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30 letter from Jeh Johnson, the Pentagon’s top lawyer, to Bissonnette, via publisher Penguin Putnam, owner of the Dutton imprint.

The spokesman’s statements appear intended to back up an Aug. Owen’s’ own statements, he has already disclosed material at least to his attorney and his publisher - without prepublication review (purportedly in an effort to ascertain whether the text contained any classified information),” Breasseale said in the email. It has announced it is considering legal action against the former SEAL. The Pentagon on Tuesday for the first time said that the book, now at the top of Amazon’s best-seller list, does contain classified information, without being more specific. He pointed to another paragraph in the agreement which said that if the person signing the agreement was “uncertain about the classification status of information” they were “required to confirm from an authorized official that the information is unclassified before I may disclose it.” PENTAGON CONSIDERING LEGAL ACTION The spokesman was quoting part of a standard Pentagon secrecy agreement which he said was “identical” to one which Bissonnette had signed.īreasseale then pointed to a paragraph in the secrecy agreement in which the signer acknowledges that the purpose of a pre-publication review was “to give the United States a reasonable opportunity to determine” if any manuscript contained any sensitive classified information. In an email, Breasseale said the former Navy SEAL’s actions appear “to potentially violate his obligation not to disclose ‘the contents of such preparation to any person not authorized to have access to SCI (Sensitive Compartmented Information) until I have received written authorization from the Department or Agency that last authorized my access to SCI that such disclosure was permitted.’”

Breasseale said that the decision to seek a review of the manuscript for sensitive material by a “former special operations attorney” - which publisher Dutton has acknowledged - suggested Bissonnette had reason to believe it contained classified material.īissonnette and his attorney deny that “No Easy Day,” released earlier this week without pre-publication review by the government, contains classified information.īissonnette’s attorney, Robert Luskin, said he had no comment in response to the Pentagon’s latest statements.