Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said Thursday on MSNBC’s “The Beat” that Justice Samuel Alito’s comments about SEAL Team 6 were “mocking our military” during the Supreme Court oral arguments on former President Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution.
The first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six, Richard Marcinko, passed away at the age of 81 on Saturday night.
“By the way, we’re leaving the name Fort Bragg in case you had any questions,” he said. “Let that word out, if you don’t mind.
Reuters reported that six gunmen on motorbikes with AK-47s seized Walton and left his family and brother tied up in their home.
On May 2, 2011, SEAL Team Six breached Osama bin Laden’s Abbottadad, Pakistan compound and ended the life of the most wanted terrorist on earth, and the team member who actually shot bin Laden reportedly did so with a Heckler & Koch 416.
Over the weekend, the normally stolid New York Times published an almost hysterical screed targeting the operators of the Navy’s SEAL Team Six. The article accused them of a variety of war crimes, including the unprovoked murder of civilians, the summary execution of enemy combatants, the mutilation of corpses and the use of snipers to kill little girls.
This past weekend, Congressman Ryan Zinke (R-MT) joined Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow for a special Memorial Day edition of Breitbart News Radio. Zinke shared with the listening audience his insights into the fall of the city of Ramadi, Iraq, to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and the release of information about documents from the Navy SEAL Team Six Osama bin Laden raid.
More trouble for NBC’s Brian Williams. In 2012, he told David Letterman: “I flew into Baghdad, invasion plus three days, on a blackout mission at night with elements of SEAL Team Six,” but at that time he was based in, and apparently didn’t leave, Kuwait.
Ret. Lieutenant General Asa Durrani, who is also former director general of Pakistan’s Inter-Service’s Intelligence (ISI), says Pakistan “likely” knew where Osama bin Laden was and turned him over to the United States in exchange for a bigger say/better role “in the future of Afghanistan.”
