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Former SEAL Author may beFacing Legal Trouble
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Lawyers: Former SEAL Author Is Almost Certainly Facing Legal Trouble
John Hudson Aug 29, 2012
The publisher and author of No Easy Day, an upcoming tell-all on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, promised the book doesn't reveal classified information. But government privacy lawyers speaking with The Atlantic Wire say the book almost certainly does.
Last night, the public got its first taste of the book's contents as the Associated Press and The Huffington Post obtained pre-release copies of it. In acute detail, former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette described everything from the blood seeping beneath bin Laden's body to the entry-point where his fellow SEALs surged the compound. (His account also revealed multiple contradictions with earlier accounts by administration sources.) Only the government knows for certain which details are considered classified in Bissonnette's book, but based on the Justice Department's previous legal efforts to conceal all photographs and video pertaining to the raid, lawyers say it's very likely Bissonnette crossed the legal line.
"The odds are very high that such a person personally involved in such an operation -- who has so brazenly breached his obligation to submit his manuscript for pre-publication review -- has included at least some classified detail," says Dan Metcalfe, the Justice Department's former director of the Office of Information and Privacy. "Consider, by comparison, that the CIA effectively claimed that every last bit of the 52 'death photos/video' is classified."
In that particular case, the CIA fought the disclosure of every last shred of raid imagery requested in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group. In April, a federal judge sided with the CIA to keep the images concealed on grounds of national security. Considering the CIA's broad definition of classified materials, Metcalfe said "it would be extremely surprising" if Bissonnette's disclosures were not also considered classified. And Metcalfe isn't alone.
FULL ARTICLE HERE
http://tiny.cc/1t3ujw
John Hudson Aug 29, 2012
The publisher and author of No Easy Day, an upcoming tell-all on the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, promised the book doesn't reveal classified information. But government privacy lawyers speaking with The Atlantic Wire say the book almost certainly does.
Last night, the public got its first taste of the book's contents as the Associated Press and The Huffington Post obtained pre-release copies of it. In acute detail, former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette described everything from the blood seeping beneath bin Laden's body to the entry-point where his fellow SEALs surged the compound. (His account also revealed multiple contradictions with earlier accounts by administration sources.) Only the government knows for certain which details are considered classified in Bissonnette's book, but based on the Justice Department's previous legal efforts to conceal all photographs and video pertaining to the raid, lawyers say it's very likely Bissonnette crossed the legal line.
"The odds are very high that such a person personally involved in such an operation -- who has so brazenly breached his obligation to submit his manuscript for pre-publication review -- has included at least some classified detail," says Dan Metcalfe, the Justice Department's former director of the Office of Information and Privacy. "Consider, by comparison, that the CIA effectively claimed that every last bit of the 52 'death photos/video' is classified."
In that particular case, the CIA fought the disclosure of every last shred of raid imagery requested in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal group. In April, a federal judge sided with the CIA to keep the images concealed on grounds of national security. Considering the CIA's broad definition of classified materials, Metcalfe said "it would be extremely surprising" if Bissonnette's disclosures were not also considered classified. And Metcalfe isn't alone.
FULL ARTICLE HERE
http://tiny.cc/1t3ujw
Comments
obomas pissed because he wanted to release the info to help him get relected. eastbank.
Could be that this book is actually sown with disinformation with the idea of protecting our personnel fom the prez and his crew leaking accurate classified details.
Everything that's in this book is going to be seen as the real story - whether it is or not. [;)]
His peers are apprently furious with him for revealing trade secrets.