C.I.A Pressured Producers to Remove Torture Scenes from Zero Dark Thirty

The intelligence agency objected to two scenes of torture in the original script

Let's be clear about one thing. There is no such thing as Enhanced Interrogation  it is torture as defined by the Geneva Conventions which cover such areas as how prisoners of war are to handled to the treatment of refugees.   In no case in these treaties is torture condoned or approved.  Yet the Bush administration  with the help of John Yoo who authored several memos which using convoluted and twisted legal reasoning  gave the American government legal cover for torturing prisoners they believed held vital information which could be used to prosecute the so called war on terror. 

If, your the C.I.A which already has a tarnished image of course you'll pressure the producers of Zero Dark Thirty to remove scenes which don't exactly enhance your reputation.      

The dossier, released by a Freedom of Information Request to American news site Gawker, states that screenwriter Mark Boal and director Kathryn Bigelow spoke with the CIA about the portrayal of the agency in the film.

“From an Agency perspective, the purpose for these discussions was for OPA officers to help promote an appropriate portrayal of the Agency and the Bin Ladin operation,” it states.

The first relates to the film’s opening scene, which initially had Jessica Chastain’s character Maya interrogating a detainee using Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT). The final version, however, showed her observing the detainee as he was water-boarded and shoved into a tiny box during an interrogation.

Boal decided to remove the scene after the CIA “emphasised that substantive debriefers did not administer EITs, because in this scene [the detainee] had a non-interrogator, substantive debriefer assisting in a dosing technique.”