The only interesting part of this film was the operation of the team itself. Bigelow didn't understand what she was looking at when she made this film. She played politics.
The courier was there in the files of the USA the entire time. Cheney and Bush instituted torture and it was never necessary. The torture had absolutely nothing to do with the death of Osama bin Laden. The CIA under Bush lost it's focus and deferred to an Executive Branch's demands when that Executive Branch was already out of control and in violation of international laws and the USA Constitution.
The CIA never did the ground work before they embarked on torturing prisoners. They never sifted through files and put pieces together. They were focused on brutalizing prisoners and that was their only focus until President Obama came into office and the demands to end torture and return to intelligence and police work was instituted.
The information was there the entire time. Right under their noses and for nine years the CIA ignored it while there were demands made by the Bush Administration for results from torture. It was hideous, ridiculous, added to enough costs of war, prolonged the war and was a propaganda tool to enhance the culture of fear in the USA.
If Osama bin Laden was captured and/or killed within the first year or two of the Afghanistan War, it would have been over. Al Qaeda would be dead, there would be no offspring from al Qaeda, the USA would no longer need the fly zone over Pakistan and the war into Iraq would have been realized for what it was. UNNECESSARY.
Bigelow missed the entire reality of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. The evidence was there to find and to say torture was necessary completely dismisses the FACT no one had looked for him in the face of compelling information otherwise. The CIA lost it's way and it has been a growing snowball ever since. They never applied BASIC intelligence work to finding the global criminal. Never, not one day in the Bush/Cheney White House did the CIA conduct itself as it should.
That is the real story and Bigelow missed it completely.
Posted: 09/14/2012 5:00 pm
...I served my country, (click here) loyally and well, as a covert CIA operations officer focused on stopping nuclear weapon proliferation until the Bush administration decided to betray my secret identity as payback for my husband questioning the White House's justification for the Iraq War. The lesson was simple: If you offer the public a true story that is at odds with what the government wants you to know, they will stop at nothing to destroy you, your reputation, and the reputations of the people around you....
What was that? No Yellow Cake? Really.
Stopping nuclear weapon proliferation? Why would anyone want to do that if Cheney was counting on a limited nuclear engagement with Russia?
What Bigelow did is what everyone else did during the Bush years, they dove into lies and imagineering for money. So much for ethics and being a patriotic American, that was left up to the fools that didn't see the gravy train or wouldn't be a part of it.
