Rob O'Neill Broke the SEAL Code by Going Public. Some Teammates Still Stand by Him.
Filings in O’Neill's defamation lawsuit lean heavily on SEAL teammates vouching for his integrity as the dispute over the bin Laden raid widens into a fight over credibility.
Rob O’Neill, the man who claims he killed Osama bin Laden, has two Silver Stars, four Bronze Stars with valor, and spent eight years in SEAL Team Six. He also has something most war heroes don’t need: a stack of testimonials from former teammates defending his reputation.
I obtained all the exhibits Rob O’Neill filed in his $25 million defamation suit against two military podcasters who say he lied about firing the fatal shots. The materials reveal the fault line running through Naval Special Warfare over O’Neill’s decision to go public, and the SEALs who stand by him anyway. They are posted below.
O’Neill argues that former Delta Force operator Brent Tucker and ex-deputy sheriff Tyler Hoover, the hosts of The AntiHero Podcast, have damaged the brand he built around the mission—a brand that transformed 38 minutes in Abbottabad, Pakistan, into a bestselling memoir, a podcast, a cannabis company, a clothing line, s…
