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TIL that during an awards ceremony for the Seal Team 6 operators who were on the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden, CIA Director Leon Panetta disclosed classified information in a speech. One of the attendees was Mark Boal, who would go on to write the script for Zero Dark Thirty

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