No Easy Day book makes days harder on other Navy SEALS

Experts: Former SEAL May be 'Endangering Our Own'
Sep 05, 2012
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
by Jeremy Boren

The former Navy SEAL behind a firsthand account of the daring raid that killed terror leader Osama bin Laden risks endangering his ex-comrades and violating a revered code of silent service, some in the intelligence and special warfare communities say.

"I do hope the author did not disclose any classified information because he did not get it prescreened" by the government, said Steve Howard, former chief of training for the Special Operations Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa. "The special operations community takes a dim view of members who go public with information that they have promised not to disclose."

The Defense Department warned author Matt Bissonnette and his publisher, Penguins Putnam, last week that his book "No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama bin Laden," violates nondisclosure agreements he signed while he was a SEAL.

Bissonnette did not allow Pentagon officials to inspect the book before publication to determine if it contains classified information about the May 2, 2011, raid by SEAL Team 6 in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

"Some of the things I've heard about the book, he could have some people looking for him, and I'm not talking about Americans. I'm talking about the other side," former SEAL Don Tocci told WBZ-TV, a CBS-affiliate TV station in Boston.

Jihadists on al Qaida websites have posted purported photos of the author, calling for his murder.

Bissonnette wrote under a pen name, Mark Owen. Fox News first revealed Mark Owen to be Bissonnette, and it was later confirmed to The Associated Press.
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