September 2, 2021 • 20 mins
RUSH: I told you people yesterday and the day before of a movie, a mini-series running on ABC on September 10th and 11th, called The Path to 9/11 and I told you that I have the DVDs. I also told you because I am in touch — I am poor when I’m in New York — I do not have a DVD player. I don’t. My apartment’s got an old media room in it, it’s got a laser disk player in it, but it doesn’t have a DVD. Well, actually it has a DVD player in it, but the TV doesn’t work. The projector does, and it’s the only room in the house where there’s a DVD player, and I can’t watch DVDs on computers because I can’t hear well through computer speakers. So I watched it. It’s four hours.
I have the DVDs right here. I’m holding them in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. I watched on the plane flight home last night. I watched part of the first one. I had to go to the airplane to watch it. I’ll tell you, this is called being in touch with the average American. I couldn’t watch a DVD at home. At any rate, let me just give you the upshot of this, because I’ve mentioned to you even without having seen it I know what it’s about. The Path to 9/11 essentially chronicles everything we know that happened in the nineties that prevented the capture of Osama bin Laden. It indicts the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright, Sandy Berger.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I told you people yesterday and the day before of
a movie a mini series running on ABC on September
tenth and eleventh called The Path to nine eleven. And
I told you that I have the DVDs. I also
told you because I am in touch, I am poor.
When I'm in New York, I do not have a
DVD player. Um so, I was, I don't My My
(00:22):
apartment's got an old inter media room in it. That no,
it's got a laser disc player in it, but it
doesn't have a DVD. Well, well, actually it has a
DVD player in it, but the TV doesn't work, the
projector doesn't and it's it's the only room in the house,
or there's a DVD player. And I can't watch DVDs
on computers because I can't hear well through computer speakers.
(00:44):
Um so I watched there. It's four hours. I have
the DVDs right, I'm holding them my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
I watched on the plane flight home last night. I
watched the part of the first one. I had to
go to the airplane to watch it. Because this is
called being in touch with the average American. I couldn't
(01:04):
watch a DVD at home what at any rate, let
me just give you the upshot of this, because I've
I've mentioned to you even without having seen it, I
know what it's about. The Path to nine eleven essentially
chronicles everything we know that happened in the nineties that
prevented the capture of Osama bin Lawden. It indicts the
(01:25):
Clinton administration, Madeline Albright, Sandy Burger, I it it is
just devastating to the Clinton administration. I it talks about
how we had chances to capture Ben Lauden in specific detail,
which I will get to in just a moment. That's
not the point I mentioned to you yesterday to day before.
These days are running together that and a friend of
(01:48):
mine did this is the first name is Cyrus uh
And and Cyrus has got some other film credits. He
took it at Washington middle of last week and screened
it for people, and it caused nearly bloody up roar
where they showed it. Richard ben Vanis went up in
Cyrus's face and told him it was it was disgusting.
This film was disgusting. It caused all kinds of havoc,
(02:10):
and that led to the creation of efforts to try
to get this program banned, UH put pressure on ABC
to get it canceled and not running. So forth. It
also had a lot of people in the room that
loved it. There were many people Michael Baron saw it.
A lot of people were in the screening there and
loved it. Here is what is happening today. Bill Clinton
(02:32):
himself is going to call Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney,
and demand or ask that this mini series The Past
to nine eleven be re edited and re cut so
as not to depict Bill Clinton and his administration as
they are currently uh portrayed in this uh in this
(02:57):
mini series. Bill Clinton him himself is going to call
Bob Igor uh and and this is uh, this is
not breaking news. This uh this I got the email
on this last night. And there have been some local
hosts in California who have been uh talking about this.
But there is a huge movement of foot from inside
(03:18):
the Clinton administration uh to put pressure on ABC uh
to get this thing recut, re edited, if if not,
if not more, Uh the very powerful players obviously UH
much higher than just Richard ben Veniste uh and so forth. Uh.
You know, folks, the whole nine eleven Commission. If you
(03:39):
can go back and look at these um things that
we we know now, the Clinton administration's ability to camouflage
history to rewrite it is just amazing. Look at who
they got on the nine eleven Commission. They got Jamie Garreli,
who authored The Wall, and this mini series explains the
Wall and gives illustrations of fact of how it hurt
(04:00):
our ability to capture Osama bin Lad. Now get to
that in just a second. They had they had Gerrelic
on there. They had been Venice, who was a partisan
hack lawyer from the Watergate days, and Tim Romer, who
was a Democrat from Indiana. And that was to ensure
that the Clinton administration was protected, uh, and so that
(04:21):
the top structural explanation for intelligence failure was whitewashed. The
final report of the nine eleven Commission is a particular
disgrace in that regard. Uh. They they had Sandy Burglar.
