New details have emerged that while Director of the CIA, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta divulged Top Secret details of the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, potentially jeopardizing the safety of the Navy SEALs who executed the raid, and their families.
Panetta apparently let slip the name of the unit that executed the raid, as well as the identity of the ground scene commander, during remarks at an awards ceremony at the CIA complex in June 2011.
More than 1,300 people were in attendance, including the screenwriter of “Zero Dark Thirty,” Mark Boal, according to a copy of the unreleased Pentagon Inspector General’s report obtained by the Project on Government Oversight.