It is funny to watch former President Clinton flounder around like a fish pulled out of water as it relates to the controversy surrounding an ABC-TV movie on the 9-11 tragedy depicting what allegedly went on behind the scenes at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The only reason he is complaining is that it totally screws up the image of a respectable President he has been trying to build in the public's eye ever since Monica Lewinsky affair "stained" the Oval Office. It is no secret that President Clinton has had an obsession about a positive image and legacy since he has left office. This movie, albeit a bit fictionalized, threatens that image. I'm not one of those Republicans who goes around lynching President Clinton. He wasn't a bad president...albeit while I don't give a rat's ass about his affair with Monica, the bottom line is that he tried to cover it up much like President Nixon covered up his involvement in the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. We obviously are not breaking new ground here. It is all coming down to what the Democrats want the world to think of them.

Personally I wasn't planning on watching the docudrama, but in that it is causing the Clintonistas to panic like a disturbed ant's nest, it has only peaked my interest. In my opinion the whole thing could have been a non-issue and passed away in the ether of bad televisiondom, but now the public's interest has been aroused (no pun intended) with President Clinton's whines.

A letter from President Clinton's attorney to ABC-TV

Despite press reports that ABC/Disney has made changes in the content and marketing of "The Path to 9/11," we remain concerned about the false impression that airing the show will leave on the public. Labelng the show as "fiction" does not meet your responsibility to the victims of the September 11th attacks, their families, the hard work of the 9/11 Commission, or to the American people as a whole.

At a moment when we should be debating how to make the nation safer by implementing the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, "The Path to 9/11" calls into question the accuracy of the Commission's report and whether fabricated scenes are, in fact, an accurate portrayal of history. Indeed, the millions spent on the production of this fictional drama would have been better spent informing the public about the Commission's actual findings and the many recommendations that have yet to be acted upon. Unlike this film, that would have been a tremendous service to the public.

Although our request for an advance copy of the film has been repeatedly denied, it is all too clear that our objections to "The Path to 9/11" are valid and corroborated by those familiar with the film and intimately involved in its production....