To this day, we have we have we've never really
been told what classified documents Sandy Burglar purloined and destroyed
(04:42):
and maybe put back in the National Archives while he
was helping prep Clinton for his nine eleven Commission testimony.
Remember we heard Bush had to take Cheney in there
because he couldn't do it on his own. And he
was in there in Cheney and some lawyers and Clinton
by he went in myself. It was masterful, as we
find that Clint was in there with Bruce Lindsay and
(05:03):
other lawyers as well. All of this that we heard
was a was a smoke screen. I don't understand why
the Bush administration, the Department of Justice gave Burglar the
sweetheart deal of the century then suppressed all the evidence
involved in his in his action. Like I asked at
the time, can you imagine if if Condoleeza Rice had
(05:25):
pled guilty to a misdemeanor mishandling and classified information, the
media sitting silent about it. Uh? Anyway, the reason the
Clint administration keeps doing this, the reason they keep engaging
in their camouflage of history and their whitewashing of histories,
because they keep getting away with it. Why wouldn't you
keep doing it? If you keep getting away with it? Now,
(05:45):
take a brief break and come back and give you
some examples of what this mini series says and portrays.
It's the Path to nine eleven. Touchstone TV did it? Uh?
And it's nine o'clock out there on the left call.
So I don't know if Clinton's called already or not,
but he The word is that he is personally going
(06:06):
to call Bob Iger and do everything he can to
get this thing re edited recut. Uh. I wouldn't be
surprised if they if he asked him not to run it. Hey, Bob,
you know the thanks full of pace, pack full of lies.
I mean, I've heard about this. There's nothing this is.
It's crazy. The important thing here is that I don't
if I were ABC, I would love I would love
(06:28):
the the controversy because of the attention the publicity thing
is getting. You don't know if they're got to look
at it that way. If they, if they demanded it
be re edited and recut, the whole world's gonna know
that Bill Clinton was able to tell ABC what to
do and what not to do with some of its programming.
So you know, ABC is gonna be a little bit
(06:48):
of a tight spot no matter what they do here.
But it's I would think that, uh they've had to
clear this already, uh for it to have been put
on new schedule. Let me just give you as I said,
haven't I go to watch the whole thing. It's four
hours and I had a chance to watch a little
bit of a flying home last night from from New York.
(07:08):
There is an unbelievable scene, well unbelievable, amazing scene, uh sequence.
Actually it shows the CIA and the Afghanistan Northern Alliance
surrounding Bin Laden's house in Afghanistan. They are on the verge.
This is this is during the Clinton administration. This is
(07:31):
long before eleven, which is the point of the of
the mini series. How do we get there? So, the CIA,
the Northern Alliance UH, surrounding the house where Bin Laden
is in Afghanistan or on the verge of capturing. But
they need final approval from the Clinton administration in order
to proceed. So they phoned Washington. Uh, they phoned the
(07:54):
White House. Clinton and his senior staff refused to give
authorization for the capture of Bin Laden because they're afraid
of political fallout if the mission should go wrong and
if civilians were harmed. Sandy Burglar essentially tells the c
I a team in Afghanistan if they want to capture
(08:14):
Bin Laden, they're gonna have to do it themselves without
any official authorization. Uh. In that way their next would
be on the line, not his and not Clinton's. Now,
the CIA agent in this is portrayed as being astonished,
Uh are you kidding he's He asked Burger over and over,
is it really what you guys want? Uh. Burger then
(08:37):
doesn't answer after giving his first admonition, you guys go
in there on your own. If you go in, we're
not sanctioning this, We're not approving this. And and Burger
just hangs up on the agent after not answering any
of his questions. So the c I, a team and
in ordin alliance of the Afghanistan people are just they're just,
I mean, they're right there. As it's portrayed, uh. In
(09:00):
the mini series give up. They abandoned the whole mission.
