Will Clinton, Berger and Albright threaten the BBC with a libel suit?
Verite Sparks | 09.09.2006 18:28 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World
As you know, the BBC is planning to show Disney/ABC's defamatory "Path to 9/11" program in the UK on Sunday. I'm told by a friend that under UK libel laws there is no public person defense and damages and costs can both be in the millions. And, "British libel laws are considered pro-plaintiff, meaning that the defendant must prove that she or he did not commit libel."
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Will Clinton, Berger and Albright threaten the BBC with a libel suit?
by John in DC - 9/09/2006 12:48:00 AM
As you know, the BBC is planning to show Disney/ABC's defamatory "Path to 9/11" program in the UK on Sunday. I'm told by a friend that under UK libel laws there is no public person defense and damages and costs can both be in the millions. And, "British libel laws are considered pro-plaintiff, meaning that the defendant must prove that she or he did not commit libel."
My friend notes, and I agree, that if the BBC were to receive a letter like the one that Clinton's lawyer, Berger, and Albright sent to ABC, the BBC legal department would likely be in a state of high panic. The chances are that they would yank the program immediately.
If the BBC were to do that it would be much harder for ABC to show the program and if they did they would find it much harder to claim that it was based on fact.
Yes, it would be very interesting if someone who knows Clinton, Berger and Albright suggested this to them.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/will-clinton-berger-and-albright.html
Will Clinton, Berger and Albright threaten the BBC with a libel suit?
by John in DC - 9/09/2006 12:48:00 AM
As you know, the BBC is planning to show Disney/ABC's defamatory "Path to 9/11" program in the UK on Sunday. I'm told by a friend that under UK libel laws there is no public person defense and damages and costs can both be in the millions. And, "British libel laws are considered pro-plaintiff, meaning that the defendant must prove that she or he did not commit libel."
My friend notes, and I agree, that if the BBC were to receive a letter like the one that Clinton's lawyer, Berger, and Albright sent to ABC, the BBC legal department would likely be in a state of high panic. The chances are that they would yank the program immediately.
If the BBC were to do that it would be much harder for ABC to show the program and if they did they would find it much harder to claim that it was based on fact.
Yes, it would be very interesting if someone who knows Clinton, Berger and Albright suggested this to them.
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/09/will-clinton-berger-and-albright.html
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FBI consultant quit ABC film "Path to 9/11"
09.09.2006 23:21
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It's so rife with falsehoods that an FBI agent who was brought in to consult on the docudrama quit because, he said, "they were making things up."
ABC is now ORDERING its stations to air a five hour propoganda film! "Local stations have been instructed by ABC -- and its corporate owners at Disney -- to air "The Path to 9/11"..."
BUSH PROPOGANDA LIE TO BE FORCED INTO U.S. COMPULSORY SCHOOLING CURRICULA: "ABC/Disney also planned to distribute the historically false "Path to 9/11" to more than 25,000 American classrooms, via lesson plans created by Scholastic -- the world's largest publisher of children's books." However,...
"The docudrama's scriptwriter -- a noted conservative -- admits that the film's most controversial scene -- where a Clinton administration official passes up an opportunity to kill Osama Bin Ladin -- was based on nothing at all, telling a right-wing radio station that the scene was "improvised."
And the film entirely leaves out the real crucial events of the day--the Rumsfeld and NORAD standdown, and the 15 minute Bush "sit down" where he failed to react and acted as if merely being updated on the status of the ongoing pre-planned terrorism and its pre-planned standdown activities.
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