So I guess early critics like Glenn Greenwald and yours truly were not nuts after all. The chorus of criticism of
Zero Dark Thirty has grown this week to include many more in the media, three top U.S. Senators and
now acting CIA chief Michael Morrell.
In a message sent Friday to agency employees about the film, “Zero Dark
Thirty,” Mr. Morell said it “creates the strong impression that the
enhanced interrogation techniques that were part of our former detention
and interrogation program were the key to finding Bin Laden. That
impression is false.”
In fact, he said, “the truth is that multiple streams of intelligence
led C.I.A. analysts to conclude that Bin Laden was hiding in
Abbottabad,” the city in Pakistan where a Navy SEAL team killed him in
May 2011. “Some came from detainees subjected to enhanced techniques,”
Mr. Morell wrote, using the C.I.A.’s euphemism for harsh and sometimes
brutal treatment that included
waterboarding. “But there were many other sources as well.”
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