So the SEALs “leak” classified information and they get punished… the imperial regime leaks info on the bin Laden raid, use it to spike the football multiple times for over a year along with working it into the campaign. Doesn’t stop there, they go ahead and give Hollywood access to operational info to make two movies pieces of propaganda and that’s all ok!
Word of advice to those in power, I wouldn’t be messing with guys who do what the teams do!
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FoxNews.com
WASHINGTON – Seven members of the secretive Navy SEAL Team 6, including one involved in the Usama bin Laden raid, have been punished for allegedly disclosing classified information, two senior military officials tell Fox News.
They were accused for their role working as paid consultants for a video game company producing “Medal of Honor: Warfighter.” The official says four other SEALs are under investigation for similar alleged disclosures, but are still on active duty.
The seven received what the military calls “nonjudicial” punishment on Wednesday. They were given letters of reprimand, which is often, but not exclusively, a career ending punishment — it depends on the commander’s discretion and whether or not he chooses to make it part of the offender’s permanent service record. In addition, the seven SEALs were made to forfeit half their pay for two months.
The deputy commander of Naval Special Warfare Command, Rear Adm. Garry Bonelli, issued a statement acknowledging that nonjudicial punishments had been handed out for misconduct, but he did not offer any details.
“We do not tolerate deviations from the policies that govern who we are and what we do as sailors in the United States Navy,” Bonelli said. He alluded to the importance of honoring nondisclosure agreements that SEALs sign.
He said the punishments this week “send a clear message throughout our force that we are and will be held to a high standard of accountability.”
The two main complaints against the SEALs were that they did not seek the permission of their command to take part in the video project and that they showed the video designers some of their specially designed combat equipment unique to their unit, said a senior military official. The official was briefed about the case but was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
Because the SEALs failed to ask permission to take outside, paid jobs, commanders were not able to approve or vet jobs, and that amounts to a violation of orders.
SEALs, including some of those involved in the bin Laden raid of May 2011, have been uncharacteristically prominent in the news this year.
The nonjudicial punishment was handed down within recent days, but revelations of the scandal came about during around the time Matt Bissonnette wrote a firsthand account under the pseudonym Mark Owen of the bin Laden raid.…read more