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Blockbuster "zero dark 30" an oscar contender is reportedly based on first hand accounts on the raid that killed osama bin laden. >> im not your friend. im not going to help you. im going to break you. >> reporter: scenes of harsh interrogations seemed to yield a breakthrough. ultimately leading to bin ladens hideout in pakistan, but that narrative is being sharply questioned by u.s. senators. >> they make it appear as if this brutal interrogation techniques obtained useful information. the fact...

Bin laden courier from detainees subjected to coercive interrogation techniques. instead, the cia learned of the existence of the courier, his true name and location, through means unrelated to the cia detention and interrogation program. michael morell mainly agreed with her saying the impression that enhanced interrogation was the key to finding bin laden is false, and he also said whether enhanced interrogation techniques were the only timely and effective way to obtain information from those...

Michael morell mainly agreed with her saying the impression that enhanced interrogation was the key to finding bin laden is false, and he also said whether enhanced interrogation techniques were the only timely and effective way to obtain information from those detainees, as the film suggests, is a matter of debate that cannot and never will be definitively resolved. so, david corn, how are we going to resolve it? >> i think the acting director is wrong. it can be resolved if you have enough inf...

Down the aisle with long time girlfriend. the 43-year-old was chairman of dream works animation and a financial contributor to abc "good morning america" and they have been dating since 2006. >> top members of congress accuse the c.i.a. of misleading the makers of the osama bin laden raid film "zero dark 30," claiming they were told harsh interrogation techniques tracked down the terrorist mastermind but a senate investigation found waterboarding and other methods produced no useful intelligence...

Agency at the time of the bin laden raid said the information did not lead to bin ladens hideout in pakistan. other lawmakers agree. as does mike morrell. he says the film creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation techniques that were part of our former interrogation program were the key to finding bin laden. that impression is false. three members of the senate intelligence committee are also taking issue with the film suggestions that torture was an effective method of obta...

Obligation to follow it. are you worried that that has further been concentrated at this point. >> time? >> no question about it. we have one of our main political parties, the republican party has a clear position on torture. its for it. its clear what obama has done or what he hasnt done is transform torture from something that was illegal to something that presidents can do. obama said it himself, i prohibited torture. et doesnt have the power. its illegal. and we learned at the end of this p...

Laden raid said the information did not lead to bin ladens hideout in pakistan. other lawmakers agree. as does mike morrell. he says the film creates the strong impression that the enhanced interrogation techniques that were part of our former interrogation program were the key to finding bin laden. that impression is false. three members of the senate intelligence committee are also taking issue with the film suggestions that torture was an effective method of obtaining information. senators jo...

>> and leon panetta said when he was the cia chief they did use enhanced interrogation techniques. i remember when this film was postponed. it was supposed to be released in october, but they thought it would help the president win re-election. so they waited until after the election to release the film instead of doing it in october. >> are you going to see it? >> im interested. i think what we do in this business, im interesting to see how hollywood is going to portray it. >> as our viewers kn...

When they see the scenes of torture they are going to ask if the means, if the ends justified the means. >> i think the film does not have an agenda. i think it just shows the story as the story of the greatest manhunt in history. thats part of that history. so we needed to, you know, basically show all the pieces of that puzzle. >> kathryn bigelow talking to matt lauer on the "today" show. the former fbi interrogator, jim clemente, whats your information on getting the record straight about wha...

Osama bin laden. americans should not believe a key scene in that movie it shows waterboarding and other interrogation techniques allegedly used to locate bin laden. lawmakers say its a dangerous mix of fact and fiction. >> i think they should acknowledge that they were given wrong information. they had a lot of access to the cia. in fact one of the investigations going on about some of the information that they used. >> the filmmakers are standing by the scene. since september an american pasto...