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L’ARMEE AMERICAINE BRULE 10 000 EXEMPLAIRES D’UN LIVRE ! (vidéo 2’)

mercredi 15 décembre 2010, par anonyme (Date de rédaction antérieure : 15 décembre 2010).

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(Envoyé par Vic Flame)

LE DEPARTEMENT DE LA DEFENSE AMERICAIN A ACHETE PUIS MIS LE FEU A UNE DIZAINE DE MILLIERS D’EXEMPLAIRES D’UN LIVRE ECRIT PAR UN MILITAIRE DE RESERVE, rapporte CNN. L’armée affirme avoir mis au bûcher Operation Dark Heart (« Opération Coeur Sombre »), les mémoires du Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer, parce que le livre « contenait des informations qui pourraient mettre en danger la SECURITE NATIONALE ».

Dans ses mémoires, Anthony Shaffer raconte son passage en Afghanistan, quand il dirigeait une équipe d’opérations secrètes sous l’administration Bush.

9.500 exemplaires du livre ont ainsi été incendiés le lundi 20 septembre, tandis que la maison d’édition a sorti en deuxième impression de nouveaux exemplaires en tenant compte des demandes du gouvernement : certains mots, noms, voire paragraphes, ont été barrés de noir dans cette nouvelle version car il s’agirait d’informations « classifiées » selon l’armée. Une des premières lignes du livre est ainsi désormais : « Me voilà en Afghanistan (censuré). Mon boulot : gérer les opérations de l’Agence du renseignement pour la défense à (censuré), le centre des opérations américaines du pays. »

L’auteur du livre a effectué ces modifications tout en regrettant la mise à feu des premiers manuscrits : « TOUT CE PROCEDE SENT LES REPRESAILLES. Quelqu’un qui achète 10.000 livres pour étouffer une affaire dans cette ère numérique est grotesque. »

D’ailleurs on trouve un exemplaire du livre non censuré en vente sur eBay (cf. http://cgi.ebay.com/Operation-Dark-… ) pour 1.995,95$ (1.484,74 euros). Plus dangereux pour le Département de la défense, WIKILEAKS, l’organisation qui a mis en ligne plus de 91.000 documents militaires sur la guerre en Afghanistan fin juillet, AFFIRME S’ETRE EGALEMENT PROCURE UN EXEMPLAIRE DE CETTE PREMIERE VERSION (cf. http://twitter.com/wikileaks/status… ), dans un tweet qui lit « BRULEZ TOUS LES LIVRES QUE VOUS VOULEZ, PUNKS NAZIS. ON A DEJA UN EXEMPLAIRE. »

Le département de la Défense estime que le manuscrit parlait d’activités secrètes des opérations spéciales américaines, de la CIA et de l’agence nationale de sécurité. Pourtant, l’avocat de Shaffer soutient que LES SUPERIEURS DE L’AUTEUR ONT LU LE LIVRE AVANT SA PUBLICATION ET LUI ONT DONNE LEUR FEU VERT.

Pour le Pentagone, Shaffer n’a pas demandé d’autorisation aux bonnes personnes :

« Il a bien obtenu l’accord de l’Armée en Réserve, mais pas de l’Armée dans sa totalité ni du département de la Défense, donc il n’a pas rempli les conditions des régulations du département de la Défense en termes de sécurité. »

Le département de la Défense a dit être en train de rembourser la maison d’édition pour les coûts de la première impression et n’avoir pas acheté d’exemplaires de la version réécrite. Quant à Anthony Shaffer, il n’oublie pas l’action de l’armée sur cette nouvelle version, comme le montre la rubrique « Détails sur le produit » de son livre sur Amazon.fr :

« Bien que je ne sois pas d’accord avec les corrections, les CENSURES DU DEPARTEMENT DE LA DEFENSE augmentent la compréhension du lecteur en attirant son attention sur les résultats défectueux que crée une bureaucratie du renseignement militaire désorganisée et qui a la main lourde. »


"Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings." (« Là où ils ont brûlé des livres, ils finiront par brûler des êtres humains »). Heinrich Heine


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Les Nazis aussi avaient censuré et brûlé des livres…


Pentagon destroys thousands of copies of Army officer’s memoir

http://us.cnn.com/2010/US/09/25/boo…

By Chris Lawrence and Padma Rama, CNN

September 28, 2010 10:07 a.m. EDT

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Washington (CNN) — The Department of Defense recently purchased and destroyed thousands of copies of an Army Reserve officer’s memoir in an effort to safeguard state secrets, a spokeswoman said Saturday.

"DoD decided to purchase copies of the first printing because they contained information which could cause damage to national security," Pentagon spokeswoman Lt. Col. April Cunningham said.

