In one of the many coincidences that occurs in this life, on Monday, I was home with some terrible cold bug. While being confined to the family room couch, my mind decided that it wanted to be entertained. Being blessed with Xfinity on Demand, I was able to access the Starz Movie roster. Scrolling down to the very end, I found a movie that I had been meaning to see but never had. The movie was entitled Zero Dark Thirty and it was about the hunt for Usama Bin Laden. In the movie, there are graphic depictions of what the CIA terms "enhanced interrogation techniques" and, as portrayed in the movie, the enhanced interrogation techniques proved to be a valuable tool that directly led to the discovery of Bin Laden's courier and ultimately to the discovery of Bin Laden himself.
As fate would have it, the next day, California's Senator, Dianne Feinstein, gave an hour long presentation on the immorality and ineffectiveness of the enhanced interrogation techniques that had been displayed in the movie Zero Dark Thirty and which had actually been utilized by the CIA. The Senate's Majority Report openly criticized and condemned the use of the "enhanced interrogation techniques" as torture and clearly aired the CIA's "dirty linen" as being something that runs counter to the values of America.
And yet, while listening to Senator Feinstein's remarks, I could not relinquish the images from the movie Zero Dark Thirty. Those images led me today to take a look at the Senate Minority Report which appears to support the images from the movie Zero Dark Thirty and the notion that the use of enhance interrogation techniques -- the use of torture -- did in fact lead to the discovery, and elimination, of Usama Bin Laden.
Perhaps, I am being misled. But by whom?
Peace.
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