he was a member of my old unit, which was naval special warfare development group. is under. this story has got a lot of moving parts in that you have to wonder what story, in fact, he's going to tell. the original research that i delved into dealt with 45-minute firefights, helicopters crashing at the beginning, middle, and end. it was pretty hard to get the straight story out of the administration. and that became complicated to the extent that there's presently an ongoing congressional investigation over and treatment given to certain members of the media, namely kathryn bigelow and mark boll, who to the exclusion of all other historians and journalists were given exclusive access to the training sites. >> the u.s. command has said your book was full of fabrications. but bring me back to this author. why? if you know him or know him by two degrees of separation, what would motivate somebody who was part of this to actually pen a book about the inside story of this raid? >> well, the first thing i'd like to do is respond to the fabrications line. you know, the lin