"Zero Dark Thirty" Sparks Torture Debate

[Daw912]

The controversial film “Zero Dark Thirty” opens nationwide this week, but it’s already reopened a political wound that lawmakers would rather see salved — whether the role of torture was effective in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
The Washington premiere on Tuesday comes at a delicate time on Capitol Hill — and a complicated time for President Barack Obama — as he introduces his new national security team to lawmakers. Though Obama is opposed to torture and abolished “enhanced interrogation techniques” upon his election, his new nominee for CIA director was an intelligence official when those methods were used to wrest information from suspected terrorists during the George W. Bush administration.
The movie depicts harsh questioning of terrorist detainees in the hunt for bin Laden, including waterboarding, slapping and sleep deprivation, and suggests that those methods were helpful in finding bin Laden.


Read more: www.politico.com/story/2013/01/zero-dark-thirty-sparks-torture-debate-85875.html#ixzz2HWv5opnx

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[lena01]

Following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden becomes one of the most-wanted men on the planet. The worldwide manhunt for the terrorist leader occupies the resources and attention of two U.S. presidential administrations. Ultimately, it is the work of a dedicated female operative (Jessica Chastain) that proves instrumental in finally locating bin Laden. In May 2011, Navy SEALs launch a nighttime strike, killing bin Laden in his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.