![]() According to several official sources, including Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the identity of bin Laden’s courier, whose trail led the C.I.A. Bigelow maintains that everything in the film is based on first-hand accounts, but the waterboarding scene, which is likely to stir up controversy, appears to have strayed from real life. ![]() operatives the suspect eventually surrenders information that helps lead to bin Laden. The film includes wrenching scenes of a terrorist suspect being waterboarded and subjected to other forms of torture by C.I.A. Bigelow constructs a movie upon a grotesque lie: Would this be an Obama hagiography just before the election? Isn’t that what Hollywood’s about? When the director of the magnificent movie, The Hurt Locker, decided to make a movie about the raid on Abottabad, the Republican right got twitchy. Below are our posts examining the inclusion of torture in the plot of the film Zero Dark Thirty, including a much commentary from Andrew, his review of the film, and coverage of the film’s accuracy and how much involvement the CIA may have had in its making.
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