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Pentagon Aims To Buy Up Book

Posted by samzenpus on from the sorry-we're-all-out dept.

jamie writes "Operation Dark Heart, a book about the adventures and frustrations of an Army officer who served in Afghanistan, has ruffled some feathers at the Pentagon. From the article: 'The Defense Department is attempting to buy the entire first printing — 10,000 copies — of a memoir by a controversial former Defense Intelligence Agency officer so that the book can be destroyed, according to military and other sources."

2 of 347 comments (clear)

  1. Feudal America by ductonius · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What America's aristocracy cannot do with the law they will do with money.

  2. Re:Is this really censorship? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    As a typical illiterate American, he probably wouldn't have been able to read the book in the first place, even if he had it in his possession and was looking at the pages.