{"id":31828,"date":"2012-08-31T08:04:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T12:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31828"},"modified":"2012-08-31T08:10:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T12:10:54","slug":"pentagon-to-bissonet-see-you-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31828","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to Bissonnette:  &#8220;See You In Court&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the Pentagon is going to play hardball with former SEAL Matt Bissonnette (AKA &#8220;Mark Owen&#8221;) regarding his book.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2012\/08\/30\/pentagon-to-consider-legal-action-against-ex-seal-author-bin-laden-raid-book\/\">The DoD General Counsel reportedly informed Bissonnette yesterday <\/a>that the Pentagon is considering legal action against him and his publisher to force them to forfeit proceeds from Bissonnette&#8217;s upcoming book <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">No Easy Day<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like Bissonnette should have actually read his<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/isoo\/security-forms\/sf312.pdf\"> Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement, especially paragraphs 3 and 5.<\/a>\u00a0 In paragraph 3, he specifically agreed to submit potentially classified manuscripts for prepublication classification review.\u00a0 (He didn&#8217;t.)\u00a0 And in paragraph 5, Bissonnette agreed in writing to forfeit all proceeds obtained through the unauthorized release of classified information.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t any kind of government power grab, or &#8220;prior restraint&#8221; of any type.\u00a0 Bissonnette screwed himself here.\u00a0 He signed a formal, enforceable legal agreement with the government, and he later violated that agreement.\u00a0 So now he gets the consequences &#8211; which were spelled out for him <em>a priori<\/em>.\u00a0 He gets no sympathy from me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the Pentagon is going to play hardball with former SEAL Matt Bissonnette (AKA &#8220;Mark &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon to Bissonnette:  &#8220;See You In Court&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31828\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon to Bissonnette:  &#8220;See You In Court&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,84,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-military-issues","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}