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.
Well now, it was OK to leak all kinds of CIA, DIA, and other sensitive stuff during the Bush years and yet this “Able Danger” saga continues despite all of the efforts to bury it (along with the latest stargate they found./sarc). This operation did the main bulk of its work during the time of Clinton but we can’t just seem to see it now? Where is the creep from WikiLeaks?
Sensenbrenner virtually ended his career and position of seniority on trying to bring to light the details of this one operation. He knows the details and now all of a sudden he is holding his tongue? Geez the relevations must be incredibly damaging to Bubba and the Hildebeast.
If that's true, and the publisher has already cut a deal with DoD for a sanitized version for use in subsequent printings without Shaffer's ok, Shaffer might have a cause of action. The very fact that DoD cut this deal tells me he played by the rules, had the manuscript vetted and Ok'd by DoD, then a new administration pulls the rug out from under him. Otherwise they'd shut him down and say, "tough."
As the copyright holder, he's given the publisher the right to copy and sell a specific work. Significant alteration would be a derivative. Unless he had an idiot attorney and agent, he likely wouldn't have granted use of the copyright in such blanket fashion.
A sanitized version would have virtually no market. The actions taken after the fact by a different administration in concert with the publisher effectively interferes with Shaffer's right to make a living. They will have devalued what is obviously a hot product to worthlessness. Additionally, it's likely that the DoD is getting significant discount off cover price, as do all bulk sales. Since royalties are usually figured off the actual price paid, Shaffer is probably getting shafted to the tune of 60% off what he'd reasonably be expected to have gotten. With a new, worthless, sanitized version, he has no way of selling through his advance and earning any royalties above the advance he got at signing.