Pentagon Aims to Buy Up Book

[MountainLaurel]

Dealing with covert operations in Pakistan.

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.

"Operation Dark Heart," which was scheduled to be published this month by St. Martin's Press, recounts the adventures and frustrations of an Army reservist, Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer, who served in Afghanistan in 2003, a moment when the attention of Washington and the military had shifted to Iraq.

Shaffer, who is now a senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies in Washington, describes a number of planned covert operations, including an aborted cross-border surveillance operation using sophisticated eavesdropping technology that targeted high-level al-Qaeda operatives based in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

The operation was shut down by military officials concerned about offending Pakistan, according to Shaffer's account.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/09/AR2010090907747.html?hpid=topnews

[msongs]

1. someday we are gonna get rid of the GW Bush presidency but not yet evidently nt

[Octafish]

2. + 4,683*

* As of Aug. 2, 2010.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Won't that run up the deficit?

[RaleighNCDUer]

4. No problem. They buy it all up, the author makes his sales, and then

he releases it to the wilds of the web.

After 5 minutes in the ether it will be there forever, for anyone to see.

[ensho]

5. with our money they are doing this

nt

[jayfish]

6. A textbook example of government censorship. -NT-

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

7. DoD will give them to the teabaggers

ensuring they'll never be read.

[Swamp Rat]

8. k&r