It looks like the brains behind "The Path to 9/11" will be at work again soon. Cyrus Nowrestah will be writing a new movie scheduled for production by
Paramount Pictures. This movie is called "
Jawbreaker", and will (you guessed it) put the blame on Bill Clinton once again.
From Variety.com
Cyrus Nowrasteh, whose most recent credit was the controversial ABC miniseries "The Path to 9/11," is set to write a second draft of "Jawbreaker." Script is based in part on a memoir of the same name by Gary Bernsten, the CIA's pointman during the invasion, who coordinated the efforts of the CIA and Special Operations Forces to end Taliban rule.
more below the fold
"World Trade Center" was marketed as a heroic rescue tale, but Stone recognizes it will be harder to avoid political discussions on "Jawbreaker." In a memoir heavily vetted by the CIA (there are pages of blacked-out lines), Bernsten details feeling stymied by bureaucrats in President Bill Clinton's administration who prevented operatives from engaging a growingly malicious Al Qaeda and Bin Laden presence. While Bernsten describes how he and his cohorts were stunningly told to stand down when they had Bin Laden cornered in Tora Bora, he writes approvingly of President George W. Bush's handling of the invasion.
Handling of the Invasion? Oh you must be talking about those few weeks that we went there, and then immediately changed our plans and redeployed into Iraq, sounds like great handling to me.
Also compelling is Stone's choice of Nowrasteh, whose "Path to 9/11" script met a volley of critical salvos for injecting fictional scenes. The mini, which was nearly pulled by ABC in September, was pointedly criticized by Clinton for unfairly painting his administration as indifferent to Bin Laden. Nowrasteh wrote and directed 2001 telepic "The Day President Reagan Was Shot," which Stone exec produced.
Compelling? No. More like "I liked how you blamed Clinton for 9/11, now let's blame him for not capturing Bin Laden."
Will someone please buy these fuckers a copy of "Against All Enemies" by Richard Clarke?
Think Progress has more at their website.