And not long after that that been Laden and al
Qaeda bomb the U. S embassies in Tanzania and Kenya,
killing over two hundred and twenty men, women and children,
and also wounded over four thousand. There's also a scene
(09:21):
that I saw in which the CIA has crucial information
identifying some of the nine eleven hijackers in advance of
nine eleven, but the CIA refuses to share the information
with the FBI. Because of the wall that was erected
by Jamie Guerrelic and others to prevent information sharing between
(09:44):
government agencies. So the c i A is depicted here
as sitting in a meeting with the FBI. John O'Neil
is present, showing the FBI surveillance photos of terrorism suspects,
some of whom will later turn out to be the
nine eleven hijackers. The CIA asks the FBI for help
in identifying the guys and the pictures, but refuses to
(10:06):
give the FBI any of the information they have on
who the men are. John O'Neill protests that it's impossible
for the FBI to help the c i A identify
these guys if they won't provide any information whatsoever on them.
So Neil tells the FBI to keep the photos so
they can at least work on them. A SEI becomes
hostile to O'Neil takes the pictures back. Now O'Neill, as
(10:29):
you recall, tragically dies in the nine eleven attacks in
part because agencies like the CIA refused to share crucial
information like this. Um I'll tell you that seems like
these um uh really challenge what is the prevailing liberal
(10:51):
mindset by showing that the Patriot Acts, information sharing and
surveillance provisions are in fact crucial to the safety of
the country and political correness and bureaucratic inefficiency our Islamic
Terrorism's greatest friend. This this thing is just incredible and
it's you know, you watch it, not guys, if you
get to see it uncut. I'm loth to predict what
(11:15):
ABC will do midst mounting pressure from Bill Clinton and
others who uh going today to call Bob Iger at
ABC to demand some of the stuff be edited out.
I don't know what specifically, but uh, they're not happy
about this. Just this, this caused a real ruckus at
the screening, the private screening in Washington, uh last week
(11:37):
of a week before last. But when you watch this,
when you see it, none of it will surprise you.
I mean if you're a regular listener to this program,
because this is stuff that we have been told and
we've known for the longest time. What surprises us is
the whitewash of all this and how they were so
successful at doing it at the nine eleven commission. Clinton
(11:59):
is uh, you know, he's on tape talking about how
the buddies at news Max have this tape. He's making
a speech somewhere in Long Island. Maybe he was Canada,
I'm not sure where, but he was talking about how
they had been Ladden, but they couldn't move on him.
We know the studentese offered him a bunch of times.
Uh this episode in Afghanistan, the CIA and the Northern
Alliance surrounding men Ladden. The administration wouldn't give the go ahead.
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And it's amazing to watch something that that in the
in the what we call the mainstream media, that that
reflects accurately what we believe, what we know to have happened.
We're I'm so unused to seeing that. I'm so I'm
so used to seeing a liberal agenda in everything. Uh
So you're not surprised by what you see because you
(12:43):
know it. I wasn't surprised because this is the version
of events that I believe happened. And then I know
to be trying know the wall was erected. We know
it was Ashcroft read the memo read at the nine
eleven commission, hearing we know all of this, he just
don't expect to see it. And that's that's the pleasant
surprise watching it. Here is a quote from from Cyrus,
who was a friend of mine who produced and wrote
(13:04):
The Path to nine eleven. There's a review of the film,
by the way, at at front page dot com David
Horowitz website. This many series is not just about the
tragedy and events of nine eleven. It dramatizes how we
got there, going back eight years to the first attack
on the World Trade Center and dealing with the Al
Qaeda strikes against US embassies and forces in the nineties,
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the political lead up, the hatching of the terrorist plots, etcetera.
We see the heroes on the ground, like FBI agent
John O'Neil and others who after the ninety three attack
felt sure the terrorists would strike the World Trade Center again.
It also dramatizes the frequent opportunities the administration had in
the nineties to stop Bin Laden in his tracks, but
(13:46):
he lacked the will to do so. We also revealed
the day by day lead up of clues and opportunities
in two thousand one, right up to the day of
the nine eleven attacks. This is a terror thriller as
well as a history lesson. I think people will be
engaged and in life. Uh, it illustrates the you know,
the the big problem in the administration everybody what was
not Monica Lewinsky. The big problem was what the Lewinsky
(14:11):
circumstance with Clinton caused to be ignored and not dealt with.
And of course there are reasons other than Lewinsky as well.
The Clinton administration simply didn't want to tackle big things.
