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Clinton, Other Democrats Assail ABC Docudrama 'Path to 9/11'
Clinton, Other Democrats Assail ABC Docudrama 'Path to 9/11'

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 9, 2006; Page A04


Democrats -- joined yesterday by former vice president Al Gore -- have mounted a campaign against the film, which depicts Clinton administration officials as undermining attempts to capture or kill bin Laden. Actor Harvey Keitel, who plays an FBI agent in the film, has joined the critics, telling CNN's "Showbiz Tonight" that he has had arguments with the filmmakers over elements that were "wrong."

"You can't put these things together, compress them and then distort the reality. . . . You cannot cross the line from a conflation of events to a distortion of the event," Keitel said. "Where we have distorted something, we made a mistake, and it should be corrected."

In another salvo, nine prominent historians -- including Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Sean Wilentz and Michael Kazin -- released a letter urging the film's cancellation. Calling ABC's explanation that the movie will be identified as a dramatization "disingenuous and dangerous," they said: "A responsible broadcast network should have nothing to do with the falsification of history, except to expose it."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/08/AR2006090801576.html?sub=AR
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