Behind the commemorations marking the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the debate rumbles on about who is to blame for the attacks, with ABC drama The Path to 9/11 stoking the flames.
The mini-series, which is also airing on BBC2, has provoked outrage from officials in President Clinton's former administration who complained it contained fabricated scenes about their actions prior to the attacks.
Following their complaints, ABC edited key scenes in the five-hour drama including changing a scene that indicated Clinton's pre-occupation with his potential impeachment may have affected the effort to go after Osama bin Laden.
A scene in which national security adviser Samuel R Berger hangs up the telephone on CIA chief George Tenet as Tenet seeks permission to attack Bin Laden was also cut, as was dialogue in which FBI agent John O'Neill asks White House terrorism tsar Richard Clarke: "What's Clinton going to do [about Bin Laden]?" with Clarke replying: "I don't know. The Lewinsky thing is a noose around his neck".
A disclaimer at the beginning of the miniseries that originally said the dramatisation was "based on the 9/11 commission report and other published sources and personal interviews" was also changed to say that the material was "drawn from a variety of sources including the 9/11 commission report and other published materials and from personal interviews".
The first instalment, which was originally scheduled to air from 8pm to 11 pm, ended up finishing 20 minutes early.
As well as getting former Clinton staffers hot under the collar, it has also ignited the blogging world, which can't help itself when there is a good scrap to be had between the polarised factions of American politics.
But this time, the traditional fight between conservative bloggers and the liberal media has been turned on its head with liberals accusing a right wing cabal in Hollywood of using the docu-drama to take the focus off President Bush's failings.
Nation magazine columnist Max Blumenthal called the mini-series a "gross distortion of history", claiming it is produced and promoted by a "well-honed propaganda operation consisting of a network of little-known right-wingers working from within Hollywood to counter its supposedly liberal bias."
The second part, which airs in both the US and UK tonight, deals with the 9/11 attack itself on the fifth anniversary of the disaster.
