Censorship and issues of National Security are not the same thing. Naturally, NYT chooses to ignore the reality of difference.
The army approved the book, 100 copies were distributed. From what I have been able to glean from my internet search, this is more about keeping Clinton and the democrats from getting embarrased by their backwards policy towards Al-Qaeda and Mohamed Atta pre 911. National Security is what failed us on September 11th 2001.
Was this about National Security?
The Justice Department initially said Berger stole only copies of classified documents and not originals. But the House Government Reform Committee later revealed that an unsupervised Berger had been given access to classified files of original, uncopied, uninventoried documents on terrorism. Several Archives officials acknowledged that Berger could have stolen any number of items and they “would never know what, if any, original documents were missing.”