Posted on 08/23/2012 11:53:02 AM PDT by Jean S
Turns out there are leaks everywhere, even among Navy SEALs.
Fox News obtained and released the identity of the author of the controversial new book "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden," due to come out on the anniversary of 9/11.
"Mark Owen," the pseudonym under which the book was written, is actually 35 year-old Matt Bissonnette of Wrangell, Alaska. Bissonnette held the rank of chief in the elite Navy SEAL Team 6 prior to retiring. He was one of the first men in the room where bin Laden died, witnessing the occurrence first-hand.
We tracked down pictures of Bissonnett on PatriotFiles.com and Flickr.
Bissonnette was also part of the operation which ended with the killing of three Somali pirates in order to save the life of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean in 2009.
He co-wrote the book with author Kevin Maurer, a well-versed author of four books, most based on military special operations.
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New York City book publishing is filled with liberals. Anyone could have anonymously leaked this. I worked on a conservative book one time where stories refuting the points in the book started appearing in the New York Times way before the book was published. Before proofs, even. So somebody leaked from somewhere. Agency, publisher, could be anyone.
Anyone who publishes a conservative book and does not want the contents or anything else leaked out ahead of time should issue ironbound confidentiality agreements to everyone who will get anywhere near it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2921920/posts?page=47#47
NDA applies to Confidential, Secret and Top Secret, as well as EEFI — you promise to keep secret the secrets you know.
As long as no EEFI or compromise of classified data was revealed, then no foul. This is especially true if open source information is out there to demonstrate the info was already released. . .like the leaks from the WH. And he did have a former SOF lawyer do a review. I am also sure he ran the book past Team members for their take on compromising sensitive data/info, as their LIVES are at stake.
Approval to write a book after retirement is not necessary, strictly speaking. The review is to officially get a reading on questions of classified information.
Retired officers and enlisted write and get published letters to the editor all the time. They also write books (”Nickel on the Grass” by Col Phil “Hands” Handly, for ex), and don’t run it by the DOD for approval. They also appear on TV as commentators and they never obtain approval.
If classified or EEFI is compromised then they would be in trouble. . .hence the review. If on active duty, then they MUST do the review, regardless.
But other than that, no real risk at all.
If you let the government vet something, they cross everything out. You end up with a book that is mostly black ink streaks.
that was about my time I turned FOX off except in hte morning and that is only back noise.
To have replaced Beck with that crap they call the five is awful.
An elitist woman who can see no wrong on Bush because she worked for him.
An idiot who thinks he is funny.
Beckel, say no more and who I would love to get in the ring and lets see if he can back his big mouth up.
Guilfoyle[sp] always sucking up to Beckel and acts like a little child and thinks showing her legs will get people to watch and if they do watch because of that then they seriously never had a decent woman in the life and need to get out more.
Only person worth any time was Bolling but not enough to put up with the other idiots on there.
FOX and friends has dumb low IQ Kilmeade .
Gretchen Carlson, who always shouts and cries about PC and then she herself does it when it comes to jokes about blondes, women etc and her saying she puts helmets on her kids when they drive those little farty elkectric cars is stunning and then this morning she wants Nike to sell their sneakers cheaper because not everyone can afford them, I can’t either but I would tell my kids we can;t afford them why she can;t is the new normal with elitist types today.
Doocy alright
Megyn Kelly ARF, what a joke she became, getting Sally Khon or kohn a job at FOX and giving her airtime to spew her homo crap and she is a homo activist, worked for media matters etc, WTH is going on at FOX.
Never watch the establishment types at 6.
Shep smith the pansy and Geraldo, two of the most drama queens at FOX.
O.R loud mouth
Hannity is a fraud and pro homo, does he still harp on about his few weeks working as a blue coller worker?
We need a proper news channel which does report on social issues as well as the fiscal issues, something which FOX cannot do nor can most of talk radio.
If people really knew what was going on in this country there would be a riot, homostapo, where our taxes go etc.
