One of the Navy SEALS who consulted on EAâs upcoming Medal of Honor: Warfighter may have done so without getting proper military permission, according to the Los Angeles Times. This same person, identified by the newspaper as Matt Bissonnette, is also the author of No Easy Day, the controversial book that details the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
Bissonnette wrote No Easy Day under the pen name Mark Owen and came under fire for not getting the proper clearance from the Department of Defense before the book was published. It appears that EA didnât get the same kind of clearance for this yearâs Medal of Honor game either:
Military personnel are required to receive authorization to work on such projects to prevent classified information on military tactics, strategies and protocols being made public, officials said.
No such requests were made for the âWarfighterâ game, according to Defense Department spokesman Lt. Col. Damien Pickart and Col. Tim Nye, a spokesman for the U.S. Special Operations Command that oversees the Navy SEALs.
The L.A. Times quotes EA spokesperson Jeff Brown as saying:
âThe Department of Defense has never asked to vet the games or the contribution of veterans and active service members.â
Later in the piece, Brown confirms that Bissonnette/Owen worked on Warfighter through an intermediary company and says that EA didnât directly pay him for his work on the game. This latest development is the latest in a line of troubles that have trailed the Medal of Honor games.
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But engagement tactics are more rarefied information and any unsupervised exposure of them is viewed as potentially dangerous. The reasoning is that, without proper military vetting, the next Medal of Honor game could be giving up crucial secrets as to how American military forces respond to terrorist threats.
The L.A. Times piece ends by recounting Defense Secretary Leon Pannettaâs angry condemnation of No Easy Day earlier this month. You have to wonder if that kind of scoldingâand its associated legal repercussionsâmight be headed in EAâs direction before too long.
âMedal of Honor Warfighterâ enters dangerous territory [Los Angeles Times]
