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Hissyspit

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Wed Dec 10, 2014, 07:27 AM Dec 2014

Senate Report Rejects Torture Contribution in Bin Laden Hunt Strongly implied in 'Zero Dark Thirty'

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/world/senate-report-raises-doubts-about-cia-claims-on-hunt-for-osama-bin-laden.html

Senate Report Rejects Claim on Hunt for Bin Laden

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But in page after page of previously classified evidence, the Senate Intelligence Committee report on C.I.A. torture, released Tuesday, rejects the notion that torturing detainees contributed to finding Bin Laden — a conclusion that was also strongly implied in “Zero Dark Thirty,” the popular 2012 movie about the hunt for the Qaeda leader.

“The vast majority of the intelligence” about the Qaeda courier who led the agency to Bin Laden “was originally acquired from sources unrelated to the C.I.A.'s detention and interrogation program, and the most accurate information acquired from a C.I.A. detainee was provided prior to the C.I.A. subjecting the detainee to the C.I.A.'s enhanced interrogation techniques,” the Senate report said.

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Senate Report Rejects Torture Contribution in Bin Laden Hunt Strongly implied in 'Zero Dark Thirty' (Original Post) Hissyspit Dec 2014 OP
RWers continue to froth about Hollywood liberals and liberal msm. merrily Dec 2014 #1
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