Bin Laden film ‘inaccuracies’ slammed

Three top US senators, including John McCain, the former White House hopeful, slammed a new Osama bin Laden manhunt film for suggesting torture helped find the al Qaeda chief.

In a letter to Michael Lynton, head of Sony Pictures, Democratic senators Diane Feinstein and Carl Levin and Republican McCain took issue with Zero Dark Thirty, the new film by Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow.

“The film graphically depicts CIA officers repeatedly torturing detainees and then credits these detainees with providing critical lead information on the courier that led to” bin Laden, they wrote.

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