The wingspan of Bill Clinton's power is wide! Or Bill Clinton thinks it is! Back in 2006, he tried squashing the ABC miniseries Path to 9/11, which his inner circle feared would blame some of the WTC attacks on Clinton White House policy (i.e. not finding Osama bin Laden), claims Carol Felsenthal in her new book Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House. Even Madeleine Albright jumped on the bandwagon, calling for the series to get killed, even though she hadn't even seen any of it.
Sound familiar? It should. It's the same sort of scenario Clinton pulled with GQ, threatening to drop out of participating in the magazine's "Men of the Year" issue of a critical profile of wife Hillary got printed. Editor Jim Nelson ending up killing the piece (though it was reused elsewhere), and Bill gave him a cover.
ABC, as history tells it, didn't cave.
Editorial Director
See this link about the possibility of neurological consequences of being on a cardiac pump during heart surgery (consequences that can manifest up to five years later). Both Clinton and Cheney (5 time!!) have had open heart surgery.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/14336