RICH LOWRY

Washington vs. ‘Zero Dark Thirty’

In “Zero Dark Thirty,” CIA characters warn of congressmen coming after them for running the agency’s interrogation program. As it happens, they could have said the same thing about making a movie about the agency’s interrogation program.

Washington is aghast at Kathryn Bigelow’s fantastically compelling new film. “Zero Dark Thirty” isn’t really about interrogation, although you could be forgiven for thinking so given all the debate over its scenes devoted to the agency’s harsh questioning of detainees after Sept. 11.

Sens. John McCain, Dianne Feinstein and Car...