Hat tip to Allah for pulling together the edited and unedited versions of the controversial clip side-by-side. As he says:
They chopped quite a bit, but you still get the gist.
Sad to see ABC cave to Democrats’ intimidation, but once again thanks to the Internet, the world gets to see what the Democrats don’t want seen.
Update:
Ms.Underestimated has video of tonight’s Nightline, which seems to be a gathering of apologists trying to offset any damage the miniseries may have on the Clintonistas’ reputation.
ABC’s Nightline tonight after “Path to 9/11″ was a sham and a cover-up for the Clinton administration. What a load of crap! Is this another way ABC bowed to the Clinton’s legal team? Richard Clarke, shoving everything off onto George Tenet, for all the screwups that happened. Can you say “scattered, smothered and covered” alibis? Richard Clarke had the POWER to order Tenet to strike and he did not. He apparently has/had no balls, but that is a surprise to whom?
…and speaking of Richard Clarke (who by the way made the Iraq/al-Qaida connection back in 1998), here he is debunking the Democrats’ talking points regarding the Bush administration’s committment to fighting terrorism pre-9/11:
QUESTION: What is your response to the suggestion in the [Aug. 12, 2002] Time [magazine] article that the Bush administration was unwilling to take on board the suggestions made in the Clinton administration because of animus against the — general animus against the foreign policy?
CLARKE: I think if there was a general animus that clouded their vision, they might not have kept the same guy dealing with terrorism issue. This is the one issue where the National Security Council leadership decided continuity was important and kept the same guy around, the same team in place. That doesn’t sound like animus against uh the previous team to me.
JIM ANGLE: You’re saying that the Bush administration did not stop anything that the Clinton administration was doing while it was making these decisions, and by the end of the summer had increased money for covert action five-fold. Is that correct?
CLARKE: All of that’s correct.