They were happy for the nineties to be thought of
as a happy, go lucky, care free time where there
were no threats because, of course Bill Clinton was loved universally,
(14:31):
adored universally around the world. Uh, economy was going great
guns and all through the nineties we had repeated terrorist
attack after repeated terrorist attack with no action taken, uh
to stop them. Now, I don't know what Bob Iger's
going to say if Clinton does call him, which UH,
(14:54):
believe me, last night that was and I have this
I'm good at Thori said, not gossip. Last night. Clinton
was intending to call today, Bob eager to get him
to edit the thing, to recut it in certain ways.
I don't know how you do that without no time
to go in and refilm things. But at any rate,
if I were Bob Iger, and I'm not, uh, you
(15:15):
know what I would say if Bill Clinton does call me, Hey, Bob,
I've heard about this thing you're running up. Some of
my friends are saying this it's a pack full of lives,
Bob is it is packed full of them? I mean,
I mean we did our best way, never worked hard
or anything of my life. And you know that, Bob.
I kept you briefly on all this, and I supported
you when you wanted to be Uisner's replacement. We all
though Eisner was full of it. And I'm very much
(15:36):
happy that you're in your job right now. But I
gotta tell you, Bob is a b S is not
gonna help ab see whatsoever. All Right, If I'm Eiger,
I say, Mr President, I understand all that. But if
you're so upset about this, could you show me where
it's wrong? Could you? Could you sort of prove to
me that what's in this is not accurate? Um? If
(15:59):
you can do that, then yeah. But I can't just
do this because you want me to, since everybody now
knows you're called me anyway, if I order this thing redone,
I'm gonna look like a suck puppet of the Clinton administration,
and I'm trying to establish my own identity here as
the brand new CEO of ABC and Disney's like, I
(16:19):
don't know what I could if Mr President, you can
prove to me that that that that the charge has
made this thing and that the evidence here is really wrong,
and I'd be glad to have them redo it. But
I don't think the Clinton administration wants to do that,
because I don't. I don't think they can. If they could,
they would have done it long ago. But the nine
eleven Committee was nothing more than camouflage. It was nothing
(16:42):
more than a in fact, you know what the word
for it was to get Grilic and Tim Romer and
Ben Venice on the nine eleven Commission. They were censors.
What what Clinton wants ABC to do is censor certain things.
Now Lenton could offer evidence that what Cyrus has put
(17:02):
together here is bs. They let him do so. But
they would have done it up to now if they could.
They wouldn't have had to have Sandy Burglar sneaking into
the National Archives, walking out of there with documents and
his pants and his socks or whatever, and then walking
back in and as I say, who knows what he
put back in. Everybody was focused on what he took
(17:24):
out of there. I was, frankly a little bit more
interested in in what he put in there. Uh, National Archives,
the quote unquote historical record. So anyway, I UM, I
hope this thing stands as is. It's just brilliantly done
and it's it's it's it's uh, it's not a docu drama,
(17:47):
but it's a it's a mini series. It's a movie,
but it's historically based and as as Cyrus describes it,
it is history lesson, it's entertaining, it's it's terrifying. Uh.
Danny Wahlberg is in it to Harvey Kiteles and it
get some major actors in this thing, so it's um,
it's it's not some phony put together things using footage
(18:10):
in it, but I mean it's it's written based on
the historical record. Gail cell phone call from Texas. You're
up first on open line Friday. Hello, Hi, thank you
for taking my call. Thank you. Hey, I'm here with
my husband. We're driving through Texas listening to you, and
thought came to our mind, if ABC won't show the
documentary uncut, perhaps you Rush could use the power of
(18:33):
the e I B network as a place where we
twenty million listeners could purchase the CD and get the
uncut version. Well, the you know, it's an interesting question.
I Uh, we don't own it. Uh, this is this
is a Touchstone Television that did this, which is a
division of Disney. Well, but you know, lots of people,
I'm sure you could work something out. Well. I am
(18:58):
so flattered and moved by your by your confidence. Uh,
it'll be interesting to see what does happen with this
and if there does become an alternate way to uh
to distribute it. But if Touchdone wants to bury it,
they can. Now I should tell you that I don't
want to get the wrong idea of people that they're
standing by it now the Clinton phone call, I have
(19:20):
no idea how this is gonna go, but they've been
pressured since a week and a half ago, folks. I mean,
there are people are gonna take out ads against this thing,
trying to discredit it. A lot of Lib Democrats who
saw this at the screening in Washington were just outraged
by it, as you can well imagine their whole lives
during service in the Clinton administration and in the years since,
(19:43):
has been to cover up the lack of action in
this area taken by this administration and to try to
present it as just the opposite of what happened. Uh.
