Category: Culture

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• Zero Dark Thirty — 2012 film dramatizing the CIA hunt for Osama bin Laden, criticized on release for suggesting torture produced the intelligence that led to his capture. John Kiriakou surveys the mixed critical reception — praise from Time and the New Yorker for its craft, condemnation from journalist Michael Wolff and director Kathryn Bigelow's critics for what they called pro-torture propaganda — and notes his friend Senator John McCain said the film left him "sick... because it is wrong."