Previous DIA officer burns Pentagon with tell-all book

Censorship has backfired on the censors yet again within the case of “Operation Dark Heart”. In this instance, it is the Pentagon giving the book a boost. ”Operation Dark Heart,” as outlined by the DOD, contains passages written by a previous intelligence officer that could possibly be used by America’s enemies to undermine U.S. interests. Cash is no object to the Pentagon, which is preparing to write a check for the initial run of the publication so it can reduce each and every pallet load to ashes. Source for this article – Pentagon to purchase Operation Dark Heart first print for book burning by Personal Money Store.

Government pulls Operation Dark Heart

“Operation Dark Heart” is by Anthony A. Shaffer, a previous Defense Intelligence Agency officer and presently a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve. The book is Shaffer’s personal account of five months he spent as a DIA officer stationed at Bagram Air Base outside of Kabul in 2003. The New York Times reports that Army reviewers approved “Operation Dark Heart” in January. The publisher, St. Martin’s Press, prepared to release the publication Aug. 31. Nevertheless, “Operation Dark Heart” did not cross a DIA desk until July. Only then was it determined that classified data was revealed in its pages. By then, various dozen copies of the book had already been sent out to reviewers and online booksellers.

The book’s content questioned

Some of the allegedly classified information in “Operation Dark Heart” concerns a pre-9/11 operation called “Able Danger,” which Shaffer claims identified hijacker Mohammed Atta as a threat before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. According to Fox News, the DIA wants passages removed where Shaffer alleges he told the 9/11 Commission that Able Danger knew about Atta as early as 2000. Atta was considered to be the ringleader of the 9/11 hijackers. He was at the controls of, American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed to the World Trade Center. Shaffer’s story lacked conclusive evidence, as outlined by a Defense Department report written as the official response.

Censorship always backfires on the censors

The Pentagon and St. Martin’s press are working things out. Censorship plan on paying the publisher for the entire first run of the book. The Washington Post reports the Pentagon’s plan is to destroy all 10,000 copies. A second printing, without passages disputed by the DIA, is being prepared by St. Martin’s press. The first printing is sitting on pallets in a Virginia warehouse. The Amazon bestseller list has “Operation Dark Heart” at #19. For whoever has wondered why it is listed as “temporarily out of stock,” now you know.

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