FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 file photo, actress Jessica Chastain arrives at the premiere of the feature film "Zero Dark Thirty" at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Chastain stars as a dogged CIA officer in ?Zero Dark Thirty,? a performance that has already earned her best actress nominations from the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild. After a glut of films starring Chastain were released in 2011, the actress says: ?I never think about what?s next. I always just think: ?What haven?t I done yet?? (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 file photo, actress Jessica Chastain arrives at the premiere of the feature film "Zero Dark Thirty" at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Chastain stars as a dogged CIA officer in ?Zero Dark Thirty,? a performance that has already earned her best actress nominations from the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild. After a glut of films starring Chastain were released in 2011, the actress says: ?I never think about what?s next. I always just think: ?What haven?t I done yet?? (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - This undated publicity film image provided by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. shows Jessica Chastain playing a member of the elite team of spies and military operatives stationed in a covert base overseas who secretly devoted themselves to finding Osama Bin Laden in Columbia Pictures' gripping new thriller directed by Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty." (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jonathan Olley, File)
FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 10, 2012 file photo, actress Jessica Chastain arrives at the premiere of the feature film "Zero Dark Thirty" at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Chastain stars as a dogged CIA officer in ?Zero Dark Thirty,? a performance that has already earned her best actress nominations from the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild. After a glut of films starring Chastain were released in 2011, the actress says: ?I never think about what?s next. I always just think: ?What haven?t I done yet?? (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) ? The movie "Zero Dark Thirty" suggests the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques led the U.S. to Osama bin Laden. Sen. John McCain watched the movie Monday night and says it left him sick ? because it's wrong.
McCain, who spent 5 1/2 years enduring brutal treatment by his North Vietnamese captors during the Vietnam War, has insisted that the waterboarding of al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, did not provide information that led to the bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.
Yet the movie, of copy of which McCain said he received Monday, indicates that's how the United States found the al-Qaida leader. The filmmakers fell for it hook, line and sinker, McCain, R-Ariz., said Tuesday.
Last year, McCain asked then-CIA Director Leon Panetta for the facts, and he said the hunt for bin Laden did not begin with fresh information from Mohammed. In fact, the name of bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, came from a detainee held in another country.
"Not only did the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed not provide us with key leads on bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed, it actually produced false and misleading information," McCain said in a speech on the Senate floor.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, backed up McCain's assessment that waterboarding of Mohammed did not produce the tip that led to bin Laden.
McCain has said he opposes waterboarding, a technique that simulates drowning, and any form of torture tactics. He said they could be used against Americans and that their use damages the nation's character and reputation.
"I do not believe they are necessary to our success in our war against terrorists, as the advocates of these techniques claim they are," he said.
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