Pentagon Plan: Buying Books to Keep Secrets

Pentagon Plan: Buying Books to Keep Secrets

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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.

Army reviewers suggested various changes and redactions and signed off on the edited book in January, saying they had “no objection on legal or operational security grounds,”

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But when the Defense Intelligence Agency saw the manuscript in July and showed it to other spy agencies, reviewers identified more than 200 passages suspected of containing classified information, setting off a scramble by Pentagon officials to stop the book’s distribution.

Now this should be a good read for sure.

The Pentagon is scrambling to buy the books and destroy them, but won't succeed.

10,000 Copies have already been distributed, and even if they were to destroy most of them, the information is already out.

This is like another Wikileaks incident. in the article they even stated Release of the book “could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to national security,” Lt. Gen. Ronald L. Burgess Jr., the D.I.A. director"

I'd like too get my hands on a copy and see what the fuss is all about.

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That's awesome. Someone needs to make it an e-Book so it can go viral.

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The book is sold out at just about every book site I visit. And I also noticed there is no price on it. I checked at Amazon.com - None in Stock - No price.

Make's me want this book more and more.
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Found one.
www.booksamillion.com...
$24.
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someone needs to buy it, I would but I don't even have 20 in my bank

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Let's hope someone here at ATS has a copy .

I gotta wait till tomorrow to purchase it. And then wait for it to arrive.

There is another thread on this..

Still. I really really want this book. I found a link where you can get it as an EBook (aka .pdf format)

Existing thread here:
www.abovetopsecret.com...

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