Senate to investigate CIA contacts with Zero Dark Thirty creators

Angered by the portrayal of interrogation techniques in the movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, the Senate Intelligence Committee has launched an investigation to determine if the CIA gave inappropriate access to information about the bin Laden raid. 

Angered by the portrayal of interrogation techniques in the movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, the Senate Intelligence Committee has launched an investigation to determine if the CIA gave filmmakers inappropriate access to information about the bin Laden raid. The movie, which chronicles the hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, has come under intense criticism from Washington. The CIA denounced the film, calling the interrogation scenes “a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of facts.” Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.) also complained about the film’s “grossly inaccurate and misleading” torture scenes. Critics claim that the film falsely depicts the CIA’s use of torture methods as an effective technique in capturing terrorist leaders. But Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal claim that the movie accurately portrays the events based on information they received from the CIA, putting the agency in an uncomfortable position. 

 

The Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Feinstein, is now launching an investigation to determine whether or not the film’s director and screenwriter were granted “inappropriate” access to classified information by the CIA. 

The committee is also trying to determine if the CIA was responsible for the film’s depiction of torture as a key method in the capture of bin Laden, which it claims is false information.