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Naomi Wolf: A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty’s apology for torture

Wolf-zilla in The Guardian ..

There are filmmakers who work very hard to produce films that are actually “based on real events”: they are called documentarians. Alex Gibney, in Taxi to the Dark Side, and Rory Kennedy, in Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, have both produced true and sourceable documentary films about what your script blithely calls “the detainee program” – that is, the regime of torture to generate false confessions at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib – which your script claims led straight to Bin Laden. Fine, fellow reporter: produce your sources. Provide your evidence that torture produced lifesaving – or any – worthwhile intelligence. But you can’t present evidence for this claim. Because it does not exist .. In a time of darkness in America, you are being feted by Hollywood, and hailed by major media. But to me, the path your career has now taken reminds of no one so much as that other female film pioneer who became, eventually, an apologist for evil: Leni Riefenstahl .. Like Riefenstahl, you are a great artist. But now you will be remembered forever as torture’s handmaiden

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2 Responses to “Naomi Wolf: A letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty’s apology for torture”

  1. Ian Alterman said:

    This is both true and laudable. Wolf is to be commended for taking this on. Yet…

    I wish she would really “go the distance” re truth and discuss the fact that the entire operation was a phony, and that the person killed at Abbottabad was NOT Osama bin Laden. This has not only been proven by forensic science, but former Navy SEALs have said that a number of “facts” about the raid simply don’t add up from a SEAL point of view – not least the entire “downed helicopter” claim vis-a-vis the remains left behind. Said one former SEAL demolitions specialist: “What? Leaving a piece of a prototype stealth helicopter behind? Bullshit! When SEALs blow shit up, there’s nothing left!” That’s just one of a number of additional pieces of circumstantial evidence supporting the fact that OBL was NOT killed in Abbottabad. Indeed, there is also substantial evidence that by the time of the raid, OBL had been dead for AT LEAST five to six years, if not longer.

    Even if Wolf is not ready to accept the truth of 9/11 (as a “false flag” attack in which individuals and agencies of the U.S. government were complicit), this one is even more of a no-brainer.

    Peace.

    Posted on 11-Jan-13 at 7:28 pm | Permalink
  2. Mike Blaxill said:

    all very true .. my theory (as with other writers who have appropriate outrage like Hedges and Greenwald) is she is aware of the truth but can’t go there, yet .. so what we’re left with for now is a public relations battle over whatever story the CIA/WH decides to spin

    really awful that this movie is laying down the myth of catching OBL thru torture .. shame on them

    Posted on 12-Jan-13 at 8:27 am | Permalink

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