How, and why, ABC spent $30 million on "The Path to 9/11"

NYT: It’s little wonder that ABC’s mini-series “The Path to 9/11” drew stinging criticism earlier this month for its invented scenes, fabricated dialogue and unsubstantiated accounts of how the Clinton and Bush administrations conducted themselves in the years encompassing the World Trade Center attacks of 1993 and 2001.A more puzzling question is why ABC spent $30 million on what, since it lacked commercials, amounted to a five-hour public service announcement. More