Judicial Watch - The Associated Press - Pentagon - Too Close To Filmmakers

By LARRY MARGASAK, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) A House committee chairman charged Wednesday that the CIA and Defense Department jeopardized country's safety measures simply by cooperating too carefully with filmmakers creating a motion picture about the raid of which killed Osama bin Laden.

Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King. R-N.Y., first elevated questions concerning the bin Laden motion picture past summer, but explained newly launched papers confirm his or her suspicions.

The filmmakers are generally director Kathryn Bigelow plus screenwriter Mark Boal, who seem to received Academy Awards for the film "The Hurt Locker."

King referred to documents purchased by simply Judicial Watch in a new Freedom of Information Act request. He stated this filmmakers received "extremely close, unprecedented, and also possibly dangerous collaboration" from the Obama administration.

Judicial Watch explained the particular files show that this Defense Department given Bigelow and Boal having access to your "planner, operator and commander of SEAL Team 6" the system of which wiped out bin Laden inside Pakistan.

Other documents, Judicial Watch said, present which the particular filmmakers met by using White House officials about no less than a couple of periods about the film. A CIA e mail indicates that Bigelow in addition to Boal ended up pleasant relief usage of "the vault," which usually is definitely described as the CIA developing where some of the tactical preparing for your raid needed place, Judicial Watch said..

Pentagon media secretary George Little disputed a number of the allegations, He reported that though a advisor had been recommended as a possible position involving phone regarding data on the Osama bin Laden raid, a getting together with involving this planner along with the filmmakers never occurred.

He stated the actual Defense Department engages over a regular schedule when using the celebration community on video projects, along with the intention should be to "make them when natural as possible. We believe this is certainly a crucial service this most of us provide."

Little extra that Pentagon authorities managed speak to movie makers with the video however said, "We have got by no means analyzed a script belonging to the movie."

Little additionally said which the cooperation has been a strong make an effort to boost President Barack Obama's election chances, as well as claimed that motion picture wouldn't end up being away till following on from the election.

There ended up being no instant brief review with the CIA or perhaps the White House.