[sam_paine]

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The author is still going to publish, but the specific names and dates and sensitive info like that need not be published.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.

[sam_paine]

We he = When he... Sorry, I got wee wee’d up.

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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The author is still going to publish, but the specific names and dates and sensitive info like that need not be published.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.

[Mister Da]

I'm not trying to imply the Pentagon is totalitarian or acting like the Chinese. I'm saying that censorship does not work even in the most repressive of societies. It does not work.

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.

[STARWISE]

Let’s just wait until there’s actual confirmation
of any potential violation or not .. shall we?
Unless we have some axe to grind ...

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“Burgess demanded that the favorable review given by the Army Reserve be revoked and the manuscript be resubmitted.

By then though, the book had already been printed but not distributed, Zaid said.

Review copies of the book had gone out, and some had turned up for sale on the Internet.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon, the publisher, and Shaffer have been negotiating changes in a new edition of the book.

“Some of the changes that were negotiated were perfectly acceptable but others we agreed to disagree and they will be in the book as redacted text,” Zaid said in an email. “We have the option, but have not yet decided, to sue the government to challenge the redactions.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100910/pl_afp/usafghanistanmilitaryintelligencebook_20100910211647

[Brown Deer]

The author does not have the right to publish classified information he acquired under a security clearance.

He didn't. The manuscript was reviewed and approved for publication by the Army.