Investigators have concluded that a senior defense official has leaked restricted information to the makers of the bin Laden film.
Mark Boal took the original screenplay prize for Kathryn Bigelow's film chronicling the manhunt for Osama Bin Laden.
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The Obama administration, it seems, has granted an unusual amount of access to the team behind The Hurt Locker (writer Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow) for an upcoming campaign-season film about the mission to kill Osama bin Laden.
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The film, about an obsessive CIA agent pursuing Osama bin Laden, may have been affected by controversy surrounding its torture scenes.
The film also alleges Saudis, including those with links to the Bin Laden family, had funded oil and arms companies run by the Bush family and their inner circle.
Director Kathryn Bigelow has defended the depiction of torture in her latest film Zero Dark Thirty, a dramatisation of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
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The unit was the subject of a recent TV movie about the Bin Laden raid in Pakistan and will feature in another film, about the rescue of a ship's captain kidnapped by Somali pirates.
The hesitancy and political caution that had characterized America's response to acts of terror had only emboldened bin Laden and his expanding network of jihadists, the film's commentators explain in rich, mostly acerbic detail.
The new film Zero Dark Thirty, about the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden, is the latest example of this phenomenon.
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The letter adds that the film's narrative conflicts with official statements that the CIA did not first learn about a Bin Laden courier through a CIA detainee who had been subjected to "coercive interrogation techniques".
Whether the film an action movie, not a documentary really suggests this about the hunt for bin Laden is a matter of interpretation, and it certainly doesn't condone torture.
After bin Laden's killing in May 2011, the Bigelow-Boal team shelved a planned film about the failure to capture the al Qaeda leader at Afghanistan's Tora Bora in late 2001 and jumped instead on the successful raid.
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