ABC Won't Rerelease "Path to 9/11" Out of Fear of Clintons

The media is trying to make a big deal about Sarah Palin and some library books in Wasilla that were never banned or requested to be banned, but they're ignoring a censorship story of mammoth proportions:

THE suits at Disney-owned ABC are too chicken to re-air or release on DVD their $40 million docudrama that accused Bill Clinton of squandering many chances to capture Osama bin Laden before the Twin Towers attacks.

That's the charge of John Ziegler, director of a new ABC-bashing documentary titled "Blocking 'The Path to 9/11.' " It focuses on why ABC delayed airing and severely re-edited its ambitious miniseries "The Path to 9/11" in 2006 after a furious Clinton and his cronies strong-armed the network.

Ziegler alleges that ABC's grand plan was to re-air the show, which starred Harvey Keitel and Donnie Wahlberg, every year around 9/11 but dumped the idea in 2007, fearing that it would hurt Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations - and will now never air it again. He charges that Disney chief Robert Iger told shareholders that it was "simply a business decision" not to issue a DVD - an "odd declaration" because a home video would help recoup the company's $40 million investment.

"Disney caved and committed perhaps the most blatant, underreported and significant act of censorship in modern American history," says Ziegler. "What Disney actually did here was to take a dive on their own movie . . . They preferred the scenario of unilateral disarmament, not to mention throwing away $40 million, to rebutting and embarrassing the Clintons.

"Numerous entertainment organizations . . . pretend to defend free speech but have been shockingly silent on this issue, apparently for fear of appearing to protect 'conservatives,' " he adds, charging that it's "disgracing the memories of those who died on 9/11 and setting ourselves up for making the same mistakes again."

Reps for Disney and ABC had no comment, but one insider told us, "It's still a major hot potato for them."

In effect ABC just made a $40 million dollar donation to the Democrat party. Where are the stockholders in that company and why aren't they complaining that significant profits were just thrown away because of political correctness...or political fear?

I saw the miniseries when it was originally broadcast and it was rightfully tough on the Clintons and others in the Clinton Administration who refused to recognize the war that bin Laden had already declared on America, but that America wasn't yet willing to fight. It's a story that still needs to be told regardless of the political fallout.

Isn't it interesting how "brave" the media is when it comes to running shows that point fingers at Republicans?