WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Navy SEAL who wrote a book about his role in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden will pay the government more than $6.6 million for violating non-disclosure agreements and publishing without getting the document cleared by the Defense Department, according to federal court documents.
Matt Bissonnette, who wrote “No Easy Day” under the pseudonym Mark Owen, will give the U.S. government all profits and royalties from the book or movie rights. The proceeds already total more than $6.6 million. He will have four years to pay the bulk of that.
According to the settlement, Bissonnette also has 30 days to pay $100,000 from the proceeds of presentations he gave using slides that were not approved by the department.
The book triggered a Justice Department probe, including claims it contained classified material. Bissonnette had signed non-disclosure agreements during his service as a SEAL, and he took part in a number of highly secret operations including the bin Laden raid.
Under the agreement, Bissonnette said he would acknowledge he made a mistake by failing to submit the book for pre-publication review. And in exchange for the payments, the U.S. government has dismissed other liability claims.
Justice Department spokeswoman Nicole Navas said the agreement doesn’t discredit Bissonnette’s military service, but reinforces that service members comply with the non-disclosure documents they sign.
Bissonnette has written a follow-up — also under the name Owen — detailing his journey as a member of SEAL Team Six. That book, “No Hero: the Evolution of a Navy SEAL,” did go through the proper channels and a few sections were redacted.
NOTE:
- The crime syndicate in Wash DC – to include the U.S.A. military/NWO/UN/NATO scum perpetrated a LIE upon the American people and the entire planet with their concocted story about taking out OBL. This needs to be brought forth in to the public arena, exposing the LIES and FRAUD continually being put out by the U.S.A. crime syndicate.
- The REAL OBL died of renal failure in a hospital back in the fall of 2001. The CIA/Bushes decided to create a substitute for the real OBL, thus the ridiculous account of the ‘successful’ bozo take down of OBL in Afghanistan and OBL’s ‘burial at sea’. Wonder what else – besides it NOT being OBL – that the CIA was attempting to cover up with that ‘burial’?
- OBL was NOT involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack on the Twin Towers as the propaganda would have you believe. That incident was orchestrated by Rumsfield, Cheney, Kissinger?, and the Bushes among others.
- HOW MUCH MONEY ARE THE ATTORNEYS ON BOTH SIDES REAPING FROM THIS RIDICULOUS FRIVULOUS LAWSUIT? AND WHAT IS THE JUDGE’S TAKE?
- WHY wasn’t the evidence produced in this court case PROVING OBL was LONG DEAD from renal failure and could not possibly have been in that seal raid nor the REAL OBL’s body have been the one dumped in to the sea from the chopper?
- WHO WAS THE UNFORTUNATE VICTIM OF THAT RAID WHO WOULD BE REFERRED TO AS ‘OBL’, and the REAL reason for that deadly sortie?
