Friday, June 28, 2013

Benghazi Security Team To Reveal All In A Book

The CIA annex in Benghazi. Cryptome

Benghazi Security Team Nails $3M Book Deal -- New York Post

The tragic events in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012, are still of great interest to Americans — and book publishers are willing to pay up to tell the story.

Twelve Books, which announced this week it signed a deal with four members of the elite security team from the annex of the US Embassy in the Mideast town, is paying a $3 million advance, Media Ink has learned.

The book by the authors — whose names were not released — is scheduled to be released in 2014.

“The actions of these men were nothing short of amazing,” Sean Desmond, Twelve editorial director, said in a statement.

Neither Twelve Publisher Deb Futter nor Richard Abate, of 3 Arts Entertainment, which sold the rights to Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group, would comment on the size of the advance.

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Update #1: Four US Special Operators From The Benghazi Security Team Are Writing A Book For $3 Million -- Business Insider
Update #2: Here Comes the $3 Million Benghazi Tell-All -- The Atlantic Wire

My Comment: This should be revealed in front of a Congressional committee .... not through a book deal.

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