Three senators requested clarification on statements by Acting CIA Director Michael Morell about the role of torture in capturing Osama bin Laden, Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s office announced Thursday. The request comes after comments Morell made on the use of torture in “Zero Dark Thirty,” the film about the search for and capture of Obama bin Laden.
The letter, from Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) and Senate Armed Service Committee Ranking Member John McCain (R-Ariz.), is dated Dec. 31.
Feinstein’s office noted Thursday that the three senators had sent an earlier letter to Morell on Dec. 19 in which they requested all the documents that the CIA had shared with the filmmakers.
