On Wednesday?s ?Countdown,? 9/11 commissioner Richard Ben-Veniste, at right, added his voice to those criticizing ABC?s credibility-challenged 9/11 ?docudrama,? saying: ?It was quite clear, as the 9/11 commission report states, that Clinton authorized the CIA and the American forces to get Bin Laden?capture or kill?and this miniseries does not depict it accurately.?

Although the miniseries has the endorsement of 9/11 commissioner Tom Kean?a paid consultant on the project?and claims to base itself on the 9/11 commission report, it has drawn intense criticism for laying much of the blame for the Sept. 11 attacks on the Clinton administration.

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