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Mayer, the New Yorker writer whose work on CIA torture has been exemplary, explains that the team behind Zero Dark Thirty was conned by the CIA.

“The CIA’s business is seduction, basically,” she says in the documentary. “And to seduce Hollywood producers, I mean they are easy marks compared to some of the people that the CIA has to go after.”

Another journalist, Michael Isikoff, connects the final dots by pointing out the harm caused by political lies that find their way into blockbuster films.

“Movies like Zero Dark Thirty have a huge impact,” he says. “More people see them, and more people get their impressions about what happened from a movie like that than they do from countless news stories or TV spots.”

The Frontline documentary could not come at a better moment. Just last week, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published a 10,000-word story in the London Review of Books that challenged much of the official narrative about the hunt for bin Laden. You don’t have to believe everything Hersh wrote — and I don’t, including the reference to SEAL team members throwing some of bin Laden’s corpse over the Hindu Kush — to appreciate the debate he has re-opened over the considerable holes in the government’s story.

kalm wrote:“And to seduce Hollywood producers, I mean they are easy marks compared to some of the people that the CIA has to go after.”

ASUG8 wrote:When you take a government that lies to it's people coupled with an entertainment machine that bends the truth it makes you question the filmed "historical" account of nearly anything. I wonder how true "Captain Phillips" was.

Cluck U wrote:

ASUG8 wrote:When you take a government that lies to it's people coupled with an entertainment machine that bends the truth it makes you question the filmed "historical" account of nearly anything. I wonder how true "Captain Phillips" was.

Great...next you are gong to tell me that Captain America was fabricated.

Pwns wrote:You mean the movie about the Valerie Plame saga might have also played loose with the facts?

ASUG8 wrote:When you take a government that lies to it's people coupled with an entertainment machine that bends the truth it makes you question the filmed "historical" account of nearly anything. I wonder how true "Captain Phillips" was.

Keep the citizens worked up about terrorism both homegrown and abroad and they'll support any military industrial cocktail or fourth amendment violations the NSA and other parts of the government can dream up.

expandspanos wrote:

ASUG8 wrote:When you take a government that lies to it's people coupled with an entertainment machine that bends the truth it makes you question the filmed "historical" account of nearly anything. I wonder how true "Captain Phillips" was.

Keep the citizens worked up about terrorism both homegrown and abroad and they'll support any military industrial cocktail or fourth amendment violations the NSA and other parts of the government can dream up.

Holy ****, are people getting smarter around here?

Kind of like that "Killing Bin Laden" propaganda film total lie, what was it called.. eh, who gives a ****.

expandspanos wrote:

ASUG8 wrote:When you take a government that lies to it's people coupled with an entertainment machine that bends the truth it makes you question the filmed "historical" account of nearly anything. I wonder how true "Captain Phillips" was.

Keep the citizens worked up about terrorism both homegrown and abroad and they'll support any military industrial cocktail or fourth amendment violations the NSA and other parts of the government can dream up.

Holy shit, are people getting smarter around here?

Kind of like that "Killing Bin Laden" propaganda film total lie, what was it called.. eh, who gives a shit.

CID1990 wrote:

expandspanos wrote:
Holy ****, are people getting smarter around here?

Kind of like that "Killing Bin Laden" propaganda film total lie, what was it called.. eh, who gives a ****.

You're still an idiot. That never changes.