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| Zero Dark Thirty: Did the real woman behind the bin Laden raid get passed over for promotion |
| 2012-12-12 |
| In No Easy Day, Matt Bissonnette, the Navy SEAL who wrote the book detailing the assassination of Osama bin Laden, credits "Jen" a feisty female CIA analyst for leading them to the al-Qaeda leader. In Zero Dark Thirty, the movie out next week on the hunt for bin Laden, the agent is named "Maya" and focuses on her decade-long hunt for the elusive terrorist. A U.S. Navy SEAL team shot the al-Qaeda mastermind dead in May 2011 after a stealth raid on his compound in Pakistan. No one knows the female agent's real name, but The Washington Post revealed Tuesday that all the attention she is getting is annoying colleagues at the Central Intelligence Agency. The operative, who remains undercover, was passed over for a promotion many in the agency thought would be impossible to withhold from someone who played such a key role in one of the most successful operations in agency history, the paper reported. The Washington Post profile says colleagues were jealous of the attention she was getting. The woman has also sparred with colleagues over credit for the bin Laden mission. The Washington Post said this spring she was awarded the agency's Distinguished Intelligence Medal while dozens of others were given lesser awards. A former CIA official told the paper that the agent hit "reply all" and in essence said, "You guys tried to obstruct me. You fought me. Only I deserve the award." The agent has also come under scrutiny for her contacts with filmmakers and others about the bin Laden mission, part of a broader internal inquiry into the agency's cooperation on the new movie and other projects. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #3 JohnQC; she doesn't claim to be a trigger puller but she does seem to think that she isn't getting proper credit for her work and that others are getting credit for what she did even as they initially resisted her theory's. |
| Posted by: tipover 2012-12-12 23:36 |
| #2 **** cough **** cough **** cough ***... To paraph ELMER FUDD OR ORVILLE RICKENBACHER, "WWWEEELLLL NNNOOOWWWW, I WOULDN'T SAY THAT"! My mind is torn - Osama, or loyalty as an American + Soldier to the Fed. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-12-12 19:37 |
| #1 I haven't seen the movie but usually I don't think much of Hollywood's version of anything. Read the book "No Easy Day" and found it an interesting read. I don't know much about the legalities of writing the book but there really didn't seem to be anything that rose to the level of violating national security--it seemed to be fairly sanitized and as the book said everything was in open sources. Fox is credited (maybe discredited would be more appropriate) for "outing" the author. If true, that should not have been done. It also seems like there are a lot of people trying to claim to be the equivalent of the "trigger pullers" after the mission such as "Jen" and the Champ. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-12-12 18:10 |