In the early- to mid-1980s, he toured and recorded with jazz trumpeterMaynard Ferguson. Sep 11, 2017. 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 . As a result of the book release and the interview, The Pentagon has reportedly threatened legal action against Bissonnette for the possible publication of classified information. Author Matt Bissonnette, whose pen name for the best-seller "No Easy Day" is Mark Owen, is one of two dozen retired and active-duty military officers who provided technical advice, voice-overs . Element Group, for example, designed prototypes for sleeping bags and a tent system that would be sold commercially. I can confirm that the criminal investigation of Mr. Bissonnette for alleged wrongful handling or disclosure of classified information was closed through declination by the DOJ in August 2015, said Robert Luskin, an attorney who represents Bissonnette. Obama and Cabinet watching attack on bin Laden compound. I find nothing saintly, patriotic or good in Bissonnette but see him more on the order of the mass-murderer Anders Brevik of Norway or the Old Testament Joshua who claimed they were doing just deeds while in fact giving vent to their personal rage and feeling of superiority. The controversial book No Easy Day, written by a now-outed Navy SEAL, reveals the tools he took with him on the raid to get Osama bin Laden. In the past the US Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the Pentagon when an unauthorized book by a military member was published even without exposing confidential or classified information as was the case with retired CIA agent Frank Snepp published a book (Decent. In one interview, Mullen stated Obama is the one that put in the Chinook-47s. 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. A rival book, No Easy Op (an e-bookavailable from www,Amazon.com), claims that there was bad blood between Bissonnette and other SEALs (read hereand here). T his week, Matt Bissonnette will undergo surgery to remove remnants of the most famous gunfight of this century from his body.Fragments of rounds fired as he and fellow US Navy Seals raided Osama . We had to put the two pieces together to be able to take the pictures. Research into various articles, communications with the Pentagon and other sources shows Bissonnette to be hot headed and bad blood with a vengenace against all. interval: an insiders account of Saigons indecent end told by the CIAs chief strategy analyst in Vietnam, New York, NY: Random House, 1977; it is also published in Chinese [Taiwan] Tai-pei : Lien ha pao she 1978 [The Chinese/Taiwanese characters do not display here) about his CIA activities in South Vietnam without submitting it to the agency for prepublication review. /*-->*/ His recurring illusions of grandeur and quest for personal power and fame has cost numerous lives and the mental anguish of many. Bissonnettewas seen as a rising star within the SEAL Team 6 command. 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. A former Navy SEAL who shot Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden told Fox News on Friday that he could rescue Americans from Kabul with "nine guys" amid the Taliban takeover of the country. A former member of the Navy SEALs who wrote a best seller about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is under criminal investigation for possibly disclosing classified material . Shortly after the publication of No Easy Day, Bissonnettes unit began looking into the business dealings he had conducted while he was on active duty, according to several former SEAL Team 6 operators. You may use these HTML tags and attributes:
. With Lukas Haas, Molly Parker, Adam Scott, R.H. Thomson. More important than the murder of bin Laden, Bissonnette exposes himself as a traitor to all peoplenot only citizens of the USA. The curse of Noah (against his grandson Canaan) was used by the Hittites, Slavs, and other people. Former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette is sorry for publishing a tell-all book about the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladenwithout first seeking a government security review. 2 military adviser. In 2012, in a non-judicial process called a captains mast, the command punished seven active duty SEALs for revealing sensitive information and using Defense Department equipment. Learn how your comment data is processed. Matt Bissonnettewho landed in hot water over his best-seller . Were silent professionals. So dont sponsor a movie where people are talking about it! he said, his voice rising in frustration. Matt Bissonnette was born in Montreal, Canada on November 2, 1965. 4. They dont call it SEAL Team 6-Year-Old for nothing, Bissonnette said bitterly of the rejection by a man who up until then had given him top performance reviews and tried to persuade him not to leave the Navy after the Bin Laden raid in 2011. I buy many books I do not agree with (I have the complete publications of the LDS Mormons and Pat Robertson) and write about their fraudulency citing contrary sources (as with Saint Justin Martyr who was no saint and deliberately changed the Greek text of pole for his Latin devotion to the instrument of torture crossthis disgraces and tarnishes the entire crucifixion legend). Bissonnette says the government redacted a lot of it which he appealed, but was only able to clear about 50 percent of them. He appears with his nose flattened and his skull cut in half, O'Neill told the paper of photos he and other SEALs took. Former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette is sorry for publishing a tell-all book about the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Ladenwithout first seeking a government security review. 1. In 2004 he completed selection and training to enter the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU) and participated in several operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Matt Bissonnette, a former member of Navy SEAL Team 6 who wrote an account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, agreed on Friday to forfeit $6.8 million in book royalties and . Because you used so many negative and hateful words about Matt and others, that is a sure sign that Matts book is the truth! Matt Bissonette is a former United States Navy SEAL and author of No Easy Day, a book which he wrote using the pen name Mark Owen. The SEALs are not happy with Bissonnette and his book. The tragedy is that Bissonnette uses the book to justify himself and his personal vendetta. 10. [3], Bissonnette received more than 30 medals and awards according to a short biography from the Navy. 444 US 507 (100 S.Ct. [CDATA[/* >