Bigelow maintains that everything in the film is based on first-hand accounts, but the waterboarding scene, which is likely to stir up controversy, appears to have strayed from real life…

In this week’s issue, Dexter Filkins talks to Kathryn Bigelow about making her new film on the killing of Osama bin Laden, “Zero Dark Thirty”: http://nyr.kr/SEeiCy

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Cartoon of the day. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/MLv8gn