Members of the Senate have called Zero Dark Thirty, Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigalow's Bin Laden movie, "grossly inaccurate" in its portrayal of US-sanctioned torture. In a letter to Sony Pictures Entertainment, Diane Feinstein (D-CA), Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) said the movie was a "deep disappointment," labeling it "misleading in its suggestion that torture resulted in information that led to the location" of the Al Qaeda leader.
"People who see 'Zero Dark Thirty' will believe that the events it portrays are facts."
Zero Dark Thirty is labelled as a fictitious work, but opens with a note claiming it's based on first-hand accounts of actual events, which the senators argue blurs the lines between fact and...
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