Vrede wrote:Coincidental that this is happening right when a movie about the raid that lies about torture playing a role comes out. I'm not going to pay to see it.
I haven't seen the movie. But I do note that some disagree with the claims about the portrayal of torture:
On the other hand, national security reporter Spencer Ackerman stated that the film "does not present torture as a silver bullet that led to bin Laden; it presents torture as the ignorant alternative to that silver bullet".
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Likewise, the writer Andrew Sullivan claimed that "the movie is not an apology for torture, as so many have said, and as I have worried about. It is an exposure of torture. It removes any doubt that war criminals ran this country for seven years".
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The screenwriter Mark Boal described the pro-torture accusations as "preposterous", stating that "it’s just misreading the film to say that it shows torture leading to the information about bin Laden", while director Bigelow added: "Do I wish [torture] was not part of that history? Yes. But it was."
