Cyrus Nowasteh, the screenwriter for The Path to 9/11, writes this scathing article today directed towards the critics of the movie:

“The hysteria engendered by the series found more than one target. In addition to the death threats and hate mail directed at me, and my grotesque portrayal as a maddened right-winger, there developed an impassioned search for incriminating evidence on everyone else connected to the film. And in director David Cunningham, the searchers found paydirt! His father had founded a Christian youth outreach mission. The whiff of the younger Mr. Cunningham’s possible connection to this enterprise was enough to set the hounds of suspicion baying. A religious mission! A New York Times reporter wrote, without irony or explanation, that an issue that raised questions about the director was his involvement in his father’s outreach work. In the era of McCarthyism, the merest hint of a connection to communism sufficed to inspire dark accusations, the certainty that the accused was part of a malign conspiracy. Today, apparently, you can get something of that effect by charging a connection with a Christian mission.

“The Path to 9/11″ was intended to remind us of the common enemy we face. Like the 9/11 Report itself, it is meant to enable us to better defend ourselves from a future attack. Past is prologue, and 9/11 is merely another step in an escalating Islamic fundamentalist reign of terror. By dramatizing the step-by-step increase in attacks on America–all of which, in fact, occurred–we are better able to see the pattern and anticipate the future. That was the point of the series, its only intention. Call it the canary in the coal mine. Call it John O’Neill in the FBI.

Despite intense political pressure to pull the film right up until airtime, Disney/ABC stood tall and refused to give in. For this–for not buckling to threats from Democratic senators threatening to revoke ABC station licenses–Disney CEO Rober Iger and ABC executives deserve every commendation. Hence the 28 million viewers over two nights, and the ratings victory Monday night (little reported by the media), are gratifying indeed.

“The Path to 9/11″ was set in the time before the event, and in a world in which no party had the political will to act. The principals did not know then what we know now. It is also indisputable that Bill Clinton entered office a month before the first attack on the World Trade Center. Eight years then went by, replete with terrorist assaults on Americans and American interests overseas. George W. Bush was in office eight months before 9/11. Those who actually watched the entire miniseries know that he was given no special treatment.”

Cyrus makes the point here that point of the story was that the Clinton administration missed many opportunities for stopping Bin Laden. One of the interesting thing is that some are still claiming - or rather excepting the claim of others - that the scene where we had Bin Laden surrounded didn’t happen, when I know for a fact that it did. I know those who were there. I don’t care what the 9/11 Ommission Commission wrote, the fact is that it did happen and whether it was Berger, or some other puke up the chain, they pulled the plug on the operation.

This didn’t just happen once or twice, but at least ten different times. Those who know, like Michael Schuerer, Col. Buzz Patterson and others who witnessed the ineptness of that administration first hand don’t need to prove a thing, they know, we know.

The thugs who tried to stop the movie from being shown know. The 3000 who died on 9/11 know.