{"id":8401,"date":"2006-09-07T13:38:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T17:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/8401.html"},"modified":"2006-09-07T13:38:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T17:38:34","slug":"fbi-agent-quit-abc-project-because-they-were-making-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/fbi-agent-quit-abc-project-because-they-were-making-things-up\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI agent quit ABC project because &#8216;they were making things up&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the ABC docudrama hits just <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/09\/07\/fbi-agent-quit\/\">keep on coming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>James Bamford, an author and journalist who has written about security issues, appeared on MSNBC to discuss &#8220;The Path to 9\/11.&#8221; Bamford revealed that an FBI agent who worked as a consultant to the film quit halfway through production of the mini-series because he believed the writers and producers were &#8220;making things up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s made-up. This is fiction. This is not real. One of my friends actually was a consultant to this production &#8212; an FBI agent who worked on 9\/11. He quit halfway through because he thought they were making things up.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Given the circumstances, when an FBI official quits because the movie was veering off into fantasy, it probably should have been a clue to ABC that there was a problem.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of ABC, rumor has it that Bob Iger, Disney&#8217;s CEO, is going to make a statement about the controversy fairly soon. I&#8217;ll update this post if there&#8217;s anything newsworthy. Care to make a guess as to what he might say? I&#8217;d be stunned if the network even considered pulling the program after investing tens of millions in it, but a guy can dream&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: ABC, as expected, <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2006\/09\/07\/abc-statement\/\">released a statement<\/a> this afternoon. It&#8217;s a bad joke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the ABC docudrama hits just keep on coming. James Bamford, an author and journalist who has written about security issues, appeared on MSNBC to discuss &#8220;The Path to 9\/11.&#8221; Bamford revealed that an FBI agent who worked as a consultant to the film quit halfway through production of the mini-series because he believed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}