"The critical acclaim for the new Kathryn Bigelow movie "Zero Dark Thirty" has renewed the debate on the efficacy of torture. The movie dramatizes the decade-long effort to find and eventually kill Osama bin Laden. In a riveting opening section, the film obliquely credits the discovery of the key piece of information in the search for Bin Laden to the torture of an Al Qaeda prisoner held by the CIA. This is at odds with the facts as they have been recounted by journalists reporting on the manhunt, by Obama administration intelligence officials and by legislative leaders."* There's a torture myth being brought on in scenes of Zero Dark Thirty, in which torture is shown as an effective method which lead U.S. forces to Osama Bin Laden. But does it? Did it work when Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, under torture, sent frustrated FBI counter-terrorism agents on literal goose chases? Cenk Uygur breaks down the misleading efficiency of torture. Read more from Terry McDermott/ LA Times: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/23/opinion/la-oe-1223-mcdermott-torture-bigelow-zero-dark-20121223
