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Bissonnettes goal was to get a feature-length film made by Hollywood, giving preference to director Steven Spielberg. 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. /*-->*/. that the Pentagon is considering pursuing against you, and all those acting in concert with you, all remedies legally available to us. The Pentagon had an early unpublished copy and marked the numerous security leaks within it, as numerous unpublished copies had been released to the news media and security networks (read hereand here). 010324-F-1129S-009\nSAN Diego, Calif. (Mar. 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. Who Loves the Sun: Directed by Matt Bissonnette. The Supreme Court case was Frank W. Snepp, III v. United States. The SEAL community may not welcome Bissonnette back, but the American public sees him as one of the men who got Bin Laden, and if No Easy Days book sales are any indication, they want him to keep telling stories. With Lukas Haas, Molly Parker, Adam Scott, R.H. Thomson. Even those who were sent against Hitler to assassinate the evil monster realized Hitler and his body guards were armed and shot (but were killed first)unlike Bissonnette who entered and found an unarmed man with one of his wives and shot him in cold blood. (Photo screenshot from YouTube) In fact, he was part of the daring . He is supported by Bissonnette and other retired military who want Obamacare ended, a promise Romney and Ryan make repeatedly (read here and here). Benedict Matthew Bissonnette is his full name. Since joining T&P, he has led a talented team of writers, editors, and creators who produce military journalism reaching millions of readers each month. According to several former SEAL Team operators familiar with the company, Element Group also did business with at least one Defense Department contractor that sold equipment to SEAL Team 6. Thats still not likely to win back many of his former comrades in arms, like his former SEAL Team 6 commanding officer, whom Bissonnette was told kept a mock tombstone in his headquarters office with the shunned SEAL authors name on it. Bissonnettes racism and egocentricism are far more a factor. Via CBS News. Matthew Bissonnette is a Screenwriter known for being the ex-husband of an Emmy-award nominee Canadian actress, Molly Parker.. Molly has a number of Television and films credited to her name.Serving in Silence, Waking the Dead, Deadwood, Kissed, and House of Cards. Oct. 30, 2014. And thats why he said he wrote the new book, to share hard lessons learned on the battlefield, this time with the Pentagons permissionand to prove that he would have done it this way the first time, had he known better. Obama and Cabinet watching attack on bin Laden compound. Ed Buice, spokesperson for the NCIS, confirmed the ongoing investigation into Bissonnette, but declined to elaborate. In the early- to mid-1980s, he toured and recorded with jazz trumpeterMaynard Ferguson. For part of his time in the Ferguson band, he played alongside his brother Gregg, which the brothers have done several times in their careers. He gave one to two young children whose mother is dying of Stage 4 breast cancer, George said. Director: Who Loves the Sun. Fox News quoted one SEAL saying How do we tell our guys to stay quiet when this guy wont? Other accounts have members of the SEALs going as far as calling him a traitor., SEAL Team 6 Hero Nicolas Checque: Top 10 Facts You Need to Know. Andrew Blake can be reached at ablake@washingtontimes.com. and had the criminal charges dropped against Rove under highly questionable circumstances, acknowledging that Roves outing was a high security risk for the C.I.A. Racisim is a conditioned response by a group that sees itself as superior even though, in most cases, it is actually a minority and in many ways equal to or inferior to those it persecutes as in Tsarist and now Putinian Russia when it is disparagingly anti-Moscovites and treats those from Siberia and the steepes as lower beings. He appears with his nose flattened and his skull cut in half, O'Neill told the paper of photos he and other SEALs took. Consider what the world of media would look like without The Intercept. There are people in the community who arent talking to me anymore, he said, especially active-duty SEALs who fear their careers would be ended if caught communicating with him. Bissonnette exposed in Iran. Bissonnette has promised to donate most of his earnings to a number of charities. Bissonnette stated that most of the proceeds from the book will be donated to families of SEALs killed in action. This version of events indicates that there was little real effort made to capture bin Laden, the capture being what Obama and civilized societies wanted so that bin Laden would be tried at the Hague. Bissonnettes goal was self-glorification and makes no pretense that he went into Pakistan to assassinate, in cold-blood (similar to the Saudis cold-blooded destruction of the World Trade Center and wrongful loss of life where I lost family and friends) bin Laden the author of numerous atrocities. A former Navy SEAL who took part in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden kept a secret photo of the terrorist's corpse, sources say. Matthew Bissonnette Navy SEAL 2012. Rather than scaling back the scope of the bin Laden raid, in fact, it was Obama who ordered more choppers to go on the operation, according to Admiral Mike Mullen, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the Staff. Matthew Bissonnette . Registration on or use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Service. Matt moved to Los Angeles in 1983 where he played in many Top 40 bands, one of which was the band Airplay at Disneyland where he met a girl singer named Chariya who he later married and has been married to for 26 years. Matt Bissonnette, the former Navy SEAL who wrote a memoir about the May 2011 raid to kill Osama bin Laden, appeared on Sunday night's episode of "60 Minutes.". Yoo argued that water boarding and all other forms of torture, including plucking out human eyes from the heads of prisoners were justifieda remembrance of medieval Roman Catholic Inquisition codes. 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. Bissonnette claims in his book that an unnamed DEVGRU teammate actually fired the shots that killed Bin Laden, not O'Neill who claims that the unnamed teammate fired and missed. but multiple sources told Fox News his name is in fact Matt Bissonnette, 36, of Wrangell . 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 . 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. For the curious among us, a Google image search of bin laden body turns up hundreds of photographs of the dead terrorist leader, but none have ever been confirmed as genuine. ST LOUIS (LALATE) - Matt Bissonnette photos of the Navy Seal book author "Mark Owen" have been released. The book also led to a string of internal Navy investigations, according to several former SEAL Team 6 operators. 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. [9][7], The book was published by Dutton Penguin and went on sale 4 September 2012. 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. That SEAL who was also on the bin Laden raid was given a non-judicial punishment by the Navy that ended his military career but allows for an honorable discharge, according to one of the two people familiar with the case. O'Neill and Matt Bissonnette, wrote books and did interviews in which . He has since sued an attorney he consulted, claiming the lawyer advised him the manuscript did not have to be reviewed by the Pentagon. From left are Steven Ebuna, Ryan McNamee, Matt Duncan and Craig Bissonnette. Mr. Bissonnette, who authored a best-selling book on the raid, No Easy Day, had been the subject of a Department of Justice probe launched in the wake of allegations he had unlawfully possessed classified material, The Intercept reported on Monday. John Hudson. Bissonnettes book is chock-full of blacked-out lines of text showing that Pentagon censors had their way with the manuscript, but somewhat sloppily, deleting whole pages to remove references to what was apparently a joint U.S.-Pakistan military operation inside Pakistan. [CDATA[/* >