Under intense pressure from officials from the Clinton administration who felt that ABC's miniseries The Path to 9/11 contained fabricated scenes insinuating that the then-president was too preoccupied with a possible impeachment to give the order to kill Osama bin Laden, the network aired an edited version of its first installment last night in which some disputed scenes were altered to deflect accusations of bias. But rather than anger Republicans by shifting blame from Clinton to the Bush administration, ABC decided to take a more politically neutral, if radical, direction, rebranding the project as a "reimagining" of the events leading up to the September 11th attacks, which in tonight's miniseries finale are discovered to have been masterminded by an evil extraterrestrial sleeper cell that had been living among us since 1947, an eventuality that couldn't possibly have been foreseen by either party.

• Dark Skies [IMDb]
• ABC Airs First Night of 9/11 Miniseries [AP]

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