Top-Secret Access to Bin Laden Raid for Kathryn Bigelow?

In a very odd sort of news, Kathryn Bigelow, the Oscar-wining director of The Hurt Locker, is accused of having Top-Secret access to information about the killing of Osama bin Laden.  This might not be so much of an attack on the director for being a civilian and reading all the secret details, but on President Obama and the White House "granting" the rights to Bigelow.  How this accusation all started and the details is actually a bit suspicious and interesting.

To start, Bigelow has a film in development that chronicles the events leading up to the raid that eventually killed Bin Laden which gained lots of steam after the killing.  Now, in an August 6th edition of The New York Times, Columnist Maureen Dowd wrote that the White House administration are giving "top level access to the most classified mission in history."  Because of this claim, New York representative Peter T. King, chairman of the House committee of Homeland Security, expressed his concern of leaking sensitive information regarding military operations to CIA and Pentagon officials.  White House Press Secretary Jay Carney denied these accusations and stated that the information providing Bigelow and her crew is the same as they provided for the media.  

 While information leak is certainly bad, the information given to Bigelow is more likely the same as "advisors" helping out on a spy and military films.  Plus, Dowd's statement was in the Op-Ed section, which it looks like it is an opinion and it might not be true.  But if you look at the release date of Kill Bin Laden (Oct. 12th, 2012), then the accusation might hold water.  That release date is just less than a month before the general election, which President Obama is up for reelection.  How great would a movie be to tilt undecided voters toward the man that ordered the raid?  However, this might be just the continuation of political gridlock and Republicans are just attacking the president on any chance they get.   

Hollywood has a history of making movies that had very sensitive content and also movies that deal with a lot of secret stuff.  Writers are actually really good at making dramatic scenes and probably some spy and political movies are truer than fiction.  They also have "advisors," people that may or may not be affiliated with some top secret organization and what-not.  There's even books about secret things happening in the world and they change names, dramatize some parts, or alter it in any kind of way.  

Is secret and sensitive information being passed onto the director, most likely no (military information is highly classified and I'm pretty sure military officials don't want ANYONE to look at them).  But since President Obama is up for reelection, the administration might be guiding the director on the operation and the raid.  Almost like a "you didn't hear this from me, but..."  

Obviously, the impact this movie already has is surprising and it hasn't even been filmed yet.  And that's why movies are more than just entertainment.

Comments

[Esse]

Interesting movie

[yit]

This is an obvious scam by the Obama administration and Hollywood to get Obama re-elected. Sad state of affairs.