Miani Herald: Author: Terror Spy Show a TV Whitewash
Here's an interesting story from today's Miami Herald:
What was expected to be a controversial documentary that charges that Osama bin Laden's top spy infiltrated three U.S. security agencies has gotten even hotter, with investigative reporter Peter Lance calling the TV piece based on his book a whitewash that's ``like doing Schindler's List from Hitler's perspective.''
The documentary, Triple Cross, is scheduled to air on the National Geographic Channel Aug. 28, with Lance's book of the same name due out a few weeks later. But their accounts of how bin Laden's master spy Ali A. Mohamed outwitted the CIA, the FBI and the U.S. Army may be overshadowed by the war of words between Lance and the network.
Lance, who in early treatments of the Triple Cross script was the narrator, was so infuriated by the program's eventual direction that he refused to appear. National Geographic's producers at one point held back transcripts of interviews they were supposed to share with Lance, and still won't let him see the final documentary unless he signs what they call a ``non-disparagement agreement.''
As the dispute has grown, some sources interviewed for the Triple Cross documentary have asked National Geographic to be removed from the program.
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My commentary: I have direct contact with the author in question, Peter Lance, so I know some of the "inside scoop." It seems to me that Lance's book is very hard hitting about the FBI and their failures leading up to 9/11, and the FBI didn't like that. They threatened National Geographic not to allow key people to be interviewed unless certain conditions were made, and Nat Geo agreed. Ironically, a documentary about a cover up in itself becomes a cover up. What a sad state our media is in.
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What was expected to be a controversial documentary that charges that Osama bin Laden's top spy infiltrated three U.S. security agencies has gotten even hotter, with investigative reporter Peter Lance calling the TV piece based on his book a whitewash that's ``like doing Schindler's List from Hitler's perspective.''
The documentary, Triple Cross, is scheduled to air on the National Geographic Channel Aug. 28, with Lance's book of the same name due out a few weeks later. But their accounts of how bin Laden's master spy Ali A. Mohamed outwitted the CIA, the FBI and the U.S. Army may be overshadowed by the war of words between Lance and the network.
Lance, who in early treatments of the Triple Cross script was the narrator, was so infuriated by the program's eventual direction that he refused to appear. National Geographic's producers at one point held back transcripts of interviews they were supposed to share with Lance, and still won't let him see the final documentary unless he signs what they call a ``non-disparagement agreement.''
As the dispute has grown, some sources interviewed for the Triple Cross documentary have asked National Geographic to be removed from the program.
LinkHere
My commentary: I have direct contact with the author in question, Peter Lance, so I know some of the "inside scoop." It seems to me that Lance's book is very hard hitting about the FBI and their failures leading up to 9/11, and the FBI didn't like that. They threatened National Geographic not to allow key people to be interviewed unless certain conditions were made, and Nat Geo agreed. Ironically, a documentary about a cover up in itself becomes a cover up. What a sad state our media is in.
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