For years Pastor Jim Moats had been telling his Newville, Pennsylvania congregation that he was a former Navy SEAL. So after the bin Laden raid the local paper, The Patriot-News, asked Moats for his perspective on the attack. But when he regaled them with his own history as a SEAL, replete with scenes lifted from Steven Seagal’s “Under Seige” and “GI Jane” his story started to unravel.
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