Zero Dark Thirty Quotes

• 'Argo,' 'Lincoln,' and 'Zero Dark Thirty,' three films honored with Best Picture Oscar nominations, lionize their Washington-anchored protagonists as crafty, competent, and virtually incorruptible.

  Ron Fournier

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• 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a disturbing, fantastically-made movie. It will make you hate torture.

  Michael Moore

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  "In Defense of Zero Dark Thirty" by Michael Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• What I want you to know is that 'Zero Dark Thirty' is a dramatization, not a realistic portrayal of the facts.

  Michael Morell

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  www.cia.gov. December 21, 2012.

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• A political decision has been made not to irritate the intelligence community. The spy agencies are really embarrassed, they're really sore - the revelations really hurt their mystique. The last ten years, they were getting the Zero Dark Thirty treatment - they're the heroes. The surveillance revelations bring them back to Big Brother kind of narratives, and they don't like that at all.

  Edward Snowden

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  "Edward Snowden: A 'Nation' Interview". Interview with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Stephen F. Cohen, www.thenation.com. October 28, 2014.

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• There is a real attempt to sanitize the CIA killings and to glorify the CIA and to give it a new face. That's what happened with Zero Dark Thirty, that's what happened with Michelle Obama... When she appeared my jaw dropped; I couldn't believe it... These were really a disgusting propaganda films, glorifying the role of the CIA.

  Medea Benjamin

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  Source: progressive.org

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• The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree... The CIA has become a death squad and to see these films [ like Zero Dark Thirty] get so much acclaim at the time when the CIA is in its rogue killing phase is very disturbing.

  Medea Benjamin

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  Source: progressive.org

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