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 ...
Shaffer doesn’t seem like the type to throw national security to the wind.
If the GOP screwed up, they deserve to be exposed right along with the democrats. No more Pelosi style swamp draining.
Censorship rarely works, even in a totalitarian society. Just ask the Chinese.
And the Muslim countries. Hey! What a coincidence! Praise Allah! (massive sarcasm, but very true these days)
The author does not have the right to publish classified information he acquired under a security clearance. We he was granted the clearance he agreed to maintain confidentiality, and get any publications reviewed.
That is NOT the same as Chinese censorship of the public internet, for example.
The author did not follow the agreed review process, and now the DoD is catching up.
The author is still going to publish, but the specific names and dates and sensitive info like that need not be published.
That is not totalitarian.
His testimony in post 10 is chilling. I don’t have the time to read the whole thing now.
I get the idea that politics trumps winning the war on terror from his testimony.
We he = When he... Sorry, I got wee wee’d up.
The author does not have the right to publish classified information he acquired under a security clearance. When he was granted the clearance he agreed to maintain confidentiality, and get any publications reviewed.
That is NOT the same as Chinese censorship of the public internet, for example.
The author did not follow the agreed review process, and now the DoD is catching up.
The author is still going to publish, but the specific names and dates and sensitive info like that need not be published.
That is not totalitarian.
3 copies for sale on ebay. One has a bid of $100, one is buy it now for $250, one listed with an opening bid of $500.
eBay has copies with bids ranging from $250 to $500.
Big Brother at work. Henry Ford did this a LONG time ago, hoping to buy all the copies of a book called “We never called him Henry.” But Ford was a private citizen, not the govt.
The book will hit the Internet, uncensored, making the censored version worthless. I guarantee it! And our money will be wasted, again, on a fruitless effort to buy out the book. Still dumb, IMO.
If the author has violated his security clearance, he should be arrested, yet I do not see that happening.
It’s even dumber than that. Hasn’t the Pentagon ever heard of Kindle?
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This is a movie I would go see.
I saw a very brief interview with Shaffer this morning. He DID get the usual review & it was approved for publishing. Another office has now cried foul & wants to block the book, but Shaffer says everything in the book is already out in the public domain. Nothing new, although there’s probably stuff that isn’t *common* knowledge.
There are two currently up on ebay, buy it now $15.99.
WOW! MAKE THAT ‘WERE!’ They went fast.
http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=%27Operation+Dark+Heart%27&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=
Probably the journolistas are snatching them up as fast as the pentagon.
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