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The Path to 9/11

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I appreciated this program and would buy it in a minute, but I am afraid the Clintons will never allow it to come out on DVD.
I would like to see the unedited (pre Clinton strong-arming) version.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE MAKE THIS AVAILABLE ON DVD. It is so powerful...it captivates the viewer from the start. Important stuff!!!!

This docudrama was masterfully and powerfully made, and beautifully set. I am sure that liberties were taken with dialogue and compacting events, but nonetheless the viewer got a real sense of how the FBI, CIA and executive branch reacted to the growing terrorist threats against America. And, despite living in NYC during most of the time period covered by the film and following international news reasonably closely, the film really brought home to me as an individual how the Al Qaeda threat escalated while America essentially ignored it. It also brought home that America was very lucky several times as plots failed or were foiled. The film is particularly powerful when considered against the current scene of Iran's provocations in the last year (nuclear development, anti-Israel and anti-American rhetoric and threats, support of Hezbollah) and the Iraq Study Group's utterly naive view that Iran and Syria, long-time provocateurs and supporters of anti-Western terrorism, can in any way be partners.

I hope that this film is made available soon in DVD format. I fear, however, that it won't be for partisan political reasons.

I saw Part 1, and it was beautifully done both from cinematic and historic perspectives. The main problem is that our station here in San Diego was so lame that they put a football game on instead of Part 2. Being able to get the enitre show on DVD would be great, so how do we put pressure on the network to cough it up?

Absolutely brilliant.

It pulls no punches. It leaves no stone unturned. And it was not about heaping the blame entirely on the Clinton administration. The very end text of the movie discusses the poor grades given by the 9/11 commission, as to how its recommendations have (not) been implemented. Can't blame that one on Clinton. And Condoleeza Rice hardly comes off great from the movie, being one of the individuals in government "changing the role" of Harvey Keitel's character, the late CIA director John O' Neil. The detractors of this movie from Clinton's administration were completely missing the point. This is a wake up call to ALL of us. And whether they like it or not, they made mistakes as well.

The facts are accurate from the 9/11 Commission report. It is beautifully shot, using close up and confined camera angles to really make you feel like you are there, like the action is all up close. And the ultimate tragedy of it is that it is true. John O Neil died at the WTC, after working so hard for so many years to arrest the people who murdered him and 3,000 Americans.

But the reaction to this movie demonstrated brilliantly where we are at in this country with regards to terrorism. We put partisan politics and bickering ahead of what is best for our nation. This movie should have rightly been heralded as the wake up call we needed, five years after the tragedy. But instead, it was "Don't blame me, blame the other guy." Bureaucrats, yes on the right as well as the left, refuse to take responsibility for their actions.

I fear that it will take another tragedy, on a far worse scale than 9/11, to wake us up. And that, is the final pity of it all.

From an LA Times article dated 9-6-07 there is this quote from miniseries writer Cyrus Nowrasteh about ABC not releasing this miniseries on DVD.

"said he was told by a top executive at ABC Studios that "if Hillary weren't running for president, this wouldn't be a problem.""

The Clintons don't want The Path to 9/11 out, the liberal media doesn't want this out, George Soros doesn't want it out, the liberal Hollywood elites don't want this movie out and just about everyone that calls themselves a democrat also wants to keep this DVD under wraps. Yet they see no problem with the propaganda films from Al Gore and Michael Moore that trash America and anyone Conservative.

Amazon will get will PERMISSION from the liberals to go ahead and release The Path to 9/11 AFTER the 08 elections so as not to remind Americans about the 8 years of the Clinton administration that preceded it.

What ever happened to free speech? O! Yah America is the land of free speech for all except Christians and Conservatives. I keep forgetting.

I just think it was an excellent film, engaging, accurate to me(even if they said it was a "Dramatization", I guess to cover their backs") very well put together, edited and directed. Unfortunately, ABC (Disney) got scared after the probably pandemonium they got after broadcasting in it (you know everybody involved in this picture are powerful).
Let's just hope justice, "free speech", liberty etc...prevails.

ABC, under pressure from the Clintons, is delaying the DVD release of "the Path to 9/11." Originally supposed to be released last January, the date was pushed back to last March, then to August, and now there is no release date. The producer is frustrated and airing out his frustrations with the national news media. An unnamed ABC executive told him the video is not being released because "Hillary's running for president."

With all the trash and garbage available out there I can only laugh that this thought provoking dvd has been squelched by the elites. Could it be that it is dead on in its portrayal???