Post 62 explains why he is not facing trouble.
Unless this was some type of “Fox News investigation”, which I doubt, then the information is probably available, in general, to the media.
That said, you don’t write a book if you need to be 100% anonymous. I don’t really blame Fox for this.
Post 62 says why it will.
Wow, he was an eyewitness to all of The Kenyan Commando's heroics?
Did he see Obama:
* pilot the lead helicopter flying VFR in total darkness;
* put the bird on whisper-mode autohover;
* Australian-rapell into the courtyard with a crew-served weapon in each hand;
* stop a three-round burst with his sculpted abs;
* kick down every door with a head butt;
* take out Bin Laden single-handedly with a double-tap of .50 cal hollow-point tracer rounds; AND
* record the whole event with a camcorder strapped to his schlong!
It was earlier this morning that FOX gave out his real name.....either FOX and Friends or the show after it with Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum.
Where is his house he grew up in, his school when he was little etc?
Social issues and what the homostapo does is never mentioned at all and that goes for the fake Hannity and others on talk radio.
Not once did they oppose overturning don't ask and one vet got hung up on when he got past the screener whilst many ther vets like me were told that the topic will not be discussed. FOX is yet another elitist network who thinks New York is America.
If we had a real president, people would already be in jail for this. And the key to their cells would be “forgotten.”
Totally agree.
Could someone of senior years tell me if this sort of thing happened 40-50 years ago because I really find it hard to believe...
I’m patiently waiting to see the pics of Osama skidding over the side of the carrier. Assuming it happened I know they are out there.
I would suggest to the Seal, Don’t take any Chopper rides in the near future.
Did you not read the bits in your link about how there is little evidence to back up the assertion that Pershing ordered dead muslim insurgents be buried with pigskins? They also mentioned that when Israeli settlers claimed to have buried a dead Palestinian terrorist in pigskin, a spokesman for the organisation that sent him said that the settlers ‘don’t hold the keys to paradise’.
It also pointed out that the 9/11 terrorists committed a multitude of Islamic sins prior to the hijacking, including drinking and visiting a strip club, in the belief that what they were about to do would ‘wipe the slate clean’ with Allah.
Lastly, it pointed out that dead martyrs under Islam are not washed before burial, in the belief that their deeds have already purified them and it is therefore not neccessary, meaning that any defilement of a jihadi Muslim corpse by enemy infidels will have no bearing on whether he will get into paradise or not.
The link you posted is providing evidence of the exact opposite of what you are trying to say would be an effective means of deterring Islamic terrorists.
For my part, I believe this sort of thing might well deter some of the lesser educated and more medievally credulous terrorists, but certainly not the more hard-core religiously educated ones...
WTF???? Why would anyone do this? This guy will have to go into hiding. No retirement with any semblance of normalcy with family for him, thanks to Fox News.
After reading these posts before mine I am looking at this a whole different way. Yes he wrote the book so he does garner this attention. I was also very surprised at all the info about him in the fox article so I ask..............why the hit on him?
If Obama was all for this that day you would think this would be welcomed. Why does the regime not like this? ‘cause you know they must have leaked all his personel info or had something to do with leaking it.
For me Fox is about the same as all the rest MSM and have been for some time now.
Not only does this Seal hero need to worry about the media hounding him and hunting him down,,now thanks to whomever released his name (including those on Free Republic who repeat his name) he now has to worry about Islamic wackos hunting him down in his private life. BTW for what it’s worth, the NYT was able to restrain itself and NOT publish the man’s name.
He wrote about other team members in his book and he used fake names for them. I wonder if we are going to see their names on FR...?
BTW - FOX should be incredibly HIGHLY ASHAMED of such an act. It is completely disgusting!
As usual, Fox is mimicking the NYT traitors.
Yes, I do. I do believe we can speak about the situation without mentioning the man’s name. We don’t need to be part of the breakdown. Yes, I can talk about it without mentioning his name, can you?
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