The Clinton administration has forever been in search of a legacy.
It has been doing everything it can to try to
come up with a legacy. H. And this involves the
(20:08):
massaging of news, the censorship of certain things. UH. And
it's uh, you know, I think it's it's quite uh
telling that they now upset about this, because this this
is going to, if it airs, cause people to think
about everything they've heard about nine eleven from the nine
eleven Commission and from the and from the drive by
(20:31):
media
I told you people yesterday and the day before of
a movie a mini series running on ABC on September
tenth and eleventh called The Path to nine eleven. And
I told you that I have the DVDs. I also
told you because I am in touch, I am poor.
When I'm in New York, I do not have a
DVD player. Um so, I was, I don't My My
(00:22):
apartment's got an old inter media room in it. That no,
it's got a laser disc player in it, but it
doesn't have a DVD. Well, well, actually it has a
DVD player in it, but the TV doesn't work, the
projector doesn't and it's it's the only room in the house,
or there's a DVD player. And I can't watch DVDs
on computers because I can't hear well through computer speakers.
(00:44):
Um so I watched there. It's four hours. I have
the DVDs right, I'm holding them my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
I watched on the plane flight home last night. I
watched the part of the first one. I had to
go to the airplane to watch it. Because this is
called being in touch with the average American. I couldn't
(01:04):
watch a DVD at home what at any rate, let
me just give you the upshot of this, because I've
I've mentioned to you even without having seen it, I
know what it's about. The Path to nine eleven essentially
chronicles everything we know that happened in the nineties that
prevented the capture of Osama bin Lawden. It indicts the
(01:25):
Clinton administration, Madeline Albright, Sandy Burger, I it it is
just devastating to the Clinton administration. I it talks about
how we had chances to capture Ben Lauden in specific detail,
which I will get to in just a moment. That's
not the point I mentioned to you yesterday to day before.
These days are running together that and a friend of
(01:48):
mine did this is the first name is Cyrus uh
And and Cyrus has got some other film credits. He
took it at Washington middle of last week and screened
it for people, and it caused nearly bloody up roar
where they showed it. Richard ben Vanis went up in
Cyrus's face and told him it was it was disgusting.
This film was disgusting. It caused all kinds of havoc,
(02:10):
and that led to the creation of efforts to try
to get this program banned, UH put pressure on ABC
to get it canceled and not running. So forth. It
also had a lot of people in the room that
loved it. There were many people Michael Baron saw it.
A lot of people were in the screening there and
loved it. Here is what is happening today. Bill Clinton
(02:32):
himself is going to call Bob Iger, the CEO of Disney,
and demand or ask that this mini series The Past
to nine eleven be re edited and re cut so
as not to depict Bill Clinton and his administration as
they are currently uh portrayed in this uh in this
(02:57):
mini series. Bill Clinton him himself is going to call
Bob Igor uh and and this is uh, this is
not breaking news. This uh this I got the email
on this last night. And there have been some local
hosts in California who have been uh talking about this.
But there is a huge movement of foot from inside
(03:18):
the Clinton administration uh to put pressure on ABC uh
to get this thing recut, re edited, if if not,
if not more, Uh the very powerful players obviously UH
much higher than just Richard ben Veniste uh and so forth. Uh.
You know, folks, the whole nine eleven Commission. If you
(03:39):
can go back and look at these um things that
we we know now, the Clinton administration's ability to camouflage
history to rewrite it is just amazing. Look at who
they got on the nine eleven Commission. They got Jamie Garreli,
who authored The Wall, and this mini series explains the
Wall and gives illustrations of fact of how it hurt
(04:00):
our ability to capture Osama bin Lad. Now get to
that in just a second. They had they had Gerrelic
on there. They had been Venice, who was a partisan
hack lawyer from the Watergate days, and Tim Romer, who
was a Democrat from Indiana. And that was to ensure
that the Clinton administration was protected, uh, and so that
(04:21):
the top structural explanation for intelligence failure was whitewashed. The
final report of the nine eleven Commission is a particular
disgrace in that regard. Uh. They they had Sandy Burglar.
To this day, we have we have we've never really
been told what classified documents Sandy Burglar purloined and destroyed
(04:42):
and maybe put back in the National Archives while he
was helping prep Clinton for his nine eleven Commission testimony.
