Clinton administration alumni, fearing the miniseries would highlight their flaccid response to the growing threat of Islamic extremism and tarnish their political legacy, pulled out all the stops to suppress it.
Want to relive season five of Paris Hilton’s reality show “The Simple Life?” No problem, it’s on DVD. The complete first season of Jane Curtin’s sitcom “Kate & Allie?” It’s just a click away on Amazon.com. Oliver Stone’s surreal 1993 miniseries “Wild Palms?” Get it on Netflix. Virtually any miniseries or TV show you can think of, from any season, no matter how insipid, forgettable, or obscure, is readily available and continues to earn profits (often inexplicably).
But you will look in vain for a DVD of the extraordinary and controversial Disney/ABC miniseries “The Path to 9/11.”
A $30+ million project that aired without sponsors on two September nights in 2006, “The Path to 9/11” dramatized the historical thread that connected 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.
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 – until an accusation of “conservative bias” (horrors!) on the part of the filmmakers quickly spun into liberal hysteria that the project was actually a “well-honed propaganda operation” on the part of a secretive, right-wing network-within-a-network.
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Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBQcoIQ61lY&feature=channel&list=UL
Part 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHWvcUGpWQY&feature=channel&list=UL
Part 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq0Q6cjnBgs&feature=channel&list=UL
Part 5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOCuyJF55p8&feature=channel&list=UL
Part 6:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud1FMWDRU2M&feature=channel&list=UL
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