Like I have said, "Artistic License" a green light to lie.
And this was the "Road To 9-11" fiasco.
The story behind how "The Path to 9/11" (PT911) came to be made is still quite murky, so the degree of influence various individuals and entities had is very much up in the air. Nonetheless, it is certain that director David Cunningham had a lot of power--after all, directors usually do, and the producer's own statements indicate he took a rather hands-off approach.
So who is the director, and what are the influences on him? This is surely a complicated investigative question for anyone with so little previous public record. But we do know this much:
(1) He's the son of Loren Cunningham, the founder of a very big missionary organization, Youth With A Mission (YWAM),
(2) He founded an auxiliary of YWAM, The Film Institute (TFI) with the goal of producing a "Godly transformation and revolution TO and THROUGH the Film and Television industry."
(3) PT911 is TFI's "first project."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/09/10/244976/-The-Quasi-Cult-Behind-The-Path-To-9-11
It was supposed to be based on the bipartisan 9/11 Commission report, but it wasn’t. ABC/Disney dropped that claim before it aired. It was supposed to be historically accurate, but it wasn’t. ABC/Disney dropped that claim as well. And it was supposed to make ABC/Disney look good by putting this tragedy into a fair historical perspective, but it didn’t. Even ABC/Disney is hard pressed to pretend otherwise.
Instead, the fictionalized docudrama, The Path to 9/11, (PT911) has become Disney’s PR nightmare, and could cost them millions in lawsuits. Some have suggested going after their broadcast licenses. In contrast, their corporate partner, Scholastic, Inc., has severed their relationship, dropped the original lesson plans it was going to distribute to high school teachers nationwide, and replaced them with a set including an emphasis on critical thinking and media literacy. It was far from being a balanced or unbiased look into the events leading up to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Problems with PT911 were apparent more than a year ago when not one, but two former FBI agents refused to work as advisors on the project because of factual inaccuracies the producers refused to correct. Thomas E. Nicoletti, was hired by the film’s producers in July 2005, but left after less than a month because of scenes he called, “total fiction” in a Sep. 8 New York Times article. Dan Coleman, turned down the job in advance.
“They sent me the script, and I read it and told them they had to be kidding,” Coleman told the Times. “I wanted my friends at the FBI to still speak to me.”
http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/the-abcs-of-911/Story?oid=171025