Pentagon Threatens Legal Action Against Former SEAL Over Tell-All Book on Osama Bin Laden Raid
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, August 31, 2012, 7:00 AM
The Pentagon threatened legal action against the former Navy SEAL over his tell-all book on the Osama Bin Laden raid. The book, “No Easy Day,” contradicts the Obama White House’s official account of Bin Laden’s death.
The book will be released on September 4th.
ABC News reported:
The Pentagon has determined the former Navy SEAL who has authored a book about his role in the Osama bin Laden raid is in “material breach” of non-disclosure agreements and warned him it is considering legal action against him as a result.
It added that it is considering legal action against all those “acting in concert” with the SEAL on his book, “No Easy Day,” which is scheduled to be released Tuesday.
A letter by Pentagon general counsel Jeh Johnson informed the former SEAL that he had violated non-disclosure agreements against releasing classified information.
“In the judgment of the Department of Defense, you are in material breach and violation of the non-disclosure agreements you signed,” wrote Johnson. “Further public dissemination of your book will aggravate your breach and violation of your agreements.”
Johnson said the department is considering pursuing “all remedies legally available to us.”
The letter was addressed to the author’s pseudonym, “Mark Owen,” because the Pentagon will not publicly reveal the SEAL’s real name.
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Robodog7 commented:
Yet it was somehow OK for the WH to give Kathryn Bigelow full access to the material so that her movie can make Choombama look “gutsy”.
I ordered a copy from Amazon two weeks ago, I hope I still get it and it is not all redacted.
Campfollower commented:
I love how the Obama admin justifies its own leakage of national security secrets, but when a real operator talks — to set the record straight — they are going to pursue legal action?
Again, Obama hates the military. He’s directing this. Shame on him.
Mn Jim commented:
Biden outed Seal Team 6, making them and their families targets for reprisal. There was no reason to name the specific team that got OBL.
Ann Ominous commented:
Meanwhile Hasan (Ft. Hood massacre shooter) stalls his day of reckoning by getting into a pissing match with the judge over shaving his skanky whiskers.
Pentagon needs to get its priorities in order. This nitpicking can wait.
Cargosquid commented:
Whether the WH leaked or not, writing this book was wrong.
SPECOPS keeps its mouth SHUT. 2 wrongs do not make a right.
How would we like it if a disgruntled spook/Specops writes a book when a conservative President is in office?
FurryGuy commented:
Oh yes there was. It’s called Crass Political Partisanship. The SEALs were nothing but chits to be cashed in for Barry to get re-elected. He had to look tougher than Jean Francois Kerry, so why not step on the bodies of real heroes. He had every right to “spike the football” because he had to be forced to sit and watch live a close religious friend of his get “deaded”, a decision others had to make while he had to play yet another round of golf.
FurryGuy commented:
You must have been living in a different dimension to have missed the “tell all” books released during GW’s tenure in office, and after, so filled with lies they would have made excellent bovine manure fertilizer. The deliberate leaks by spooks and State Dept drones to the American Pravda propaganda complex were legion and legendary.
Dissent was Patriotic back then, if you don’t remember.
FurryGuy commented:
Anyone want to lay odds that the Pentagon General Counsel is someone that was appointed and/or promoted by Billy Jeff?
donh commented:
#1….” Yet it was somehow OK for the WH to give Kathryn Bigelow full access to the material so that her movie can make Choombama look “gutsy”.
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The helicopter crash that killed substantial number of Seal Team 6 member occurred within ONE MONTH of allowing communist agents in the front professions of Hollywood movie producers obtain hands on data of the Bin Laden Operation.
No ” Bradley Manning ” level investigation has taken place of this high level security breach that allowed potential agents of wartime enemies to gather intel on sensitive operations.
It is time for people on our side to STOP KEEPING SECRETS and bring it ALL out. All the vital record documents supressed by executive order….The TRUTH about the forged birth certificate…and all the other various fraudulant papers communist agents within our own government fabricated for Mr Barry Obama that are now sealed with a license to KILL anyone who nears revealing them.
Blue Hen commented:
I doubt that any legal action could be concluded by January 21 2013. If I’m right, then this will die a well deserved death. Especially in light of what the Pentagon did for the filmmakers.
Browncoat commented:
Personally, I would like to see the pictures of a dead Osama bin Laden. In fact, I think the American people who paid for this little expedition have a right to see the video of it going down — and maybe an independent analysis of DNA from the corpse. I don’t necessarily trust the military any more than I trust the rest of the government. It’s all about funding and kingdom-building within bureaucracies. The military is a deeply entrenched bureaucracy.
The guys with boots on the ground (figuratively speaking) that actually do our fighting for us deserve our respect. The upper echelons are populated with a lot of brass and BS.
kato commented:
I wonder which of our asskissing generals was ordered by Valerie Jarrett to act on this.
It would have been nice if the careerists at the Pentagon had shown the same level of outrage at the Bradley Manning theft of classified documents.
donh commented:
Also note how the book was written under a pseudoname and the government OUTED his real name within a couple days of his book hitting main stream media….The Valerie Plame treatment…which now puts him and everyone he knows in personal danger….and he’s not whining about it either like Valerie Plame did.
Chris commented:
Technically he didn’t write it. It was written under a different name and his face was altered. So they would be prosecuting the wrong man.
pink tie Republican commented:
One interesting thing. It seems to me that Choomboy dragged his feet on getting OBL because he knew it would mean the Muzzies would be targeting him and his family for revenge for however long it took to get it. He and his family will need extra secure SS protection for the rest of his/ their lives, and even then a well placed bomb or suicide bomber may still get him. This has got to be in the back of his mind every day.
chris commented:
There is no way Obama and his cronies were going to let anyone contradict the lies. This SEAL is screwed. Brave. But screwed.
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Blue Hen commented:
I doubt that any legal action could be concluded by January 21 2013. If I’m right, then this will die a well deserved death. Especially in light of what the Pentagon did for the filmmakers.
excellent point blue hen i wondered about that too
chuck in st paul commented:
Bring it on you bunch of stores clerks and chair warmers. We’ll start a legal fund that’ll exceed the Pentagon budget for bombs and bullets.
The hypocrisy of this is just stunning. Obysmal gives movie makers full access to highly classified info and nothing is done. A SEAL tells it like it was and he’s going to be crucified. Once again the oxymoron of ‘military intelligence’ rears its head.
Buffalobob commented:
Valerie Jarrett the only 5 star general in obama’s regine.
Patty commented:
Former Seal and Freedom of Speech, threatening an American with legal action for writing a book.
I do believe that anyone can write a book, it is laughable to see how far the pentagon will take this.
Constitution. Remember that or has our Government forgotten that too.
again.
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