{"id":31850,"date":"2012-09-01T08:12:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T12:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31850"},"modified":"2012-09-01T09:34:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-01T13:34:37","slug":"doubling-down-stupidly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31850","title":{"rendered":"Doubling Down – Stupidly"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looks like Bissonnette is planning on thumbing his nose at DoD<\/a>.\u00a0 And he and his lawyer are planning to use an . . . interesting and novel legal argument:<\/p>\n

According to the letter, the nondisclosure agreement signed by Bissonnette when he was a SEAL only applied to “specially identified Special Access Programs” and not missions such as the May 1, 2011 raid.<\/p>\n

That’s an argument that may come as a surprise to some legal experts, who considered the Pentagon’s case against Bissonnette a “slam dunk”<\/a> given his failure to submit his book for pre-publication review.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The letter referenced above was from Bissonnette’s lawyer to DoD.<\/p>\n

I’m thinking that Bissonnette needs to find another lawyer – fast.\u00a0 Because this one appears to be leading him down the proverbial primrose path.\u00a0\u00a0 Another way to describe the legal theory his lawyer is using besides “interesting and novel” is “naive, foolish, and wrong” – or, alternatively, “hope you enjoy your stay at the crossbar hotel”.<\/p>\n

Classified information nondisclosure agreements are like burqas – they cover damn near everything.\u00a0 They’re not<\/span> limited to “specially identified Special Access Programs”.<\/p>\n

IMO, teh stoopid<\/em> appears to be running amok here. Bissonnette needs to remember that when a sledgehammer hits a walnut, it’s generally not the sledgehammer that gets damaged.\u00a0 And DoD knows how to swing a sledge.<\/p>\n

———<\/p>\n

For those interested:\u00a0 a decent but brief analysis of Bissonnette’s actual legal situation may be found here<\/a>.\u00a0 He’s on damned thin ice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looks like Bissonnette is planning on thumbing his nose at DoD.\u00a0 And he and his lawyer … Doubling Down – Stupidly<\/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":[177,15,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumbass-bullshit","category-legal","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31850","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=31850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}