AP Getting Sued
Via The Trainer, Navy SEALS are suing the Associated Press:
Six Navy SEALs and two of their wives filed a lawsuit against The Associated Press and one of its reporters today for allegedly revealing their identities in photos published in early December, according to a press release from the plaintiffs.
The complaint, filed in California Superior Court, alleges that AP reporter Seth Hettena obtained a photograph in a personal Web site maintained by one of the wives of the Navy SEALs, which contains personal photographs.
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“There was no need for the AP to publish the faces of the SEALs,” Huston, the Morrison & Foerster partner who is heading the plaintiffs’ legal team, said in a statement. “They added nothing to the value of the story. In fact, the SEALs showed more respect for the insurgents and terrorists that they were apprehending by obscuring their faces than the AP did for the Navy SEALs who were in Iraq risking their lives,” he added.
I’m not sure, but I think SEALS are sort of top secret. Maybe even identifying them at all could be illegal.
December 29th, 2004 at 10:06 am
Umm, these folks had the SEALS on an internet site and the AP had access to it? Does not sound too secure to me. However, there could be some Copyright problems, but otherwise if it was fair game to view then it is fair game.
If you want your stuff to be private, don’t post it on the web.
December 29th, 2004 at 10:13 am
I agree. But i’m wondering if posting it on the web also may violate some sort of security rule.
BTW, guy, where’ve you been?
December 29th, 2004 at 3:33 pm
I suspect the posting on the web would eb a security rule violation, as well as taking the pictures in the first place.
Been busy changing jobs, moving, trying to get a mortgage and trying to fins a place where I can try a Para-Ord. Warthog on a range.
Oh, got my TN-HCP too 🙂
Piece out.
December 31st, 2004 at 4:16 pm
Heh. We pesky media types. Glad to see someone else is busy outting undercover operatives. Although, mine didn’t have a link to POW abuse, violating those pussy-ass Geneva Conventions. Wish I could have been so lucky.