"Nothing But The Truth": An Exclusive Clip From Rod Lurie's New Film

Writer-director and Huffington Post blogger Rod Lurie's new film "Nothing But the Truth" captures the story of a young journalist (Kate Beckinsale) who publishes an explosive story in her daily D.C. paper that reveals the identity of a covert CIA agent (Vera Farmiga) and triggers an investigation into who was the source of the leak. Lurie, in a HuffPost blog post earlier this month, described the film as "a thriller about how far a journalist will go to protect a source."

The film, with shades of Judith Miller, opens December 17th in New York and December 19th in Los Angeles and along with Beckinsale and Farmiga, stars Alan Alda, Angela Bassett, Matt Dillon, David Schwimmer and Noah Wyle.

Here's an exclusive clip from Rod Lurie's "Nothing But the Truth":

Comments

[Greydaysoul]

Maybe you don't agree with the film itself, but it will start a dialogue about the real events, Isn't that what movies are supposed to do.

[robbor]

WATCH: An Exclusive Clip From Judith Miller-Inspired "Nothing But The Truth"..............no thanks

[David Eisenbach]

To find out the real Judith Miller story check out my new book: "The Kingmakers: How the Media Threatens Out Security and Democracy."
http://www.amazon.com/Kingmakers-Media-Threatens-Security-Democracy/dp/159777586X

[cliffhammond]

So, was that not the review you were looking for?

[cliffhammond]

I'm not sure I'm getting the message about Judith Miller that the movie may want to promote. That she was probably a paid disinformation agent of the CIA who worked in cooperation with Ahmed Chalabi in helping to manufacture a duplicitous rationale for the war in Iraq, traipsed around Iraq with Chalabi embedded in U.S. forces providing WMD PR for the Bush Administration and then turned the First Amendment on its head defending the OVP in it's own disinformation campaign that fell not too short of treason seems to have escaped many who thought of her as a heroine.

I only regret that the NYTimes scapegoated her to escape their own share of accountability in participating in the propaganda charades of the Vice President Cheney and President Howdy Doody.

Thanks, but I'll probably skip the movie not wanting to get nauseated all over again watching all the "beautiful people" serve the machine.

[cliffhammond]

I made an error by associating Miller and Chalabi with CIA. I should have placed them with the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, Cheney and Rumsfeld's "B-Team" of hawk-minded neocons who they transferred from the CIA to the Pentagon when Bush-43 gained office. Sometimes the CIA meme gets to be so habitual that even when you know better you find yourself saying it without thinking. Indeed, Cheney and Bush attempted to blame CIA for "bad intelligence" once their lies began to unravel before their eyes. They even got Tenet to take the fall. Then Cheney appointed a hatchet man to go in and pruge the CIA loyalists who were refusing to drink the neocon koolaide. They countered by exposing the poker parties and table dances and even brought the D.C. Madam into the fray before Cheney had her "taken care of."

I'm thinking you guys really didn't mean to compare the protagonist of your movie with Judith Miller. I hope you realize your mistake like I did in associating Miller with CIA.