7. Matthew Bissonnette turned over a hard drive that contained the . ", "I'm not talking secrets. I have read postings from friends on facebook of the Armys laxity in discerning racists in the ranks. Director: Who Loves the Sun. We do not abide willful or selfish disregard for our core values in return for public notoriety and financial gain, which only diminishes otherwise honorable service., The letter goes on to say All members exposed to classified information have a duty to protect this information, regardless of what may be reflected in the media, accurately or otherwise, and finishes by saying the command will seek judicial consequences against those who willfully violate the law and place our teammates, our families and potential future operations at risk.. All Rights Reserved. Its a mistake for which both emotionally and financially he has and will pay very dearly, he added, though the lawyer believes he will be able to wrap up a settlement on both potential civil and criminal charges by years end. According to news reports, Bissonnette purports that Obama and Biden were there to thank the SEALs for their service. She is currently starring as Maureen Robinson in Netflix's Lost in Space.Matthew is known for his work on movies like Who Loves . Cooper blames Bissonnette for revealing the central base from which DEVGRU operates and launches many of its missions. Yes, but I gotta look at this as a lesson, he said. The Pentagon security reviewers must have been suffering a dearth of caffeine or sleep. The military seems to trust Maurer with documenting missions. Records show that it was Obama who ordered the operation against the advice of his defense secretary, who had started working for Nixons National Security Council when Obama was only 13, and against the advice of Vice President Joe Biden, who was elected to the Senate when Obama was 11. Matthew Bissonnette, a former Navy SEAL involved in the 2011 raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, kept a photo of the slain Al Qaeda leader's corpse on a hard-drive that he has since surrendered to . Bowden's book, The Finish, comes out tomorrow, just over a month . Matthew Bissonnette . One of the reasons U.S. Navy SEALs were able to so skillfully execute the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound last year was a CIA training facility in North Carolina that mirrored the architecture . Marcus Luttrell was briefly in class 226, but due to injury later graduated class 228. The goal [of Element Group] was to work with the sporting industry, said the former SEAL Team 6 operator who has been interviewed by investigators. Matt Bissonnette was born in Montreal, Canada on November 2, 1965. Bissonnette (L) and Maurer (R), co-authors. On AbeBooks: AFI on AbeBooks, September 6, 2012 / Love him or hate him, Matt Bissonnette (aka Mark Owen) is a certified badass. The book was written by former SEAL Team Six member . Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. Obama watching attack on bin Laden (Romania News). I think someone in Washington should start posting some of the photos we took in Abbottabad, O'Neill said. Letters of reprimand, which are damaging to Naval careers, were sent to all seven. According to Cole, the agency turned their focus to Bissonnette's business . What Obama did was listen to more seasoned veterans who claimed that bin Laden was in the compound, and ordered a directreplica of the compound to be built for SEAL assault practices. SEALs sign nondisclosure agreements about their work, and even beyond the legal ramifications of violating those agreements, former SEAL Team 6 members who speak publicly about their battlefield exploits are often ostracized by their peers. Element Group, a Virginia Beach-based consulting firm that was started by Mr. Bissonnette, cut deals with at least one Department of Defense contractor that provided equipment to SEAL Team 6, several former members of the group told The Intercept. [3], Bissonnette continues to serve on the advisory board of the GWOT Memorial Foundation as well as advocating for transitioning veterans and helping raise money and awareness for multiple veteran-related charities. He's the Navy SEAL who wrote a first-hand account of the raid that killed bin Laden. [7][8], At the end of his service, Bissonnette earned the title "Team Leader" and had conducted hundreds of missions throughout 13 combat deployments overseas. Matthew Bissonnette, the former SEAL and author of No Easy Day, a firsthand account of the 2011 bin Laden operation, had already been under investigation by both the Justice Department and the Navy for revealing classified information. Hes from the Middle of Nowhere All rights reserved. When the children later came up on stage to get an award honoring their mom, Bissonnette presented it, and hugged the kids, telling them and the crowd, Your moms the real fighter.. We may know a little more about why former Navy SEAL author Matt Bisonnette rushed to publish his memoir No Easy Day before receiving Pentagon approval: to get his book out before Mark Bowden published his own big Osama bin Laden raid book. Andrew Blake can be reached at