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HUFFINGTON v o i / 02.10-17.13 c e s alex gibney Jessica Chastain plays CIA operative Maya in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty. ©2012 ZERO DARK THIRTY, LLC. zero dark thirty’s wrong and dangerous conclusion T’S DIFFICULT FOR one filmmaker to criticize another. That’s a job best left to critics. However, in the case of Zero Dark Thirty, an issue that is central to the film — torture — is so important that I feel I must say something. Mark Boal and I Kathryn Bigelow have been irresponsible and inaccurate in the way they have treated this issue in their film. I am not alone in that view. The film conveys the unmistakable conclusion that torture led to the death of Osama bin Laden. That’s wrong and dangerously so, precisely because the