Filmmaker and screenwriter Mark Boal Kathryn Bigelow responded Wednesday charges that her film on the capture of bin Laden as a ploy to boost the reelection campaign of President.
The New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd wrote on Sunday that the Obama administration is granting the filmmakers access to the benefit of the president election. "How Obama country hoped the film for October 12, 2012 is planned - perfectly timed to give a boost home stretch of a campaign that has become more difficult to give," Dowd wrote: "The filmmakers have high access to the secret mission in the history of a government. that attempts to more people has to throw in jail for disclosing classified information the Bush administration. "
Bigelow and Boal, who has worked with Oscar-winning film The Hurt Locker denied the proposal published on Wednesday in a joint statement, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter, and elsewhere.
"Our next film project for the continuation of decades of bin Laden was in the works for many years and involves the joint efforts of the three administrations, including President Clinton, Bush and Obama:" In addition to the Defense Department and the CIA, they say. "It was an American triumph, both heroic and non-partisan," she said of the mission, "and there is no basis for making our film is represented on this otherwise great victory."
Rep. Peter King (RN.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security, to be called yesterday for an investigation into the allegations and access classified information shared benefit policy.
"The first duty of government declassification is to create comprehensive reports to Congress and the American people, in an effort to build public confidence through transparency of government," King wrote in a letter to the Department of Defense Inspector General Gordon Heddell and the CIA Inspector General David Buckley. "However, is this supposed cooperation is an obligation of transparency for a cinematic view of history."
The White House has denied the allegations Wednesday and immediately the king said no classified information was released. "The claims are ridiculous," White House spokesman Jay Carney said at a news conference. Carney added that, when writers and filmmakers ask to speak with officials of the administration, White House is just trying to ensure strength and accuracy.
"We do not discuss classified information. And I hope we face a continuing threat of terrorism, would House Committee on Homeland Security have more important things to discuss a film," said Carney.
Philip Strub, the Pentagon's director of entertainment media, confirmed CNN that he had a meeting with Bigelow and his team, but added: "We go to great lengths not to reveal classified information." The door to speak for the Pentagon said Col. David Lapan Bigelow team had other meetings of the Department of Defense offers the kind of Pentagon apparently the filmmakers settled on a regular basis.
Even some leftist critics - who protest to the king through a partisan lens - that this component could be good for transparency.
"Regardless of the motives opportunistic King of the recent movement creates the possibility for a further examination of how our government as a whole - whether Democrat or Republican administrations - now regularly and systematically used taxpayer resources to our popular culture to permeate" movie "militaristic ideology, and uses the same taxpayer resources to try to spread anti-military intelligence to prevent, "writes author and liberal talk radio host, David Sirota in Salon.