The Oscar-winning screenwriter Mark Boal is suing US president Barack Obama and the country’s federal government, according to Variety.
The lawsuit is against Obama, defence secretary Ash Carter and army prosecutor Justin Oshana.
Boal, who also wrote the screenplay for The Hurt Locker, has filed a lawsuit in response to the subpoenaing of interviews he conducted with former PoW Bowe Bergdahl, who was held by the Taliban for five years and subsequently accused of deserting the US army.
“Mark Boal fully supports the military justice system and believes that Bergdahl has to face the music in a fair judicial process,” said his lawyer, Jean-Paul Jassy.