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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:55PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 22 2016, @05:55PM (#391754)

    Yes classified-when-sent-to-her

    Irrelevant. When classified information is moved outside of proper, secured areas, it is the duty of clearance holders to report the mishandled classified data immediately - failure to do so is a federal crime.

    I already posted the link and cited the section in the grandparent, but since you ignored it the first time, here it is again: 18 USC 793 (f) [cornell.edu]

    Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—

    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

    I'm ready for Hillary's ten years!