As reported by Hopeful earlier today, Tom Kean Sr has allowed himself to be used to promote a "docudrama" about the events leading up to 9/11 despite knowing that it is full of inaccuracies.
In one key scene in the movie, bin Laden is close to being captured, but the effort is cancelled by the Clinton administration. Former counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke says it was all made up:
“It didn’t happen. There were no troops in Afghanistan about to snatch bin Laden. There were no C.I.A. personnel about to snatch bin Laden. It’s utterly invented.”
Faced with the facts, it looks like even Tom Kean Sr is slowly starting to admit the truth. He admitted to the New York Times that the scene isn't factually accurate (h/t to Matt Stoller at the Open Letter to ABC):
Mr. Kean conceded that some points might have been more drama than documentary. “Some of the people shown there probably weren’t there,” he said.
Knowing that the movie is factually inaccurate, why does he still endorse this mockudrama? More importantly, why is he associating himself with a right wing effort to teach revisionist information to school children about the country's history and events leading up to 9/11?
