By Andrew P. Napolitano
The president's men trash the Constitution to pursue antagonists
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One of two Navy SEALs injured during parachute training in southern Arizona has died while the other man remained hospitalized Friday, authorities said.
Special operations commanders and some members of the Obama administration are courting the media with details on secret missions, such as the 2011 SEAL raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, to fit a political or public relations agenda, critics say.
The Navy's special warfare command granted permission for two SEALs to advise filmmakers for an upcoming movie about a doomed commando mission in Afghanistan.
The Obama administration has gone to extraordinary lengths to publicize details of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, even as it threatens to file criminal charges against a former Navy SEAL because he provided the same type of mission rundown in his recently published book.
Special-operations troops think the elite force is facing difficulties by accepting open gays into one of the military's more politically conservative communities.
U.S. Special Operations Command spokesman Kenneth McGraw said the SEALs were practicing "routine military free-fall training" when the accident occurred.
Kenneth McGraw, another SOCOM spokesman, said the SEALs provide information about "physical conditioning and training about how to shoot, move and communicate like a SEAL."
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