Rep. Peter King (R-NY) has written a letter to the Defense Department and the CIA requesting that they investigate whether the White House leaked classified information to Hurt Locker filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow about the raid that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.King, who Chairs the Homeland Security Committee, wrote a letter to the Inspectors General at the Department of Defense and CIA in response to a column by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. Dowd claimed Saturday that Bigelow and Mark Boal, who are making a movie about the raid on the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, are “getting top-level access to the most classified mission in history from an administration that has tried to throw more people in jail for leaking classified information than the Bush administration.”
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