Navy Seal Publishes Book on Osama Raid

[MorningSong]

I find this story getting more and more interesting...that is, the rabbit hole getting deeper and deeper as the "story" becomes "history".....


SEAL who wrote book on bin Laden raid revealed
By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – Thu, Aug 23, 2012

The Navy SEAL who used a pseudonym to write an upcoming book on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has been revealed.

Penguin Books—which is publishing "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama bin Laden" on Sept. 11 on its Dutton imprint—said the author used the pen name Mark Owen and changed the names of his fellow SEALs for security reasons.

But Fox News published Owen's real name, saying he is a 36-year-old Alaskan and former member of the so-called Team 6 that killed bin Laden in a May 2011 assault on the al-Qaida chief's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (The Associated Press also published his name; other news outlets, including CNN, chose not to do so.)

"Owen was one of the first men through the door on the third floor of the terrorist leader's hideout," Penguin said in a press release on Wednesday, "and was present at his death":

The blow-by-blow narrative of the assault, beginning with the helicopter crash that could have ended Owen's life straight through to the radio call confirming Bin Laden's death, is an essential piece of modern history.

Owen said the reason he wanted to write the book—co-authored with Kevin Maurer—was to "set the record straight about one of the most important missions in U.S. military history."........

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/navy-seal-book-bin-laden-raid-193716211.html

Then this:


Aug 30, 8:35 PM EDT

Pentagon may take legal action against SEAL author

By ROBERT BURNS
AP National Security Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon's top lawyer has informed the former Navy SEAL who authored a forthcoming book describing details of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden that he violated agreements to not divulge military secrets and that as a result the Pentagon is considering taking legal action against him.

The general counsel of the Defense Department, Jeh Johnson, wrote in a letter transmitted to the author on Thursday that he had signed two nondisclosure agreements with the Navy in 2007 that obliged him to "never divulge" classified information. Johnson said that after reviewing a copy of the book, "No Easy Day," the Pentagon concluded that the author is in "material breach and violation" of the agreements.

Johnson said the department is considering pursuing against him "all remedies legally available to us."


http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BIN_LADEN_BOOK_PENTAGON?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-30-20-35-47

And this:


Pentagon says reviewing ex-Navy SEAL's bin Laden book
Published: Wednesday, 29 Aug 2012 | 9:07 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon on Wednesday said it has obtained a copy of a soon-to-be-published book by a former Navy commando who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and is reviewing it.

The book was not cleared by U.S. defense officials in advance, raising the possibility that the author could face an investigation and possible criminal prosecution.

"We have obtained a copy and are reviewing it," Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told Reuters.

"No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden" was written under the pseudonym Mark Owen with co-author Kevin Maurer and was to be released next month on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Its publication has been moved up to September 4, according to reports by some media outlets.

According to the book, bin Laden was unarmed when Navy SEALs found him in the raid on his Pakistan compound last year, several media outlets that obtained advanced copies reported on Wednesday. It also describes bin Laden being shot in the head as he looked out from his bedroom door, the reports said.

National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor on Wednesday had no comment on the book, but said: "As President Obama said on the night that justice was brought to Osama bin Laden, 'We give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism, and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country.'"

The former SEAL is now facing threats against his life in addition to possible charges. Officials have said the military would take legal action against anyone who exposed sensitive information that could harm fellow forces.

Earlier this month U.S. officials said they were surprised by the book, which was not vetted by government agencies to ensure that no secrets were revealed.

(Reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; Additional reporting by Mark Hosenball; Writing by Susan Heavey; Editing by Vicki Allen)

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48825759

And yet here is a film that is being planned to be made:


Judicial Watch Obtains Stack of ‘Overlooked’ CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Filmmakers
August 28, 2012

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Department of Defense (DOD) regarding meetings and communications between government agencies and Kathryn Bigelow, the Academy Award-winning director of The Hurt Locker, and screenwriter Mark Boal in preparation for their film Zero Dark Thirty, which details the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden. According to the records, the Obama administration granted Boal and Bigelow unusual access to agency information in preparation for their film, which was reportedly scheduled for an October 2012 release, just before the presidential election, but the trailers are running now until the rescheduled release in December.......


http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-4-to-5-inch-stack-of-overlooked-cia-records-detailing-meetings-with-bin-laden-filmmakers/

[eni-al]

Usually its everyone's word against each other, though I think in this case we would be more inclined to believe the person that was actually there. Though, there probably is not too many revelations to had from the book, only the precise events and actions the SEAL's took, the more darker stuff going on is in the offices of those in charge. The whole thing has been a propaganda push anyway, photos from the command centre and that, they pretty much planned to let the public know and see everything after the event, and have it now seems modified the facts to cover up certain things that would cause damage.

[Carmody]

the only problem is that Osama Bin laden had a medical condition which would have killed him on it's own, many years before any possible 'raid'.

[Ol' Roy]

I guess it is remotely possible that Bin laden could have had a kidney transplant years ago. Just sayin. Somebody knows.