Remember we heard Bush had to take Cheney in there
because he couldn't do it on his own. And he
was in there in Cheney and some lawyers and Clinton
by he went in myself. It was masterful, as we
find that Clint was in there with Bruce Lindsay and
(05:03):
other lawyers as well. All of this that we heard
was a was a smoke screen. I don't understand why
the Bush administration, the Department of Justice gave Burglar the
sweetheart deal of the century then suppressed all the evidence
involved in his in his action. Like I asked at
the time, can you imagine if if Condoleeza Rice had
(05:25):
pled guilty to a misdemeanor mishandling and classified information, the
media sitting silent about it. Uh? Anyway, the reason the
Clint administration keeps doing this, the reason they keep engaging
in their camouflage of history and their whitewashing of histories,
because they keep getting away with it. Why wouldn't you
keep doing it? If you keep getting away with it? Now,
(05:45):
take a brief break and come back and give you
some examples of what this mini series says and portrays.
It's the Path to nine eleven. Touchstone TV did it? Uh?
And it's nine o'clock out there on the left call.
So I don't know if Clinton's called already or not,
but he The word is that he is personally going
(06:06):
to call Bob Iger and do everything he can to
get this thing re edited recut. Uh. I wouldn't be
surprised if they if he asked him not to run it. Hey, Bob,
you know the thanks full of pace, pack full of lies.
I mean, I've heard about this. There's nothing this is.
It's crazy. The important thing here is that I don't
if I were ABC, I would love I would love
(06:28):
the the controversy because of the attention the publicity thing
is getting. You don't know if they're got to look
at it that way. If they, if they demanded it
be re edited and recut, the whole world's gonna know
that Bill Clinton was able to tell ABC what to
do and what not to do with some of its programming.
So you know, ABC is gonna be a little bit
(06:48):
of a tight spot no matter what they do here.
But it's I would think that, uh they've had to
clear this already, uh for it to have been put
on new schedule. Let me just give you as I said,
haven't I go to watch the whole thing. It's four
hours and I had a chance to watch a little
bit of a flying home last night from from New York.
(07:08):
There is an unbelievable scene, well unbelievable, amazing scene, uh sequence.
Actually it shows the CIA and the Afghanistan Northern Alliance
surrounding Bin Laden's house in Afghanistan. They are on the verge.
This is this is during the Clinton administration. This is
(07:31):
long before eleven, which is the point of the of
the mini series. How do we get there? So, the CIA,
the Northern Alliance UH, surrounding the house where Bin Laden
is in Afghanistan or on the verge of capturing. But
they need final approval from the Clinton administration in order
to proceed. So they phoned Washington. Uh, they phoned the
(07:54):
White House. Clinton and his senior staff refused to give
authorization for the capture of Bin Laden because they're afraid
of political fallout if the mission should go wrong and
if civilians were harmed. Sandy Burglar essentially tells the c
I a team in Afghanistan if they want to capture
(08:14):
Bin Laden, they're gonna have to do it themselves without
any official authorization. Uh. In that way their next would
be on the line, not his and not Clinton's. Now,
the CIA agent in this is portrayed as being astonished,
Uh are you kidding he's He asked Burger over and over,
is it really what you guys want? Uh. Burger then
(08:37):
doesn't answer after giving his first admonition, you guys go
in there on your own. If you go in, we're
not sanctioning this, We're not approving this. And and Burger
just hangs up on the agent after not answering any
of his questions. So the c I, a team and
in ordin alliance of the Afghanistan people are just they're just,
I mean, they're right there. As it's portrayed, uh. In
(09:00):
the mini series give up. They abandoned the whole mission.
And not long after that that been Laden and al
Qaeda bomb the U. S embassies in Tanzania and Kenya,
killing over two hundred and twenty men, women and children,
and also wounded over four thousand. There's also a scene
(09:21):
that I saw in which the CIA has crucial information
identifying some of the nine eleven hijackers in advance of
nine eleven, but the CIA refuses to share the information
with the FBI. Because of the wall that was erected
by Jamie Guerrelic and others to prevent information sharing between
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government agencies. So the c i A is depicted here
as sitting in a meeting with the FBI. John O'Neil
is present, showing the FBI surveillance photos of terrorism suspects,
some of whom will later turn out to be the
nine eleven hijackers. The CIA asks the FBI for help
in identifying the guys and the pictures, but refuses to
(10:06):
give the FBI any of the information they have on
who the men are. John O'Neill protests that it's impossible
for the FBI to help the c i A identify
these guys if they won't provide any information whatsoever on them.