ablake@washingtontimes.com. Bissonnette believes it was some of his own former teammates who revealed his real name to Fox News, which first reported it after the release of No Easy Day. Robert O'Neill, a former U.S. Navy SEAL, speaks at the "Best of Blount" Chamber of Commerce awards ceremony at the Clayton Center for the . Four armed Somali pirates . O'Neill and Matt Bissonnette, wrote books and did interviews in which . He has been embedded as part of the special services six times over the past five years and has covered deployment in both Iraq and . Ed Buice, spokesperson for the NCIS, confirmed the ongoing investigation into Bissonnette, but declined to elaborate. Update, 9:52 a.m. EDT: This article was updated with a comment from Rob O'Neill. Aug. 19, 2016. The publication of No Easy Day in September 2012, just a few months after Bissonnette was honorably discharged from the Navy, broke the unwritten code of silence among members of the special operations community. A Navy SEAL who helped kill Osama bin Laden allegedly kept an unauthorized photo of his corpse, The Intercept reported Tuesday. A FORMER NAVY SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden and wrote a bestselling book about the raid is now the subject of a widening federal criminal . What the Snowden Files Say About the Osama Bin Laden Raid, The CIA and the Myths of the Bin Laden Raid, How Makers of Zero Dark Thirty Seduced CIA with Fake Earrings. As part of the legendary SEAL Team 6, Owen (we'll use his pen name) was a top-tier special operator who knew how to kick in doors, snatch HVTs and dispatch tangos with precision marksmanship. began to investigate Bissonnette. Matt Bissonnette, 36, of Wrangell, Alaska, is the USA Navy SEAL who compromised the security of thenation by publishing his tell-all history on the assassination of Usama bin Laden. -- The United States has settled its years-long legal battle with . Hes Not Happy with President Obama The publication of the book, which hit the New York Times bestseller list, took Bissonnettes unit and the Pentagon by surprise. The DoD claims the book contains classified information, which the book's publisher and Bissonnette deny. Stay up to date with our daily newsletter, Scholz Urges China Not To Arm Russia As U.S. Explores Sanctions, Former Italy PM Conte Investigated Over Response To COVID Pandemic, US Conservatives Target Liberal 'Threat' At Annual Forum, Over 1 Million Ukrainians Left Homeless By Russian Attacks, Russia Needs To Pay War Reparations To Ukraine, Says Polish Climate Minister. "It should be on the book.". 010324-F-1129S-009\nSAN Diego, Calif. (Mar. It's something that I don't mention in my book, and I would like to say something. He would not confirm Bissonnettes possession of the bin Laden photo or whether any investigation still remains open. January 19 2016, 3:00 a.m. Photo: U.S. Air Force. Obama was solely responsible for the decision to give the go for the operation despite the fact that there was no proof that Usama bin Laden was living in Abbottabad, only a circumstantial case that he was. 2 military adviser. (To his credit, Owen whose real name has been revealed to be Matt Bissonnette is donating most of the proceeds of his book to charities that help the families of fallen SEALs.) Matt Bissonette, the first SEAL on the raid to come forward publicly, turned over a hard drive to the Navy in Jan. 2016 that contained the classified photo of bin Laden's body to avoid prosecution . Why Navy SEALs Are Supposed to Keep Their Mouths Shut. Contact email: joshuaseed@aol.com. Thanks to Matthew Cole of The Intercept, now we know how and why the N.C.I.S. In a gimmicky move, it comes out Sept. 11. Bissonnette stated that most of the proceeds from the book will be donated to families of SEALs killed in action. And then there's the upcoming book about the bin Laden raid by Mark . document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. October 15, 2012, 2:42 PM. 53 votes, 12 comments. The problem in the USA is the idea that all Muslims (the largest percentage and number being in Indonesia) are African (there are in increasing cases native-born Swedes and Finns who are Muslim, and they are the typical blonde-hair, blue-eyed, hairless-bodies Aryans [the word actually details northern tribes of India that have none of those attributes], or Jews (a religion, not a race as Sammy Davis Jr. was Black, Mae Britt is caucasian, etc, and are found from China to South America). Bradley Cooper Set to Play Slain Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in Biopic, Matt Bissonnette: Top 10 Facts You Need to Know, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. Marine General James Hoss Cartwright has long been a trusted adviser to Barrack Obama, and according to insider Pentagon information is one of Obamas favorite advisers, whose judgment he trusts when making important decisions on national defense. During their search of his hard drive, investigators subsequently found emails and records dealing with Bissonnettes work as a consultant while he was on active duty at SEAL Team 6. Obama was following the course advocated by General James Hoss Cartwright, Obamas then-No. /*-->