[Operator]

the only problem is that Osama Bin laden had a medical condition which would have killed him on it's own, many years before any possible 'raid'.

Correct ... but it all fits in !
I've heard (can't remember where) that they've kept his body on ice for the moment his body was 'needed'.
So the Navy Seal is probably correct ... they had to think of a scenario believable enough to keep Seal Team 6 satisfied.

He declared that the body was pretty much messed up. Those words are not indicative for the scenario where somebody
just shot him a couple of seconds before they entered. Another reason why they got rid of the body so quickly.
An autopsy would have indicated another cause of death.

This book was b.t.w. announced in dutch mainstream media (newspaper). Remarkable ...

[jackovesk]

I guess it is remotely possible that Bin laden could have had a kidney transplant years ago. Just sayin. Somebody knows.

Somebody knows..???

Well your 'Exactly Right' Ol' Roy...:thumb:

Insider - Dr. Steve Pieczenik knows and he just the person to tell you the 'Truth' as to when Osama Bin Laden died and more importantly 'Explain the Ramifications' of the continual 'Govt' LIE'..!!!!

New Seal Team 6 Book A Fraud: Steve Pieczenik

August 25, 2012

Dr. Steve Pieczenik has twenty years experience in resolving international crises for four U.S. administrations.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK-eWMgvZOk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK-eWMgvZOk

[MorningSong]

Just an update on the "story":


Navy SEAL Author Rejects the Pentagon's Legal Threat
John Hudson Aug 31, 2012

Former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette is going to tell his version of events surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden, even if the Pentagon sues him for every last penny.

Last night, the Defense Department's top attorney wrote a letter to Bissonnette threatening to use "all remedies legally available" against him for the publication of No Easy Day, his firsthand account of the mission to kill bin Laden in Pakistan. "You are in material breach and violation of the nondisclosure agreements you signed," wrote Pentagon general counsel Jeh Charles Johnson. The letter hinted at a criminal prosecution of Bissonnete for disclosing classified information and threatened to seize the royalties from his book and go after his publisher Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Group. In a written response, a lawyer representing Bissonnette denied his client breached his nondisclosure agreement in a letter to the Pentagon. (The letter, obtained by The Atlantic Wire, refers to Bissonnette under his pen name Mark Owen.)

"Mr. Owen sought legal advice about his responsibilities before agreeing to publish his book and scrupulously reviewed the work to ensure that it did not disclose any material that would breach his agreements or put his former comrades at risk," wrote Robert D. Luskin, an attorney at D.C. lobbying behemoth Patton Boggs. "Mr. Owen is proud of his service and respectful of his obligations. But he has earned the right to tell his story."

According to the letter, the nondisclosure agreement signed by Bissonnette when he was a SEAL only applied to "specially identified Special Access Programs" and not missions such as the May 1, 2011 raid.

That's an argument that may come as a surprise to some legal experts, who considered the Pentagon's case against Bissonnette a "slam dunk" given his failure to submit his book for pre-publication review. Attorney Scott Hodes, an expert in government secrecy issues, tells The Atlantic Wire that Bissonnette's lawyer appears to be looking out for the interests of Bissonnette's publisher. "I think this is the position of someone defending a publisher who is publishing a book that may have classified information in it," said Hodes. Bradley Moss, a Washington-based national security attorney, also expressed concern that Bissonnette is in over his head: ......

For a fuller look at the serious legal ramifications facing Bissonnette see our earlier report here. I've posted the entire letter from Bissonnette's attorney below: ......

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/08/navy-seal-author-rejects-pentagons-legal-threat/56433/

[Spiral]

It all smells of crafted theatre, dis info and distraction .

The whole thing rests on hyperbole, didn't the whole SEAL team that allegedly went into the supposed house of the long dead CIA operative die in a helicopter explosion ?

[Lifebringer]

Well I guess finally the conspiracy theorists, that said: "Osama was dead in 2002." "He dies because of kidney failure." "Obama didn't kill Bin Laden, he was already dead." because Fox/Fixed Noise said so. They have a guy that flatly goes against all the hatefilled rhetoric against this President's achievement as a Leader of Our Military families.

Blatant lies, innuendo, and fantasy seem to be permeating the remaining supporters of the Republican party. Maybe they have a microchip by KOCH brothers who funded German mind control programs for Hitler, that tells them to follow the script to the matrix, just like the teleprompter bust and cheating and stealing of elections, voter suppression to citizens, because they don't care if Granny votes, they are gonna kick her wheelchair to the curb and put in on Wall St. Did you know the 716 million President Obama took from the medicare/fraudsters was because a wheel chair from China, valued at 50.00 was charged to US tax payers 350 or 400.00 dollars on the program? A third of the billing, the people never recieved equipment and the company would mover within a year, before the "undercut oversight department" would catch them. Well the President said: "Oh yeah, you're gonna charge the tax payer and not even deliver, and the insurance companies "referring them" get a cut? NOT THIS TIME!

