McCain, Dems slam “misleading” torture depiction in “Zero Dark Thirty”

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:55:00 +0000

Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal’s “Zero Dark Thirty,” the film that depicts the CIA’s decade-long manhunt for Osama bin Laden, has been under fire for its torture scenes; many critics have gone so far as to say that the film “glorifies” torture by suggesting that information gained in the waterboarding scene led to the capture of bin Laden. Now, Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Carl Levin, D-Mich., have written a letter to Michael Lynton, the chairman and chief executive of Sony Pictures Entertainment, calling the depiction of torture "misleading" and "factually inaccurate."

"We write to express our deep disappointment with the movie 'Zero Dark Thirty,'" the Senators wrote. "We believe the film is grossly inaccurate and misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the location of Usama bin Laden."

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McCain, Dems slam “misleading” torture depiction in “Zero Dark Thirty”