THE CLINTONISTAS are freaking out Sandy Berger is quoted, though his pants aren't mentioned. It seems to me that all this protest is merely drawing attention to the subject of Clinton's treatment of terrorism, which had previously not gotten a lot. They'd be wiser to stay silent, I think.In addition to several members of the House and a member of the 9/11 Commission, the "Clintonistas" ranks have now swelled to include a former Bush adminstration official, who blasted the movie last night on Scarborough (via Kos):
SCARBOROUGH: Roger, let me begin with you. There are points of this docudrama that are more drama than fact. But talk about Bill Clinton and the central premise by ABC that he should have done more to get Bin Laden.CRESSY: Joe, it's amazing, based on what I've seen so far is how much they've gotten wrong. They got the small stuff wrong such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed instructing Ahmed Rassam to carry out the millenium attacks. Then they got the big stuff wrong, this fantasy about how we had a CIA officer and the Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Massoud looking at Bin Laden and they breathlessly call the White House to say we need to take him out and the White House said no. I mean it's sheer fantasy. So, if they want to critique the Clinton administration and the Bush administration, based on fact, I think that's fine. But what ABC has done here is something straight out of Disney and fantasyland. It's factually wrong. And that's shameful.
As is Putz, for suggesting that it's better to just "stay silent" than correct the record about political media -- only in instances when they reflect poorly on Clinton, apparently.
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