For Kean, 9/11 Movie Is All About Boosting Son's Campaign

by: Juan Melli

Fri Sep 08, 2006 at 11:44:24 AM EDT

Tom Kean Sr has revealed his true colors. His motivations for so forcefully promoting the fictional 9/11 movie are purely political - it's all about his son's campaign. From the New York Daily News:

Asked if he had apologized to Clinton for inaccuracies in the movie, Kean quipped, "No, he was out campaigning against my son yesterday, so I didn't reach out to him at all!"

This movie, which uses completely fabricated events to lay the blame for 9/11 on Clinton, is his chance for revenge. It's not surprising that Tom Kean seems to be putting political expediency above the truth, since he's always blamed Clinton for al Qaeda (from 2004):

Kean: Clinton Blew Best Chance to Get bin Laden
The chairman of the independent commission probing the 9/11 attacks said Sunday that the U.S. probably missed its best chance to take Osama bin Laden out during the Clinton administration, when the notorious terrorist left Sudan for Afghanistan in 1996.
"If we had acted earlier on al-Qaida when al-Qaida was smaller and just getting started, even before bin Laden went to Afghanistan, there were times we could have gotten him," former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean told NBC's "Meet the Press."

So now, Tom Kean Sr is using his position of credibilty and trust as chairman of the 9/11 Commission to blame Democrats for the attacks on 9/11. This is all about politics, and it's all about putting his son's campaign above the truth.

Juan Melli :: For Kean, 9/11 Movie Is All About Boosting Son's Campaign

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For Kean, 9/11 Movie Is All About Boosting Son's Campaign | 2 comments

It was obvious (0.00 / 0)

As i mentioned in the comments on the Menendez article tuesday.

Blame Clinton But not Bush Sr. sure sounds like politicaly motivated to me

No Fear of Terrah

by: internetjoe @ Fri Sep 08, 2006 at 16:46:02 PM UTC

even neoconservative are condemning the movie (0.00 / 0)

John Podhoretz in the New York Post says:

The portrait of Albright is an unacceptable revision of recent history and an unfair mark on a public servant who, no matter her shortcomings, doesn't deserve to be remembered by millions of Americans as the inadvertent (and truculent) savior of Osama bin Laden.
Samuel Berger, Clinton's national security adviser, also seems to have just cause for complaint. The version of the film I saw portrays him as having ruined the CIA's one clear shot at bin Laden himself.

and also basically says the movie is not very good.

Podhoretz is a neo-conservative Bush supporter. He does think Clinton is worthy of criticism, but he concludes that the entire viewpoint of the movie is wrong:

The simple fact of the matter is that, with a million other things going on all at once - all of which seemed more pressing at the time, the threat went uncomprehended.
The 9/11 Commission rightly called this a "failure of imagination." It's the docudrama's failure to portray the False Peace accurately as a "failure of imagination" that makes "The Path to 9/11" entirely unworthy of your time on the fifth anniversary of the attacks.

Frank LoBiondo Record and Jon Runyan Watch

by: Hopeful @ Fri Sep 08, 2006 at 17:56:18 PM UTC