Operation Dark Heart

The Obama Administration's Desire to Keep Citizens in the Dark is Inexcusable

Matt Kane | Posted 05.25.2011

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Matt Kane

While many outlets are reporting that the Pentagon burned the books, begging for comparisons to Nazi Germany, official reports say that the books were "destroyed."

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Marcus Baram

How The Pentagon Censors Books: Before And After Versions Of A Soldier's Memoir

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 05.25.2011

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This story has been updated Is actor Ned Beatty's name a national security secret? That's one of the questions raised by a side-by-side comparison o...

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Operation Dark Heart 'Pulped': Military Officials Watched Publisher Destroy 9,500 Books

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Defense Department says it has paid $47,000 to destroy 9,500 copies of a former Army intelligence officer's war memoir that the...

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Secrets in Plain Sight in Censored Book’s Reprint

nytimes.com | SCOTT SHANE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency, headquarters for the government's eavesdroppers and code breakers, has been located at Fort Meade, Md., fo...

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Secrecy and Censorship: Book Burning in the Era of E-Books

Frederick Reuss | Posted 05.25.2011

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Frederick Reuss

It's an odd form of censorship being practiced by the Pentagon these days. That 10,000 copies of Anthony Schaffer's book are sitting in a warehouse in Virginia awaiting incineration seems almost quaint.

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Pentagon Mission

Washington Post | Peter Finn and Greg Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Defense Department is attempting to buy the entire first printing - 10,000 copies - of a memoir by a controversial former Defense Intelligence Age...

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