In this file photo, Matt Bissonnette is shown as a member of Navy Seal Team 5. Matt moved to Los Angeles in 1983 where he played in many Top 40 bands, one of which was the band Airplay at Disneyland where he met a girl singer named Chariya who he later married and has been married to for 26 years. Word on the street is that Bissonnette is releasing the book in order to fight President Obama accidently taking credit for Bin Ladens death. | Matt Bissonette is currently doing freelance recording, producing and the bass player for Elton John. [11][12] It also made the New York Times bestseller list. The American people knew that justice was always for sale to the highest bidder. "I did his yard the other day," the mulch guy said between loads . Since joining T&P, he has led a talented team of writers, editors, and creators who produce military journalism reaching millions of readers each month. No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Matt Bissonnette (writing under the pen name Mark Owen), a member of the elite SEAL Team 6 that killed the . Copyright IBTimes 2023. Bissonette attended theUniversity of North Texas'sjazzmusic program. Bissonnette enlisted four teammates to join Element Group as consultants, according to several former members of SEAL Team 6. Matt Bissonnette, a former member of Navy SEAL Team 6 who wrote an account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, agreed on Friday to forfeit $6.8 million in book royalties and . A FORMER NAVY SEAL who shot Osama bin Laden and wrote a bestselling book about the raid is now the subject of a widening federal criminal . A new book about the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden, No Easy Day, officially released today, seems headed to the top of the bestseller lists. Cooper blames Bissonnette for revealing the central base from which DEVGRU operates and launches many of its missions. George W. Bush, Laura Bush, and handler Karl Rove. That SEAL who was also on the bin Laden raid was given a non-judicial punishment by the Navy that ended his military career but allows for an honorable discharge, according to one of the two people familiar with the case. Johnson notified Bissonnette, Karl Rove at Congressional investigation on CIA leak. Contributed photo. On LibraryThing: AFI on LibraryThing.com Bissonnette's new film, Death of a Ladies' Man, borrows the title of Cohen's 1977 album (and his 1978 collection of poetry and prose, Death of a Lady's Man). Matt Bissonette is a former United States Navy SEAL and author of No Easy Day, a book which he wrote using the pen name Mark Owen.The book chronicles his life and military service, but mostly is about his involvement with Operation Neptune Spear.Bissonnette writes that he was present on the third floor of Osama Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad when the terrorist leader was killed. LOS ANGELES (LALATE) - Mark Owen (real name Matt Bissonnette) allegedly reveals combat details in his new Navy SEAL book, military officials claim. Those who advised Obama were National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, White House chief of staff William Daley, White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan and deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough. No Easy Day, the . He Has Upset Current And Former SEALs For Bissonnette, it seems confusing and hypocritical. U.S. officials are still considering prosecuting him under criminal charges for allegedly purposefully avoiding a security review and revealing classified information. Element Group, for example, designed prototypes for sleeping bags and a tent system that would be sold commercially. And former Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kylenow lost to a stateside shootingwrote a book about his exploits in Iraq, as did former SEAL Rorke Denver, star of the Naval Special Warfare-sanctioned movie Act of Valor. He retired last summer. Former teammate Matt Bissonnette published the initial first-person account about the raid, "No Easy Day," using the pen name Mark Owen and . [CDATA[/* >