Pentagon Movie- and Myth-Making

There’s an inter­est­ing con­ver­sa­tion over at Talk­Left about the Pen­tagon’s vet­ting of movie scripts. One of the next movies they’re work­ing on is a drama­ti­za­tion of the the already highly-embellished sto­ry of the “res­cue” of Pri­vate Jes­si­ca Lynch in Iraq (one’s tempt­ed to ask whether a movie about her could even say “Based on a True Story”).