Despite the fact that people are discounting a docudrama for fictionalizing scenes, nearly all "Historical" films do this such as Braveheart, the story DOES follow closely the assertions of the 9/11 commission and former Clinton adviser Dick Morris. You can say the film takes some liberties with events but the fact remains this film does accurately portray the way the CLinton administration, including Madeline Albright, viewed terrorism. This is not a knock on Clinton, nearly every American viewed terrorism as a far away thing that occasionally would make headlines. To say the film is fiction is simply closing your eyes to the facts. You may interpret the facts any way you choose, but it does not take away the nature of the events. The Path to 9/11 is a clear view that terrorism was always a secondary worry from Carter, to Reagan, to G.H.W. Bush, to Clinton, to G.W. Bush. What this film also does is portray the way the various intelligence and government agencies all wanted to protect themselves from blame and responsibility. Again, this is nothing new, but the film does focus on that. Overall, it is not as compelling as reading the actual 9/11 report, but it does the job.
Review of The Path to 9/11
