A scene from Zero Dark Thirty 2012
CIA Director
[In a CIA Conference room with CIA Director, his deputies (including George, Dan, the Wolf, Steve) and Maya]

I'm about to go look the President in the eye, and what I'd like to know, no **** bullshit, is where everyone stands on this thing. Now, very simply, is he there, or is he not **** there?

Deputy Director

We all come at this through the filter of our own past experiences. I remember "Iraq WMD" very clearly, I fronted that, and I can tell you the case for that was much stronger than this case.

CIA Director

A ****in' yes or a no.

Deputy Director

We don't deal in certainty, we deal in probability. I'd say there's a sixty percent probability he's there.

The Wolf

I concur. Sixty percent.

George

I'm at eighty percent. Their OPSEC is what convinces me.

CIA Director

You guys ever agree on anything?

Dan

Well, I agree with sixty, we're basing this mostly on detainee reporting and I spent a bunch of time in those rooms. Who knows? I'd say it's a soft sixty, sir. I'm virtually certain there's some high value target there, I'm just not sure it's bin Laden.

CIA Director

This is a cluster-****, isn't it?

Jeremy

I'd like to know what Maya thinks...

Deputy Director

We're all incorporating her assessment into ours...

Maya
[interrupting]

A hundred percent he's there. Okay, fine, ninety-five percent because I know how certainty freaks you guys out, but it's a hundred.

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