Pentagon Burns Books And Then Tells You Why They Burned Them

[unhappycamper]

:wtf:

unhappycamper note: Since the ‘Pentagon’ (Righthaven LLC?) has ‘requested’ that I only post one paragraph from articles on Army Times, and Airforce Times, I’ve decided to give ya’ll an unhappycamper summary of the article and a link to the OP. To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.To keep in that same (new) tradition, I will also do the same for for articles on Navy Times, Marine Corps Times, stripes.com and military.com.

To read the article in the military's own words, you will need to click the link.

Read all about Fair Use here. It sure is beginning to smell like fascism.

unhappycamper summary of this article: Read the article at the link to see what the Pentagon censored.






‘Operation Dark Heart’
Censoring drew attention to book


Censored book masks sensitive operations
By Sean D. Naylor - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Oct 5, 2010 5:56:44 EDT

The upshot was that the Pentagon paid $47,300 in taxpayer money for the 9,500 books that constituted almost the entire first print run of the book and had the volumes destroyed Sept. 20, while the publisher, Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin’s Press, issued a second edition Sept. 24 with roughly 200 words or passages blacked out.

[PoliticAverse]

1. "Streisand Effect"

"Second, because St. Martin’s had sent what Rinaldi estimated at “60 to 70, at most” advance copies of the first edition to news organizations, including Army Times, journalists and others can compare the original and censored versions."

So they were too late in closing the barn door and all this did was bring a lot of publicity to things they say they didn't want to become known.