„The path to 9/11“ is a controversial discussed two part miniseries which was aired in the USA by ABC on September 11. and 12.. The Film emotes die terrorist attacks an the World Trade Centre of 1993 and 2001 and puts them in a chronology of terrorist attacks on the USA. After the suicide bombing of the warship USS Cole on 14. of October 2000 the FBI terror-expert John O’Neill (Harvey Keitel) is send to the Yemen. He is on the brink to catch Osama bin Laden but the mission is abolished shortly before she is completed. Original the film contented some direct accusations on the Clinton administration which were cut out after heavy resistance of the Democratic Party. For example in one scene Madeleine Albright should have had frustrated a plan to kill Bin Laden by warning the Pakistani government. The attack existed the warning not. In another scene the terror-expert Richard Clarke blames Clinton to be incapacitated to do something effective against the international terror.
The “Thing” with Lewinsky should have been deflected him. This scene wasn’t in the shown version either. Dissatisfied O’Neill quits duty and accedes his job as security chief in the World trade Centre. In the key scene the film dramatises the incidents of the 9/11 and reconstructs the impact of the second plane. The film includes the scene with Tom Burnetts phone call to with his wife and John Millers report of the incidents outside the World Trade cennter.