<p>He is going on 60 Minutes on Sunday.</p>
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I hadn’t heard that.</p>
<p>On the anonymity - there’s no way he could have remained anonymous for long and of course, he was no longer anonymous even before the book was available. He’d be very naive to think he could remain anonymous on this. I don’t know how his identity actually came to light.</p>
<p>I’m a bit surprised the publisher (a division of Penguin, which is owned by the publishing giant Pearsons PLC), did not consider the national security side and ensure the author could write on the subject. Navy SEALs are typically a unique breed that does not talk about what they do/did. (Good family friends was CIA - I was always told growing up he worked for the State Dept).</p>
<p>I’m quite sure the publisher had their legal department vet it (no pun intended!) and decided the potential profits outweighed any liability. Risk to national security was probably not their main concern.</p>
<p>Isn’t this the guy who shot Bin Ladin? Are they really going to prosecute him? With people in the White House outing operatives overseas and giving details to moviemakers about the same raid, he likely thought he would get a pass.</p>
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<p>The Pentagon has no control over things that happen at the CIA.</p>
<p>Also, there are lots of people up in arms about the fact that the CIA seems to have been instructed, from the highest levels of the U.S. government, to share information with Hollywood producers that will be released in a movie.</p>
<p>Regarding video games, I don’t think anyone is going to learn SEAL tactics from a video game. Let’s be real.</p>
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<p>does he claim he is the guy that shot UBL?</p>
<p>AFAIK, the person who pulled the trigger hasn’t been identified (and really, none of the SOF are identified by name, generally)</p>