Navy Seal and SOCOM commander Admiral McRaven responded at a press conference yesterday:
"Speaking near the end of his press conference - which focused on how international allies are working together, how operators and enemies use social media and efforts to deter the relationship between drug dealers and terrorists in Colombia - McRaven said neither he nor anyone at the command was involved in the film.
"I have not had any interaction nor has anyone at U.S. Socom had any interaction with the folks making this movie," said McRaven. "We have not provided any planners ... the fact of the matter is we have not done that."
McRaven said the decision to cooperate with director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal is ultimately "above U.S. Socom.
"However if asked to do that…we would be happy to provide folks not involved in the raid but could in fact validate any of the facts or misconceptions."
On Thursday, the Department of Defense released a statement saying the agency "regularly engages with the entertainment industry'' but did not provide any access to members of the team that killed bin Laden.
" Engaging on this project was proper and done with a desire to inform, based on unclassified information, about one of the top military and intelligence successes in a generation," the Defense Department said in the statement."
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"Speaking near the end of his press conference - which focused on how international allies are working together, how operators and enemies use social media and efforts to deter the relationship between drug dealers and terrorists in Colombia - McRaven said neither he nor anyone at the command was involved in the film.
"I have not had any interaction nor has anyone at U.S. Socom had any interaction with the folks making this movie," said McRaven. "We have not provided any planners ... the fact of the matter is we have not done that."
McRaven said the decision to cooperate with director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal is ultimately "above U.S. Socom.
"However if asked to do that…we would be happy to provide folks not involved in the raid but could in fact validate any of the facts or misconceptions."
On Thursday, the Department of Defense released a statement saying the agency "regularly engages with the entertainment industry'' but did not provide any access to members of the team that killed bin Laden.
" Engaging on this project was proper and done with a desire to inform, based on unclassified information, about one of the top military and intelligence successes in a generation," the Defense Department said in the statement."