Senators say CIA may have 'misled' 'Zero Dark Thirty' filmmakers on torture issue
Intelligence Committee makes formal request for documentation from the agency
Jessica Chastain in "Zero Dark Thirty"
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers are accusing the CIA of misleading the makers of the Osama bin Laden raid film, "Zero Dark Thirty," by telling them that harsh interrogation methods helped track down the terrorist mastermind.
The film shows waterboarding and similar techniques as important to finding bin Laden in Pakistan, where he was killed by Navy SEALs.
A three-year Senate investigation showed that such methods produced no useful intelligence. The CIA's acting director, Michael Morell, recently contradicted that, saying harsh techniques did produce some tips that led to bin Laden.
In a letter to the CIA this week, Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, John McCain of Arizona and others asked Morell to back up his claim and to share documents showing what the filmmakers were told.
The CIA says it will cooperate.
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January 4, 2013 at 10:45AM EST Reply to CommentAren't there more important things than how accurate a MOVIE is? I seriously don't understand what these politicians do all day. Why do they care?
Max
January 4, 2013 at 7:24PM EST Reply to CommentThe fact this is such a big issue is hilarious to me. For one thing: it's a movie. They could have avoided the issue altogether by just ignoring it. For another, the entire insistence that torture doesn't yield valuable intelligence goes against nearly the whole of intelligence gathering knowledge down through history. I wish they would just admit that "Yeah, we torture people!" and get it over with. "24" was one of the biggest shows on TV and I think the American people really wouldn't give too much of a damn. Denying it just makes our government look like a bunch of hopeless assholes.
It is redundant to use government and as whole in the same sentence
February 18, 2013 at 6:29AM ESTmac The whole purpose of 24 was to get the nation to accept torture and think there were terrorists around every corner.
February 22, 2013 at 4:19PM ESTThere were laws against using psy-ops against the public but that didn't seem to matter.
Jeff
January 5, 2013 at 5:10PM EST Reply to CommentWhat is missing in this story and the comments is this - Torturing someone, for any reason, IS a war crime whether valuable knowledge is gained or not. This was established and agreed upon at the Geneva Convention after World War II, by the USA and other nations. In 2002, Bush and Congress jointly planned to commit war crimes as evidenced by their passing of the 2002 Hague Invasion Act (google it). This act threatened an invasion of the Hague should any American be indicted for war crimes by the Intl Criminal Court. Likewise, it stands to reason that anyone captured and tortured would do anything or say anything to stop the torture. This is a very important issue that the media has mostly ignored about a very dark part of our recent history and current US policy!!
ceggertsen ^likes this. Thanks for the thoughtful comment :)
January 6, 2013 at 10:07PM ESTsteve do us a favor and move to the lawless tribal area in pakistan and let us know how your doing in about a year
January 18, 2013 at 11:34PM ESTWordsmith from floppingaces.net http://floppingaces.net/2011/05/12/torture-doesnt-work-ok-so-wheres-the-disagreement/
January 24, 2013 at 12:21PM ESTwalt You are so correct Isn't funny how our goverment thinks it is ok to torture. Yet no other country is allowed to do this. Bush & all the politcians are war criminals.
February 1, 2013 at 11:18AM ESTJohnny cowart Because some liberal asshole calls something torture dosnt make it torture. The sec. of defense, and CIA direct. both say water boarding worked, enough said, move on.
March 12, 2013 at 11:26PM ESTover it
January 8, 2013 at 3:00AM EST Reply to CommentAll of you are torturing me with your incessant rambling...moving along..
January 14, 2013 at 6:22PM EST Reply to CommentLet's use Hollywood to rewrite history to suit the rich white man some more. The CiA was created to MISINFORM. Educate yourselves beyond Tv and corporate agenda.
Marissa "We will know we have succeeded when everything the American people believe is a lie." -Former CIA Director, William (something)
January 20, 2013 at 6:51PM ESTCrayon Not so sure it's a white man whose pockets are getting lined by misinformation on the Bin Ladin raid fiasco...
January 21, 2013 at 12:34PM ESTJames
January 22, 2013 at 1:38PM EST Reply to CommentWill personally I believe we didn't torture enough people, We should get the job done a long time ago.
But for your amusement I will tell you a secret. " I WAS IN THE MILITARY IN A ELITE FORCE. AND OUR GOVERNMENT KNEW WHERE HE WAS AT FOR A VERY LONG TIME." So who cares if we torture and kill as long as we get the job done.
walt Tourture is a war crime no matter how you want to twist the facts.
February 1, 2013 at 11:21AM ESTKirk If We condone torture We as a Nation are doomed to the same fate as Rome, Babylon and The Third Reich!
February 11, 2013 at 5:42PM ESTjason Comments like this make me worryed about this counrty poeple like you is why this counrty well be like naiz germany just wait until u feel it and u would wish someone cared
March 7, 2013 at 11:32PM ESTJolly
January 28, 2013 at 10:51PM EST Reply to CommentHow stupid. It's a movie. Why would a senator publicly speak on a movie regarding his speculating opinion about the CIA? What a dummy.