Osama bin Laden film 'targets Obama administration over waterboarding' The whole first fifteen minutes or so is taken up with the waterboarding of a prisoner. Once you see it, you'll be writing to your congressman to prevent it from happening again. The scene comes after the Obama administration offered the filmmakers, director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal, extraordinary levels of access. The pair were allowed inside the CIA vaults, where planning for the Bin Laden mission took place. They were allowed to meet White House officials and given access to one of the SEAL Team planners and commanders involved in the mission. Congressman Peter King, the Republican head of the House Committee on Homeland Security, previously called for an investigation into whether the pair were provided with classified information during the film's production. Mr Boal has denied it, saying: "I certainly did a lot of homework, but I never asked for classified material. To my knowledge I never received any. The US use of the controversial technique, which involves pouring water on the mouth and nose of a suspect thus creating the feeling of drowning, has been widely debated. In 2011, the CIA director Leon Panetta appeared to admit that waterboarding had been used to elicit information from suspects during the hunt for Bin Laden. Following the al-Qaeda leader's death, he said: "In the intelligence business you work from a lot of sources of information and that was true here. It's a little difficult to say it was due just to one source of information that we got. I think some of the detainees clearly were, you know, they used these enhanced interrogation techniques against some of these detainees.