HE CUT THEM OUT AND THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT FINED THEM, JUST ASK FLORIDA'S REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR, HIS INSURANCE COMPANY HAD TO PAY BILLIONS BACK.

[jackovesk]

Just an update on the "story":


Navy SEAL Author Rejects the Pentagon's Legal Threat
John Hudson Aug 31, 2012

Former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette is going to tell his version of events surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden, even if the Pentagon sues him for every last penny.

Last night, the Defense Department's top attorney wrote a letter to Bissonnette threatening to use "all remedies legally available" against him for the publication of No Easy Day, his firsthand account of the mission to kill bin Laden in Pakistan. "You are in material breach and violation of the nondisclosure agreements you signed," wrote Pentagon general counsel Jeh Charles Johnson. The letter hinted at a criminal prosecution of Bissonnete for disclosing classified information and threatened to seize the royalties from his book and go after his publisher Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Group. In a written response, a lawyer representing Bissonnette denied his client breached his nondisclosure agreement in a letter to the Pentagon. (The letter, obtained by The Atlantic Wire, refers to Bissonnette under his pen name Mark Owen.)

"Mr. Owen sought legal advice about his responsibilities before agreeing to publish his book and scrupulously reviewed the work to ensure that it did not disclose any material that would breach his agreements or put his former comrades at risk," wrote Robert D. Luskin, an attorney at D.C. lobbying behemoth Patton Boggs. "Mr. Owen is proud of his service and respectful of his obligations. But he has earned the right to tell his story."

According to the letter, the nondisclosure agreement signed by Bissonnette when he was a SEAL only applied to "specially identified Special Access Programs" and not missions such as the May 1, 2011 raid.

That's an argument that may come as a surprise to some legal experts, who considered the Pentagon's case against Bissonnette a "slam dunk" given his failure to submit his book for pre-publication review. Attorney Scott Hodes, an expert in government secrecy issues, tells The Atlantic Wire that Bissonnette's lawyer appears to be looking out for the interests of Bissonnette's publisher. "I think this is the position of someone defending a publisher who is publishing a book that may have classified information in it," said Hodes. Bradley Moss, a Washington-based national security attorney, also expressed concern that Bissonnette is in over his head: ......

For a fuller look at the serious legal ramifications facing Bissonnette see our earlier report here. I've posted the entire letter from Bissonnette's attorney below: ......

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/08/navy-seal-author-rejects-pentagons-legal-threat/56433/

Well Well Well - Do we have a 'Whistleblower' in our midst..?


Former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette is going to tell his version of events surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden, even if the Pentagon sues him for every last penny.

Let me re-phrase this into a far more accurate statement...:)


Former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette is going to tell his version of events surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden, because he knows if he does'nt get the 'Truth' out publically ASAP, he is going to be SUICIDED/KILLED by his own employer...:yes4:

[mexrph]

Fox News online on December 26, 2001 admitted that Osama Bin Laden had died of kidney failure. There is no way that Navy Team 6 killed Bin Laden. He had been dead for a long time. Another manufactured story from the mass misinformation media. THERE ARE NUMEROUS REPORTS ON THE INTERNET THAT BIN LADEN DIED SOON AFTER 911.

[Harley]

Bin Laden was killed during the initial strike on Tora Bora. I know this because I was working in a certain US/NATO lab at the time and I remember the military guys coming in and whooping and hollaring about it. We got a tv and the media were broadcasting that "Reports are coming in that Osama Bin Laden has been killed".

The very next morning the media was saying that the reports had been false and that they did not get him. But that's not what the guys were saying back in the lab. They didn't know at the time what was going on with these new reports, but they knew he had been got. And then shortly after that I was informed that they were not to talk about it any more.

Looking back at it now, the whole thing reminded me of Roswell. What a joke!



the only problem is that Osama Bin laden had a medical condition which would have killed him on it's own, many years before any possible 'raid'.

Correct ... but it all fits in !
I've heard (can't remember where) that they've kept his body on ice for the moment his body was 'needed'.
So the Navy Seal is probably correct ... they had to think of a scenario believable enough to keep Seal Team 6 satisfied.

He declared that the body was pretty much messed up. Those words are not indicative for the scenario where somebody
just shot him a couple of seconds before they entered. Another reason why they got rid of the body so quickly.
An autopsy would have indicated another cause of death.

This book was b.t.w. announced in dutch mainstream media (newspaper). Remarkable ...

Actually this is a very valid possibility. They've done alot stranger than this and accomplished their goals. And as far as making it believable enough for the Seal Team to buy it, let's not forget the "Shooting Down" of the teams chopper shortly after!

And as far as this book goes, it's simply an engineered media fiasco designed to reinforce the publics belief that this really took place, in order to bolster Obama's ratings. Even the originally planned publication date was set to be, when? Sep 11, 2012!

Oh and remember a while back when Obama made that statement "You Didn't Build That"? The statement really should've been "I Didn't Build That"!

:)