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Date: January 21, 2015 02:41AM
The story he told fellow SEALS was that he was sent by the U.S. government into New Orleans, after Katrina, to help restore order and protect innocents, by taking out armed looters. Kyle's claims are preposterous--that's probably why they didn't make it into the movie. From NOLA.com:
"Because he's a proved liar, we should be awfully skeptical about Kyle's claim that the U.S. government sent him into New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. They perched him atop the Superdome, he said, and it was from there that he picked off 30 looters in the city.
"A June 2014 Washington Post report about Kyle's 'unverifiable legacy' doesn't outright call the celebrated sniper a liar, but it nudges the reader toward that conclusion. After including a quote from one of Kyle's officers who said, 'I never heard that story,' the Washington Post writes, 'Does that mean it didn't happen? Who knows. It's certainly possible that Kyle... killed 30 armed assailants in New Orleans to protect its residents in Katrina's aftermath. But it's also possible Kyle couldn't let go of his own legend, and, in a haze of post-traumatic stress, let his tales veer into untruth.'"
http://www.nola.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2015/01/the_american_snipers_preposter.htmlFlawed, yes. But telling tall tales isn't quite homicide.