Accusations Arise That ABC, Disney Mislead Viewers About 9/11 During Run-Up to Midterm Elections; U.S. Politics Today Offers Coverage

U.S. Newswire, September, 2006

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Scheduled to be aired on Sept. 10 and Sept. 11, ABC's "docudrama" about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has come under severe criticism by terrorism experts and a member of the 9-11 commission.

Many reports have shown that the miniseries is ripe with conservative propaganda, largely ignores Bush administration failures and misrepresents Clinton's counterterrorism policies, such as in made-up scenes depicting Clinton officials as undermining attempts to kill Osama bin Laden.

In another telling example, the series claims that the Washington Post ruined a valuable form of surveillance of bin Laden by disclosing that the U.S. was monitoring his cell phone calls, an accusation actually made by a different paper, the conservative Washington...

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