berger did not slam down the phone,” Mr. Nowrasteh said. “That is not in the report. That was not scripted. But you know when you’re making a movie, a lot of things happen on set that are unscripted. Accidents occur, spontaneous reactions of actors performing a role take place. It’s the job of the filmmaker to say, ‘You know, maybe we can use that.’ ”

Nowrasteh’s attitude appears completely inconsistent with ABC Entertainment President Steve McPherson. In promotional materials accompanying the film, McPherson said, “When you take on the responsibility of telling the story behind such an important event, it is absolutely critical that you get it right.”

Additionally:

FBI Agent Who Consulted On Path to 9/11 Quit Halfway Through Because "They Were Making Things Up."
James Bamford, an author and journalist who has written about security issues, appeared on MSNBC to discuss “The Path to 9/11.” Bamford revealed that an FBI agent who worked as a consultant to the film quit halfway through production of the mini-series because he believed the writers and producers were “making things up.” [watch the video here].

Disgusting.