In a strongly worded letter, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Wednesday that the film’s producers should make clear that depictions of torture are “not based on the facts, but rather part of the film’s fictional narrative.”

“Regardless of what message the filmmakers intended to convey, the movie clearly implies that the CIA’s coercive interrogation techniques were effective in eliciting important information related to a courier for Usama Bin Laden. We have reviewed CIA records and know that this is incorrect,” the senators wrote.

McCain, who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam and opposes waterboarding, has argued before that harsh interrogation techniques used by the CIA on senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed did not yield information that helped locate bin Laden. In their letter, the senators cited unclassified information about the bin Laden raid, including evidence that the CIA first learned of the existence of bin Laden’s courier “through means unrelated to the CIA detention and interrogation program.”

The senators also noted that the CIA detainee who provided the initial tips about bin Laden’s courier did so before being subjected to coercive interrogation techniques.

The letter was addressed to Michael Lynton, chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment. A Sony spokesperson did not immediately respond to requests for comment.