Four armed Somali pirates . He added that he and another SEAL shot bin Laden again after finding him on his bedroom floor with a bullet in his skull, because bin Laden's hands were hidden. I got chills, George said, and just about everyone in the room teared up. A Tale of Two SEALs", "Navy Seals Face Disciplinary Action After Consulting On 'Medal Of Honor: Warfighter', "Book on bin Laden raid coming out Sept. 11", "Bin Laden Raid Book By Navy SEAL Coming", "How Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette Won the Bin Laden Book Competition", "Co-Author: 'Bad Blood' Didn't Cause Ex-SEAL to Pen Bin Laden Book Yahoo News", "Navy SEAL author of 'No Easy Day' back with new book, despite controversy", "Ex-SEAL Member Who Wrote Book on Bin Laden Raid Forfeits $6.8 Million", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Matt_Bissonnette_(author)&oldid=1138514962, This page was last edited on 10 February 2023, at 02:49. [11][12] It also made the New York Times bestseller list. Those who advised Obama were National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, White House chief of staff William Daley, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan and deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough. 12 following. In the book, former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette, who published the book under the name "Mark Owen," says that Jen was "recruited by the agency out of college," had been "working on the . He holds Canadian citizenship and maintains a Caucasian ethnicity. Enjoy the book by Bissonnette and then read other accounts including those released by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and others. Sign up and stay up to date with our daily newsletter. A Tea Party registered Republicanwho calls Wrangell, Alaska home, Bissonnette claims he wrote the book seeking revenge for being kicked out of Team 6 of the SEAL program. [10], Bissonnette and his publisher decided to release the book without first submitting it for a United States Department of Defense(DoD) review, which generated much controversy. Bissonnette stretched the truth so far it was more like aBlack-widow spiders web. | Thats when Element Group shut down.. 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. Reagan had worked with the Iran Ayatollahs to prevent the release of Americans until he had won the Presidency of the USA. Contributed photo. US Navy/Wikipedia. Facebook gives people the. Curls. Obama watching attack on bin Laden (Romania News). Matt Bissonnette is known for Who Loves the Sun (2006), Passenger Side (2009) and Looking for Leonard (2002). /*-->*/. The SEALs are not happy with Bissonnette and his book. Bissonnette will keep the money from No Herothough he intends to give the lions share of the royalties from No Easy Day to charity after paying his legal bills. 1982), all acting in full contempt of the Geneva Convention. Matt Bissonnette has been told by the U.S. military that he allegedly is in break of confidentiality agreements he signed while .