AMERICAN THINKER
by Howard Hyde
April 10, 2015
….Imagine for moment a world in which any of the movies Flight 93, World Trade Center, Zero Dark 30, or American Sniper had been produced but never screened in theaters, because some cabal of politicians had objected and seen to it that the film would be censored, censured, and suppressed. Stop imagining. That is exactly what happened to the prime-time ABC miniseries ‘The Path to 9/11’. This film is arguably the most significant of the post-9/11 set, as it connects the dots between the first World Trade Center attack of 1993, the failure to neutralize Osama Bin Laden despite multiple opportunities, and the ultimate tragedy of September 11, 2001. Yet this 5-hour docudrama was aired only once in September 2006, with edits and cuts demanded by partisan censors, and then buried under orders of Robert Iger, president of the parent company, Disney…The reason for the unprecedented censorship may be summarized in two words: The Clintons. The Clinton machine, jealous both for Bill’s legacy and Hillary’s 2008 White House ambitions, saw the film as a threat, and mobilized all of its heavy artillery to make Disney/ABC offers it couldn’t refuse…READ MORE