Did Hollywood get classified info on Osama raid?

When your chances of re-election look bleaker by the day, what do you do? Well, you might consider giving a sympathic, but top-notch, Hollywood moviemaker access to classified information about your one big accomplishment in office -- the killing of Osama bin Laden -- and time it so the film hits the theaters one month before the election.

It's hard to imagine any president doing that. But you must wonder whether that is exactly what the Obama Administration has done.

Director Kathryn Bigelow ("The Hurt Locker") plans to make the movie on the OBL killing. It was a brilliant Navy Seal mission with plenty of accolades to go around, especially to the commander in chief who authorized the mission.

The question is how much access has Bigelow's crew had to government sources? The WH admits that it has been talking with Bigelow, and Rep. Peter T. King (R-N.Y.) believes that the moviemaker was also given access to some reluctant members of the CIA.

King, who is the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, wants to know more about that interaction to see if any classified information was given to the film crew.

WH spokesweasel Jay Carney responded: "I would hope that ... the House Committee on Homeland Security would have more important topics to discuss than a movie."

But that that's not the question, is it? The question is the violation of classified information for the basest of reasons — political re-election.

King righteously responds: "I'm very concerned that any sensitive information could be disclosed in a movie," King said in a phone interview. "The procedures and operations that we used in this raid are very likely what we'll use in other raids. There's no way a director would know what could be tipping off the enemy."

You'd think the president would be making that statement given all that we know so far about this movie. But, curiously, he is not.

There's a lot of smoke here. Someone should at least take a look to see if there's a fire.