Pentagon Plan: Buying Books to Keep Secrets

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/us/10books.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=pentagon&st=cse


Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of an Afghan war memoir they say contains intelligence secrets, according to two people familiar with the dispute.

(would that be our tax money they are buying the books with hhmmm....)

The publication of “Operation Dark Heart,” by Anthony A. Shaffer, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, has divided military security reviewers and highlighted the uncertainty about what information poses a genuine threat to security.

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By the time the D.I.A. objected, however, several dozen copies of the unexpurgated 299-page book had already been sent out to potential reviewers, and some copies found their way to online booksellers. The New York Times was able to buy a copy online late last week.

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In a brief telephone interview this week before Army superiors asked him not to comment further, Colonel Shaffer said he did not think it contained damaging disclosures. “I worked very closely with the Army to make sure there was nothing that would harm national security,” he said.

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“Their clumsy efforts to suppress the book only made it a bestseller,” Mr. Wise said.
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the brass at the pentagon think they have to right to run the country. snake cheney helped to make them think that way.

there are enough neo con brass still at the pentagon to keep giving Obama and his Team trouble.

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1. This is an interesting case

When you do that kind of work, anything you publish during that time or later has to be approved. You know that when you going in. Its sort of like buying a house where there is an HOA. The author followed the rules, received approval and it was later that concerns were raised.