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Dec 22, 2014 · In the film Zero Dark Thirty, she was the persistent, conscientious CIA officer who finally tracked Osama bin Laden to his lair. In real life, her identity and current position were carefully hidden - until now.
By Greg Miller. December 10, 2012 at 8:18 p.m. EST. She was a real-life heroine of the CIA hunt for Osama bin Laden, a headstrong young operative whose work tracking the al-Qaeda leader...
Dec 12, 2012 · A CIA operative since before 9/11, she was stationed in Islamabad in the years before the raid, where she worked to uncover the network of couriers that would eventually lead to Bin Laden....
Dec 21, 2014 · December 21, 2014. In the film ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ she was known as ‘Maya,’ the CIA analyst who spent years doggedly tracking down Osama bin Laden, then identifying his body when US Navy...
- The Film Exaggerates The Government's Use of Torture
- The Film's Depiction of Jennifer Matthews Was Not Accurate
- The Detainees Did Not Reveal Any Useful Information in The Capture of Bin Laden
- The Film Gives Too Much Credit to One Individual
From the beginning of Zero Dark Thirty, which is included among the most brutal torture scenes in movies, the American government is shown to have no issue with using extreme interrogation methods on its prisoners. Audiences are immediately introduced to Jason Clarke's character, Dan, through a brutal torture sequence, in which he attempts to extra...
Although her name wasn't used in Zero Dark Thirty, Jennifer Ehle's character, Jessica, was based on a real-life CIA Agent named Jennifer Matthews, whose work in the Osama bin Laden investigation eventually led to her own death in a suicide bombing. In the movie, she only appears briefly to work with Jessica Chastain's character, Maya, when setting ...
It's immediately clear in Zero Dark Thirtythat the American military intends to extract information from terrorist detainees, and in the end, that's exactly how they track down Osama bin Laden, through his associates. However, this is not actually how the capture went down in reality. The detainees weren't that useful to the CIA — most of them refu...
Although Zero Dark Thirty is considered one of Jessica Chastain's best movies to date, her character is given way too much credit for what occurs. The search for Osama bin Laden and his associates was one of the largest and highest-effort pursuits ever practiced by American forces. There were thousands of CIA operatives who dedicated several years ...
- Jack Walters
Jan 14, 2013 · Maya is widely assumed to be based on a real CIA agent referred to as “Jen” in No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden.
Dec 20, 2014 · In the film Zero Dark Thirty, she was the persistent, conscientious CIA officer who finally tracked Osama bin Laden to his lair. In real life, her identity and current position were...