In a statement to CNN, Cunningham said defense officials observed the September 20 destruction of about 9,500 copies of Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s new memoir "Operation Dark Heart."

Shaffer says he was notified Friday about the Pentagon’s purchase.

"The whole premise smacks of retaliation," Shaffer told CNN on Saturday. "Someone buying 10,000 books to suppress a story in this digital age is ludicrous."

Shaffer’s publisher, St. Martin’s Press, released a second printing of the book that it said had incorporated some changes the government had sought "while redacting other text he (Shaffer) was told was classified."

From single words and names to entire paragraphs, blacked out lines appear throughout the book’s 299 pages.

CNN obtained a memo from the Defense Intelligence Agency dated August 6 in which Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess claims the DIA tried for nearly two months to get a copy of the manuscript. Burgess said the DIA’s investigation "identified significant classified information, the release of which I have determined could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to national security."

Burgess said the manuscript contained secret activities of the U.S. Special Operations Command, CIA and National Security Agency.

Shaffer’s lawyer, Mark Zaid, said earlier this month that the book was reviewed by Shaffer’s military superiors prior to publication.

"There was a green light from the Army Reserve Command," Zaid told CNN.

But intelligence agencies apparently raised objections when they received copies of the book.

The Pentagon contacted St. Martin’s Press in early August to convey its concerns over the release of the book. According to the publisher, at that time the first printings were just about to be shipped from its warehouse. Shaffer said he and the publisher worked hard "to make sure nothing in the book would be detrimental to national security."

"When you look at what they took out (in the 2nd edition), it’s lunacy," Shaffer said.

The Pentagon says Shaffer should have sought wider clearance for the memoir.

"He did clear it with Army Reserve but not with the larger Army and with Department of Defense," Department of Defense spokesman Col. David Lapan said earlier this month. "So he did not meet the requirements under Department of Defense regulations for security review."

One of the book’s first lines reads, "Here I was in Afghanistan (redaction) My job : to run the Defense Intelligence Agency’s operations out of (redaction) the hub for U.S. operations in country."

In chapter 15, titled "Tipping Point," 21 lines within the first two pages are blacked out.

In the memoir, Shaffer recalls his time in Afghanistan leading a black-ops team during the Bush administration. The Bronze Star medal recipient told CNN he believes the Bush administraton’s biggest mistake during that time was misunderstanding the culture there.

Defense officials said they are in the process of reimbursing the publisher for the cost of the first printing and have not purchased copies of the redacted version.

At least one seller on the online auction site eBay claiming to have a first-edition printing is selling it for an asking price of nearly $2,000. The listed retail price for the second printing is $25.99.

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  • Synopsis :

    http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Boo…

    Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Shaffer had run intelligence operations for years before he arrived in Afghanistan. He was part of the “dark side of the force”---the shadowy elements of the U.S. government that function outside the bounds of the normal system. His group called themselves the Jedi Knights and pledged to use the dark arts of espionage to protect the country from its enemies.

    Shaffer’s mission to Afghanistan, however, was unlike any he had ever experienced before.

    There, he led a black-ops team on the forefront of the military efforts to block the Taliban’s resurgence. They not only planned complex intelligence operations to beat back the insurgents, but also played a key role in executing those operations---outside the wire. They succeeded in striking at the core of the Taliban and their safe havens across the border in Pakistan. For a moment Shaffer saw us winning the war.

    Then the military brass got involved. The policies that top officials relied on were hopelessly flawed. Shaffer and his team were forced to sit and watch as the insurgency grew---just across the border in Pakistan.

    This wasn’t the first time he had seen bureaucracy stand in the way of national security. He had participated in Able Danger, the aborted intelligence operation that identified many of the future 9/11 terrorists but failed to pursue them. His attempt to reveal the truth to the 9/11 Commission would not go over well with his higher-ups.

    Operation Dark Heart tells the story of what really went on—and what went wrong—in Afghanistan. Shaffer witnessed firsthand the tipping point, when what seemed like certain victory turned into failure. Now, in this book, he maps out a way that could put us on the path to winning the war.

    “Anthony Shaffer has written a gripping account, filled with amazing detail, of an otherwise secret world. Shaffer has the instincts of a thriller writer and the knowledge and perspective of the professional insider. Operation Dark Heart is a fascinating page-turner.”

    — Doug Stanton, author of Horse Soldiers

    “A fascinating look into the highly complex world of modern combat, clandestine intelligence and bureaucrats run amok. Tony Shaffer walks and runs us through a critical time in the history in the war in Afghanistan. From the opening to the closing, you are on the edge of your seat. Tony is, in all aspects, the real Jack Bauer - but with an intellect.”

    — Dr. Christopher M. Lehman, former Special Assistant to President Reagan, National Security Counsel

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