Operation Dark Heart
by Anthony Shaffer · first published 2010
13% recommend88% neutral
Shaffer delivers an exciting, eyewitness account of fighting terrorism in Afghanistan using the military's most cutting-edge espionage tactics. Just before St. Martin's Press release of the book, The Department of Defense and the Defense Intelligence Agency, demanded the author and the publisher produce the book for review. They, and "other interested U.S. intelligence agencies" met with the author to review changes and redactions that they required be made, before the book could be published, in order to "not damage our national security, harm our troops, or harm U.S. military intelligence ef
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- Decent Interval - Frank Snepp - About Saigon's fall by a CIA analyst - Inside China's Nuclear Weapons Program - Danny Stillman - Operation Dark Heart - Anthony Shaffer - Afghanistan. "The Pentagon" bought and destroyed the whole first printing - The Targeter - Nada Bakos - About fighting ISIS The last guy's alluding to right wing books though. I remember…
on “Home Libraries Will Save Civilization” ↗https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Shaffer_(intelligence_... >Shaffer published memoirs of his time as a reports officer in Afghanistan in book titled Operation Dark Heart. Shaffer claims that the Defense Department attempted to preserve secrecy of revelations made by the book, by buying up and destroying all 10,000 copies of the book's first, uncensored run, before allowing…
on “United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden” ↗…book was available--Amazon had a few copies which sold out and doing a quick Google search showed a few other websites with it available. Edit: apparently Amazon has some in stock: http://www.amazon.com/Operation-Dark-Heart-Frontlines-Afghan... And here's another: http://www.booksamillion.com/product/9780312603694
on “Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army officer's memoir” ↗How is this questionable reading material? The book got through the CIA's publication review board and there was no funny business like there was with Operation Dark Heart. Today is the only day of the year that I watch sports (Go Cuse!) so I'm going to try my hardest to ignore that giant leap from >15 days in solitary is torture to everyone in solitary is being treated…
on “This Is What Winning Looks Like – Afghanistan War Diary” ↗…actually banned content in it, right? Especially copyright violations. They could include a PDF of some Linux source code but with MIT license. Edit: per the other comment's Wikipedia link, the unredacted Operation Dark Heart seems banned in the US because it included classified info
on “Banned Book Library in a Wi-Fi Smart Light Bulb” ↗…as all having conservative, limited views? A check of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_book-burning_incidents says "On September 20, 2010 the Pentagon bought[271] and burned[272] 9,500 copies of Operation Dark Heart, nearly all the first run copies for supposedly containing classified information." - I don't think you can easily categorize that as conservative or liberal. The same list says "During the Libyan Civil…
on “J.K. Rowling Book Burning Videos Are Spreading Like Wildfire Across TikTok” ↗…a net negative. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_govern... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_govern... The US list one (1) banned book in a earlier version (Operation Dark Heart) because of national security. >The first, uncensored printing of 9,500 copies was purchased for $47,300 in early September and destroyed by the publisher at the request of the Pentagon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Dark_Heart
on “US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere” ↗…Amendment protects sales of the book, as the court found that the information it contains is fraudulent, as it advertised that it would teach buyers how to legally cease paying federal income taxes." 1 (Operation Dark Heart) was seized by the Department of Defense "citing concerns that it contained classified information which could damage national security." So the prime examples here are a book from 375 years ago (126…
on “Librarians are dangerous” ↗