Top Former Counter-Terror Official Blasts ABC 9/11 Docudrama
Sep 6, 2006 Roger Cressey, a top counter-terrorism official to Bush II and Clinton, called ABC's upcoming miniseries "The Path to 9/11" something "straight out of Disney and fantasyland. It?s factually wrong. And that?s shameful.?
Bloggers Rage Over ABC/Disney 9/11 Miniseries
Sep 6, 2006 ABC is planning to air a six-hour ?docudrama? on the fifth anniversary of 9/11 that lays the lion?s share of the blame for the Sept. 11 attacks on President Clinton. The progressive blogosphere is in a rage -- as evidenced by the satirical photo above -- over perceived bias on the part of the filmmakers and ABC/Disney. (Check out the controversy.)
Gorbachev: Americans Have ‘Winner’s’ Disease
Jul 13, 2006 The disease is "worse than AIDS. It's called the winner's complex," the former Soviet leader said in an ABC News interview. "You want an American-style democracy here [in Russia]. That will not work." Gorbachev railed against Cheney and Rumsfeld, calling them "hawks protecting the interests of the military ? shallow people."
Behind the Scenes at Gitmo
Jun 30, 2006 ABC News gets an extremely rare (maybe unprecedented) look at the inside of Guantanamo Bay. Watch it. The head interrogator denies all use of torture, and even refers to his interrogations as "custodial interviews." The room pictured above--which has a plush lazy chair--is supposedly one of the interrogation rooms. This sugar-coated look at Gitmo feels sort of like the tours of North Korea that Westerners sometimes get.Feds Tracking ABC News Phone Calls in Leak Hunt
May 16, 2006 A "senior law enforcement official" has told ABC News that the government, in trying to root out confidential sources, is tracking the phone numbers the news organization calls Maybe we should just start calling him George "Big Brother" Bush Update: An official acknowledges its "backtracking" of journalists' phone records .
