Pentagon Plan: Buying Books to Keep Secrets
• NY TimesThe Defense Department was in negotiations with St. Martin's Press to buy and destroy the first edition of "Operation Dark Heart," by Anthony Shaffer, a lieutenant colonel in the army reserve and former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer.
Who will want to buy the second version of this book knowing it has been censored and redacted. The publisher should void the sale to the government and sell the book to the public. It might break sales records.