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PJ Mediahttps://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2012/12/26/the-cia-goes-to-the-movies/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 11:52:03 -0400The CIA Goes to the Movies<![CDATA[In case anybody doubted that the United States is in the grips of collective idiocy, consider that the head of our “secret intelligence service” has just issued a movie review of a new film about the operation that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden. In that review–nominally written for all CIA employees but quickly distributed to all manner of media around the world–we are given Acting Director Michael Morell’s heads-up that Zero Dark Thirty is not a documentary, that the film compresses years of hard work into a couple of hours on the screen, that it “takes liberties” describing some CIA personnel (including some who died in the effort), and that “enhanced interrogations” (waterboarding, sleep deprivation, etcetera) of captured terrorists were not the only source of the information that led to the operation.]]>Wed, 26 Dec 2012 11:15:03 -0500<![CDATA[Michael Ledeen]]>https://pjmedia.com/michael-ledeen/2012/12/26/the-cia-goes-to-the-movies-n187730