About the book: You can buy the redacted version with lots of black blocking-out. The DOD burned all the unredacted copies. A few of them got away—thirty-seven or so that were sent to reviewers—and some of these are, or were, available on eBay for thousands of dollars.
Shaffer was on C-SPAN at the National Book Festival (and other shows) and they had callers call in with questions. One guy who called in said he was the production editor at St. Martin’s who was responsible for making the changes according to the DOD instructions. He said that there are enough errors (something blacked out in one paragraph that then then appears later) that you can pretty much figure out what was blacked out.
Whether this was a ploy to sell more copies of the redacted book I do not know, but that is what the production editor said.
A note to anyone who bids.....you will likely be bidding against the US govt.