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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."

7 of 347 comments (clear)

  1. We finally have the missing step by Yvan256 · · Score: 4, Funny

    1. write a book about a subject
    2. the subject must be something that someone or some organization wants to cover up
    3. the said someone or organization buys all your copies in order to cover up the subject
    4. profit!

  2. Re:YOUR tax dollars is paying for it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey! We're down to one unwinnable war, and one unwinnable non-combat presence...

  3. Re:Kindle Version by danwesnor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't the Pentagon just buy up all the Kindles and burn them?

  4. Re:Founding Fathers do facepalm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What are you doing posting such a sensible, truthful response on /.?

  5. Re:Founding Fathers do facepalm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you mean harassing young swedish women, don't you?

  6. Re:Is this really censorship? by siddesu · · Score: 2, Funny

    Considering how easy it was to leak several years of electronic communications, maybe you're doing it already ;)

  7. Re:YOUR tax dollars is paying for it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If you don't like it, go somewhere else.