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Rep King says Obama administration gave Hollywood access to Bin Laden hunter info

King claims unusual access could endanger the unit

DARA KELLY,

IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Friday, August 12, 2011, 5:05 AM

Updated Friday, August 12, 2011, 5:11 AM

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Republican Congressman Peter King, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, has expressed alarm that a pair of celebrated filmmakers may have been given access to the inner workings of the Navy SEAL unit who killed Osama bin Laden.

After a New York Times report this week that claimed some military officers were shocked when writer Mark Boal showed up at a CIA ceremony in honor of the celebrated Team 6, King called for an inquiry into the access granted to filmmakers for a movie about the commandos.

Boal, alongside director Kathryn Bigelow, wrote the Oscar-winning Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker, and it's understood he is now writing a film about the Navy SEAL unit.

King objects to their high level access and claimed that letting the pair follow the inner workings of the SEAL Team 6 could cost lives.
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In a letter dated August 10, King asked for an investigation into 'ongoing leaks of classified information regarding sensitive military operations.'

In response the White House spokesman Jay Carney called King’s claims 'ridiculous.' Carney said: 'I would hope that as we face the continued threat from terrorism, the House Committee on Homeland Security would have more important topics to discuss than a movie.'

Bigelow’s new film, which is still untitled, is scheduled for release on October 12 – less than a month before the presidential election.

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seanomelbourne | Aug 13, 2011, 10:42 PM EDT

kathy56 the right made a horrible movie starring a 2nd.rate actor(J.Wayne) called "the Green Beret" and used right wing actors to promote it's illegal wars.You seem to be a spiteful narrow minded person.

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Collette2 | Aug 12, 2011, 09:19 PM EDT

There's been an ill wind blowing over America in recent times, the way they published Saddam Hussein a one time "friend for expediency" of the Bush family, all over the media being flead after his capture sent chills down one back and the sign of worse things to come I'm afraid.

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kathy56 | Aug 12, 2011, 07:59 PM EDT

It is so obvious that Obama and team would do something like this inorder to get re-elected..Hollywood has used their "movies before to sway public opinion..they are so stupid as to believe that the everyday American will actully not see this as a political film and a pro Obama one at that is laughable...that has been to problem with this administration and left wing extremist,somehoe they have convinced themselves to "all Knowing" and the rest of us are dumb sheeple...wellthe laugh will be on them election night in 2012...unless of cours ACORN starts signing up the Muppets as voters,like Minnie and Mickey in 2008..they want be able to intimidate us ,like the black panthers did the little old ladies...we will be waiting for them..so go ahead obama do THE MOVIE AND PUT OUR SONS,HUSBANDS,BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN HARMS WAY,WE WILL BEAT YOU DOWN !

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seanomelbourne | Aug 12, 2011, 06:56 PM EDT

Krazy King typical of his GOP ilk, he will use any lie he can to denigrate POTUS.

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EphraimKibbey | Aug 12, 2011, 02:58 PM EDT

So where was the investigation when Tom Clancy wrote "Rainbox 6?" Or when Clancy had the Japanese Airline pilot fly his airliner into a joint session of congress during the State of the Union Address thus making Jack Ryan a president who got to start with an all new legislative branch and then shortly later we had 9/11. Conspiracy theorists hate that things sometimes happen by chance.

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cillowen | Aug 12, 2011, 02:51 PM EDT

King is plainly demented - needs to get a release from that built up within him. Obama got our enemy in a manner that was clean and cheap. Bushy's approach was to look elsewhere and kill millions in Iraq. Methinks he did so to favor his daddy's BinLaden Carlyle partners. Give it up King you'll be into having people open up real truths on Repugs bent in the art of obstructionism.

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cillowen | Aug 12, 2011, 02:50 PM EDT

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Clancey | Aug 12, 2011, 02:08 PM EDT

Peter King isn't exactly the most credible guy around; a right-wing hysteric of the first order.

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Searlit | Aug 12, 2011, 12:14 PM EDT

He's worried about the Hollywood writers having access to the info after the fact, but where was he when the private army Blackwater were having their bare naked men parties?

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colkelley | Aug 12, 2011, 11:02 AM EDT

Hey cajuntom - make sure that you make your tinfoil hat from the heavy-duty stuff this time around...and avoid the alien probes.

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cajuntom | Aug 12, 2011, 10:45 AM EDT

How can you give so much credence to this "New World Order" crap? Bin Laden died from Kidney disease and Marfans Syndrome in 2001. You cannot continue to support these people. You are either naive or party to their centuries-old agenda.

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