Will the Government Seize Bissonnettes Pfofits?

   Matt Bissonnette is in a very unenvionable position, which is on the dog list of the US government. A government official has pubicly declared that the government can seize all profits received by Matt Bissonnette for his book “No Easy Day.” Once you get the US government mad at you forget it. They won't stop until they take you down and once they take you down they do it right.

Even if the book, written under the pseudonym Mark Owen, contains no classified information, the author breached his contract with the government by not submitting it for pre-publication review. This was not an intelligent move at all. It seems that he would have known better.

I believe though that if I had seen the opportunity to make money the way that he did I would have done the same thing. unfortunately for him it just didn't work. He knows that if he had allowed the government to know that he was intending to write the book they would have shut it down before it got started.

They are using a 1980 Supreme Court decision which upheld a similar contract that was signed by Frank Snepp, a former CIA officer. In that case, no classified information was disclosed, but the proceeds from Snepp’s book were placed in trust for the government. I believe that the government will do the same thing in this situation because they want to make an example to prevent future occurences.

Snepp failed to submit his book for review, and the government seized the profits from the book, which is the same as the Bissonnette case. The Pentagon has said the book does contain classified information. The book itself refers to the entire mission as being top secret. But Martin says, “You do not have to bring criminal charges against anyone, and you can punish him by seizing his profits, and you remove the incentive, which was the big point in the Snepp case removing the incentive of making profits from breaching your contract with the government.”

Bissonnette should have thought about the fact that so much of the information that he was privy to was classified so it would be very easy for him to inadvertently give classified details. He may have included something minute and seemingly insignificant, but even so, if it was classified the government has a case against him.

I think that most of our Navy SEAL military ring customers don't like the fact that he wrote about this incident at all. It undermines future operations by telling about tactics that they might need to use again