Navy Seal to Publish Book on Bin Laden Killing
O'BRIEN: It's the first account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden from someone who was actually there. A man claims he was a member of the U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six coming out with a book about some of the most thrilling 38 minutes in modern military history. And just like the raid, no one saw it coming. Its release date is on September 11 of 2012, coming up. Barbara Starr live at the Pentagon with this. Barbara, one, a big shocker at the Pentagon that in fact this book is coming from a Navy SEAL or a former Navy SEAL is being released. First of all, what's the fallout from that?</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, look, you know, let's look at the book cover right off the top. The title of this book is going to be "no easy day." that actually is kind of pretty much the attitude around the Pentagon. Nothing seems to be easy these days here for the military. They did not know this book was coming, we are told. They just heard about it a couple of days ago. So why? Because the author did not put it through for security review. Normally, even if you are out, even if you're retired, these kinds of books should be submitted traditionally for a review for classified material, inadvertently being in a manuscript.</s>O'BRIEN: Do they know who the author is? I know he is using a pen name.</s>STARR: His pen name is Mark Owen. But he says he is the team leader, one of the team leaders that night. There were only so many team leaders so they have a good idea who it is. He is working with another writer who is very respected by the U.S. military. So by all accounts this is the real deal, first-hand account how it was on the ground.</s>O'BRIEN: But there's been much going back and forth about the leaks and the revealing of things that should not have been revealed. This is the first time somebody on the ground -- this is not a leak. It's just a tell. What does that do to that debate?</s>STARR: What about all of the tell-alls? You've got movies. You have the new Osama bin Laden movie by Kathryn Bigelow coming up that the government gave a little help. You've been covering it. This committee of former military people out there that is criticizing the administration for talking. And now of course you have a Navy SEAL talking about all of this. What is this doing? Well, you know, Admiral William McCraven, the top op guy in Special Operations, is very concerned about this, we've been told. He thinks that there's -- you know that people need to ratchet back. He wants America to understand what they do for a living and what they -- what kind of roles they perform, but there's a lot of concern in the community. You have a lot of guys out there Soledad still out on the line, still working very much covertly, not for very much money, and they are not cashing in. They are still out there doing it. Their families are sending them off on deployment after deployment. The question is, is all of this cashing in going to start affecting morale?</s>O'BRIEN: Yes, big question there. Barbara Starr for us at the Pentagon this morning. Thanks Barbara I appreciate it.</s>STARR: Sure.</s>O'BRIEN: Still ahead on STARTING POINT, he is the legendary coach of the Washington Redskins. Now he is a Nascar championship team owner. Still ahead, Joe Gibbs will sit down with us. You're watching STARTING POINT. We're back in a moment.