Defense Dept officials are negotiating to buy & destroy10,000 copies of Afghan War Memoir

[kpete]

Pentagon Plan: Buying Books to Keep Secrets
By SCOTT SHANE
Published: September 9, 2010

WASHINGTON — 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.

Anthony A. Shaffer, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, wrote “Operation Dark Heart.”

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.

Disputes between the government and former intelligence officials over whether their books reveal too much have become commonplace. But veterans of the publishing industry and intelligence agencies could not recall another case in which an agency sought to dispose of a book that had already been printed.

more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/us/10books.html?_r=2&scp=1&sq=pentagon%20plan%20Buying%20books%20to%20keep%20secrets&st=cse

[Swamp Rat]

1. k&r

[BanzaiBonnie]

2. Burn it...

It's likely not so much security secrets as things they don't want the American people to learn.

[riderinthestorm]

3. What. the. fuck??!!

The US government goes ape shit that someone's going to burn a Quran.

The US government decides to burn 10,000 copies of this guy's memoir so the US public can't read it (and the guy can't make a profit - in theory - since nobody knows if this book would have gone on into even greater publication...).



(trying to wrap my brain around the disconnect...) :crazy:

[spanone]

4. using our money to destroy evidence of what our money buys.....

god forbid we know what goes on in our names