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| Barack Obama accused of risking national security over Osama bin Laden film |
| 2012-05-23 |
| President Barack Obama has been accused of risking America's national security for political gain by giving Hollywood filmmakers access to secret material on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Critics of Mr Obama from the Left also said it was astonishing that an administration that had prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous governments combined had been caught happily leaking to Hollywood allies Documents released under freedom of information laws show that Mr Obama's defence department and CIA enthusiastically assisted Kathryn Bigelow, the Oscar-winning director, for her forthcoming film on the raid. Mr Obama's administration even made available "a planner, operator and commander of SEAL Team Six", the elite Navy squad that killed bin Laden in May last year. The identities of Navy SEALS are a closely-kept secret. The filmmakers were taken to a classified facility, whose name had to be redacted in the released documents, and were allowed to tour the CIA vaults, containing vast amounts of secret information. They were also shown the CIA's mock-up of bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. At the time, Ms Bigelow's film, titled Zero Dark Thirty, was due to be released in October, later prompting accusations that it was timed to boost Mr Obama's prospects for re-election the following month. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Maybe someone should start investigating Kathryn Bigelow for the next six or seven months. Have her standing by to testify daily as to who told her what, when, all the painful details. Then charge her with assembling and divulging classified information through her movie if she can't remember anything. Then go keelhaul the poor sucker who decides to release all the classified information in a last-ditch attempt to thwart the investigation. |
| Posted by: gorb 2012-05-23 23:47 |
| #1 More like risking America's national security by gutting the economy and debt. |
| Posted by: newc 2012-05-23 18:11 |