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The author is still going to publish, but the specific names and dates and sensitive info like that need not be published.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