{"id":31737,"date":"2012-08-24T09:48:27","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31737"},"modified":"2012-08-24T23:49:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T03:49:31","slug":"navgeneral-mcraven-tells-specops-troops-to-zip-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31737","title":{"rendered":"Navy General McRaven tells SpecOps troops to zip it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2192643\/Barack-Obama-botches-rank-Navy-SEAL-William-McRaven.html#ixzz24T3sA1vM\">the President says he&#8217;s a general<\/a>, he&#8217;s a general, by golly. But General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2012\/08\/ap-mcraven-tells-troops-pipe-down-082412\/\">McRaven commander of Special Operations Command threatened his troops with legal action<\/a> if they reveal Special Operations secrets to the public, in the wake of the pending release of the book &#8220;No Easy Day&#8221; written by Matt Bissonnette under the pseudonym Mark Owen;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Special operations chief Adm. Bill McRaven warned his troops, current and former, that he would take legal action against anyone found to have exposed sensitive information that could cause fellow forces harm. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will pursue every option available to hold members accountable, including criminal prosecution where appropriate,&#8221; the four-star commander wrote, in an open, unclassified letter emailed to the active-duty special operations community Thursday and obtained by The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I agree with the good general or admiral or whatever, he ought to put that much emphasis on busting out members of the White House staff who have been talking about the operations, too. That doesn&#8217;t make it right for the military to do it, because they shouldn&#8217;t be aping those low-life civilians. <\/p>\n<p>More on the subject <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2012\/08\/another-guy-who-should-stfu-about-bin-laden-raid.html\">from Mr. Hanson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Chief Tango for the links.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, if the President says he&#8217;s a general, he&#8217;s a general, by golly. But General McRaven &hellip; <a title=\"Navy General McRaven tells SpecOps troops to zip it\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31737\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Navy General McRaven tells SpecOps troops to zip it<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}