Flashback:
Able Danger raises its head - again!
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Shaffer has *never* relented .. God bless him.
Posted on 09/10/2010 7:41:49 AM PDT by STARWISE
The Defense Department is attempting to buy the entire first printing - 10,000 copies - of a memoir by a controversial former Defense Intelligence Agency officer so that the book can be destroyed, according to military and other sources.
"Operation Dark Heart," which was scheduled to be published this month by St. Martin's Press, recounts the adventures and frustrations of an Army reservist, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who served in Afghanistan in 2003, a moment when the attention of Washington and the military had shifted to Iraq.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
** Ping!
Any other source than the WaPo?
Amazon.com has it “out of Stock”!
Do freepers want the book released or not?
Exposing intelligence shortfalls by the Clinton administration good, names and dates of covert operations not so good?
If there are prepublication copies out there, it is only a matter of time before they get leaked.
Wondering whther he plans to publish on the Internet....
Barnes and Noble:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Dark-Side-of-the-Force/Anthony-Shaffer/e/9780312612177/?itm=1&USRI=Operation+Dark+Heart
Wait a second! I thought in America we don’t DESTROY books! Put Dark Side of the Force covers on 10,000 Korans and ship them to the Pentagon.
Won't destroying this book ignite the Middle East... what say you General Petraeus ?!
I suppose it would be o.k. to burn this book, based on the way the DOD is reacting.
Buying out the book has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.
Duh! If the first printing is sold out, the publisher is likely to have a second printing, & maybe 1 million copies, & maybe double the price, too. If you can’t prevent the first publishing, you sure can’t prevent the second, or third, or fourth, ....
Will the Pentagon continue buying out the book until the publisher gets tired of the money?
I thought Fahrenheit 451 was a fictional work? Perhaps not.
Read the article. The second/subsequent printings have been censored by the DoD.
The publisher and the DOD have agreed to a “safe” version. The DOD wants to buy the initial 10000 copy print run and destroy that printing.
The problem is there are copies that have already been distributed to reviewers, media outlets.
Don't worry. We're the ones paying for them. Too bad we'll never get to read what we bought.
We're being censored. This administration will tell us what's acceptable reading and what is not. Welcome to the U.S.S.A.
Have a nice day (that's an executive order!).
Then put it on the internet!
Don’t they realize that if they destroy this book it will put writers everywhere in danger! We must stop this! Hopefully Obama will ask the army to listen to the other angels.
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