So Neil tells the FBI to keep the photos so
they can at least work on them. A SEI becomes
hostile to O'Neil takes the pictures back. Now O'Neill, as
(10:29):
you recall, tragically dies in the nine eleven attacks in
part because agencies like the CIA refused to share crucial
information like this. Um I'll tell you that seems like
these um uh really challenge what is the prevailing liberal
(10:51):
mindset by showing that the Patriot Acts, information sharing and
surveillance provisions are in fact crucial to the safety of
the country and political correness and bureaucratic inefficiency our Islamic
Terrorism's greatest friend. This this thing is just incredible and
it's you know, you watch it, not guys, if you
get to see it uncut. I'm loth to predict what
(11:15):
ABC will do midst mounting pressure from Bill Clinton and
others who uh going today to call Bob Iger at
ABC to demand some of the stuff be edited out.
I don't know what specifically, but uh, they're not happy
about this. Just this, this caused a real ruckus at
the screening, the private screening in Washington, uh last week
(11:37):
of a week before last. But when you watch this,
when you see it, none of it will surprise you.
I mean if you're a regular listener to this program,
because this is stuff that we have been told and
we've known for the longest time. What surprises us is
the whitewash of all this and how they were so
successful at doing it at the nine eleven commission. Clinton
(11:59):
is uh, you know, he's on tape talking about how
the buddies at news Max have this tape. He's making
a speech somewhere in Long Island. Maybe he was Canada,
I'm not sure where, but he was talking about how
they had been Ladden, but they couldn't move on him.
We know the studentese offered him a bunch of times.
Uh this episode in Afghanistan, the CIA and the Northern
Alliance surrounding men Ladden. The administration wouldn't give the go ahead.
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And it's amazing to watch something that that in the
in the what we call the mainstream media, that that
reflects accurately what we believe, what we know to have happened.
We're I'm so unused to seeing that. I'm so I'm
so used to seeing a liberal agenda in everything. Uh
So you're not surprised by what you see because you
(12:43):
know it. I wasn't surprised because this is the version
of events that I believe happened. And then I know
to be trying know the wall was erected. We know
it was Ashcroft read the memo read at the nine
eleven commission, hearing we know all of this, he just
don't expect to see it. And that's that's the pleasant
surprise watching it. Here is a quote from from Cyrus,
who was a friend of mine who produced and wrote
(13:04):
The Path to nine eleven. There's a review of the film,
by the way, at at front page dot com David
Horowitz website. This many series is not just about the
tragedy and events of nine eleven. It dramatizes how we
got there, going back eight years to the first attack
on the World Trade Center and dealing with the Al
Qaeda strikes against US embassies and forces in the nineties,
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the political lead up, the hatching of the terrorist plots, etcetera.
We see the heroes on the ground, like FBI agent
John O'Neil and others who after the ninety three attack
felt sure the terrorists would strike the World Trade Center again.
It also dramatizes the frequent opportunities the administration had in
the nineties to stop Bin Laden in his tracks, but
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he lacked the will to do so. We also revealed
the day by day lead up of clues and opportunities
in two thousand one, right up to the day of
the nine eleven attacks. This is a terror thriller as
well as a history lesson. I think people will be
engaged and in life. Uh, it illustrates the you know,
the the big problem in the administration everybody what was
not Monica Lewinsky. The big problem was what the Lewinsky
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circumstance with Clinton caused to be ignored and not dealt with.
And of course there are reasons other than Lewinsky as well.
The Clinton administration simply didn't want to tackle big things.
They were happy for the nineties to be thought of
as a happy, go lucky, care free time where there
were no threats because, of course Bill Clinton was loved universally,
(14:31):
adored universally around the world. Uh, economy was going great
guns and all through the nineties we had repeated terrorist
attack after repeated terrorist attack with no action taken, uh
to stop them. Now, I don't know what Bob Iger's
going to say if Clinton does call him, which UH,
(14:54):
believe me, last night that was and I have this
I'm good at Thori said, not gossip. Last night. Clinton
was intending to call today, Bob eager to get him
to edit the thing, to recut it in certain ways.
