08.11.11
The bin Laden dividend
From last week:
So where is the bin Laden dividend? Besides a week of celebration, the granting of access to the superdog on the trip — Cairo, and a story I declined to read in the New Yorker because it had been summarized so well everywhere else? Where did it go?
To Hollywood, of course. But you knew that [would happen.]
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, says he’s worried that the Obama administration will only be too happy to give sensitive details about the Navy SEAL mission to the Oscar-winning moviemakers behind the project.
White House spokesman Jay Carney suggests that King should have better things to do than complain about a movie.
King on Wednesday sought an investigation by the CIA and Pentagon inspectors general, wanting them to review the administration’s cooperation with director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal…
Peter King is regularly poison. But I’m going to side with him on this one, just for spite because this movie, if it becomes a hit, is just what the White House wants prior to the election.
The president really needs to be getting on with things, not giving leaks to Hollywood for the sake of a Patton-esque movie moment.
