Um...doesn't telling the entire world he is a Seal just make him useless as a Seal.
Lippert wasn't a SEAL, and won't be a SEAL. He was assigned to a SEAL unit as their intelligence officer when he spent some time on active-duty as a Naval Reserve officer.
Mr. Lippert is resume building for his own political aspirations, IMHO. And, this mis-information coming from a WH source, just proves that there's no one in Obama's administration that understands the difference between the Civil Air Patron and the US Air Force.