I don't know how you do that without no time
to go in and refilm things. But at any rate,
if I were Bob Iger, and I'm not, uh, you
(15:15):
know what I would say if Bill Clinton does call me, Hey, Bob,
I've heard about this thing you're running up. Some of
my friends are saying this it's a pack full of lives,
Bob is it is packed full of them? I mean,
I mean we did our best way, never worked hard
or anything of my life. And you know that, Bob.
I kept you briefly on all this, and I supported
you when you wanted to be Uisner's replacement. We all
though Eisner was full of it. And I'm very much
(15:36):
happy that you're in your job right now. But I
gotta tell you, Bob is a b S is not
gonna help ab see whatsoever. All Right, If I'm Eiger,
I say, Mr President, I understand all that. But if
you're so upset about this, could you show me where
it's wrong? Could you? Could you sort of prove to
me that what's in this is not accurate? Um? If
(15:59):
you can do that, then yeah. But I can't just
do this because you want me to, since everybody now
knows you're called me anyway, if I order this thing redone,
I'm gonna look like a suck puppet of the Clinton administration,
and I'm trying to establish my own identity here as
the brand new CEO of ABC and Disney's like, I
(16:19):
don't know what I could if Mr President, you can
prove to me that that that that the charge has
made this thing and that the evidence here is really wrong,
and I'd be glad to have them redo it. But
I don't think the Clinton administration wants to do that,
because I don't. I don't think they can. If they could,
they would have done it long ago. But the nine
eleven Committee was nothing more than camouflage. It was nothing
(16:42):
more than a in fact, you know what the word
for it was to get Grilic and Tim Romer and
Ben Venice on the nine eleven Commission. They were censors.
What what Clinton wants ABC to do is censor certain things.
Now Lenton could offer evidence that what Cyrus has put
(17:02):
together here is bs. They let him do so. But
they would have done it up to now if they could.
They wouldn't have had to have Sandy Burglar sneaking into
the National Archives, walking out of there with documents and
his pants and his socks or whatever, and then walking
back in and as I say, who knows what he
put back in. Everybody was focused on what he took
(17:24):
out of there. I was, frankly a little bit more
interested in in what he put in there. Uh, National Archives,
the quote unquote historical record. So anyway, I UM, I
hope this thing stands as is. It's just brilliantly done
and it's it's it's it's uh, it's not a docu drama,
(17:47):
but it's a it's a mini series. It's a movie,
but it's historically based and as as Cyrus describes it,
it is history lesson, it's entertaining, it's it's terrifying. Uh.
Danny Wahlberg is in it to Harvey Kiteles and it
get some major actors in this thing, so it's um,
it's it's not some phony put together things using footage
(18:10):
in it, but I mean it's it's written based on
the historical record. Gail cell phone call from Texas. You're
up first on open line Friday. Hello, Hi, thank you
for taking my call. Thank you. Hey, I'm here with
my husband. We're driving through Texas listening to you, and
thought came to our mind, if ABC won't show the
documentary uncut, perhaps you Rush could use the power of
(18:33):
the e I B network as a place where we
twenty million listeners could purchase the CD and get the
uncut version. Well, the you know, it's an interesting question.
I Uh, we don't own it. Uh, this is this
is a Touchstone Television that did this, which is a
division of Disney. Well, but you know, lots of people,
I'm sure you could work something out. Well. I am
(18:58):
so flattered and moved by your by your confidence. Uh,
it'll be interesting to see what does happen with this
and if there does become an alternate way to uh
to distribute it. But if Touchdone wants to bury it,
they can. Now I should tell you that I don't
want to get the wrong idea of people that they're
standing by it now the Clinton phone call, I have
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no idea how this is gonna go, but they've been
pressured since a week and a half ago, folks. I mean,
there are people are gonna take out ads against this thing,
trying to discredit it. A lot of Lib Democrats who
saw this at the screening in Washington were just outraged
by it, as you can well imagine their whole lives
during service in the Clinton administration and in the years since,
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has been to cover up the lack of action in
this area taken by this administration and to try to
present it as just the opposite of what happened. Uh.
The Clinton administration has forever been in search of a legacy.
It has been doing everything it can to try to
come up with a legacy. H. And this involves the
(20:08):
massaging of news, the censorship of certain things. UH. And
it's uh, you know, I think it's it's quite uh
telling that they now upset about this, because this this
is going to, if it airs, cause people to think
about everything they've heard about nine eleven from the nine
eleven Commission and from the and from the drive by
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