Presented by the network without commercials over five hours (8-11 p.m. Sunday and 8-10:02 p.m. Monday) for what had been pegged originally as a six-hour project, ABC's "Path to 9/11" lays much of the blame at the feet of a priority-challenged President Clinton and CIA director George Tenet for not taking out Osama bin Laden when given the chance. Yes, it was the Clinton administration's inattention to, and dismissing of, the Islamic threat that made everything go so terribly wrong -- a scenario that might have some truth to it but can't be as black and white as portrayed in this narrative, which is drawn from "The 9/11 Commission Report" in tandem with two other published sources, according to the credits. The producers (including exec producer Marc Platt and lead producer-writer Cyrus Nowrasteh) took liberties that ABC this week justified by pointing out that this was "a dramatization, not a documentary, drawn from a variety of sources."

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