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Bin Laden Raid Bestseller's Author to Pay $7m for Violating NDA

posted by takyon on Monday August 22 2016, @11:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the shhhhh dept.

n1 writes:

A former US Navy Seal who wrote a bestseller about his role in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden is to pay nearly $7m (£5m) to the government for violating non-disclosure agreements.

Matt Bissonette failed to get clearance from the Pentagon before the book No Easy Day was published in 2012.

He has agreed to forfeit all profits and royalties, as well as film rights and speaking fees.

In exchange, the government will dismiss other liability claims.

Source: BBC News

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @02:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @02:28PM (#391641)

    It's either gross negligence or gross incompetence on both the author and the publisher for not submitting the book. That is SOP and has been for decades. As a Special OPs guy, he should have known better, and the publisher really should have known better. Particularly after that whole Special OPs video game thing that happened not too long before.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @02:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @02:44PM (#391652)

    Maybe he got some hot chicks out of it. Lots of loudmouth guys in the bar claim they were SEALs and whatnot.