Midknight Review -- new and revised: September 20 saw our first book burning by an US President.

'Operation Dark Heart' describes Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer's time in Afghanistan leading a black-ops team.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

The Department of Defense says the memoir contained state secrets
The book's author calls the destruction "ludicrous"
A second printing of the book incorporates redactions requested by the Pentagon

Washington (CNN)By Chris Lawrence and Padma Rama -- 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 . READ THE FULL ARTICLE >>>>>

Editor's notes: Midknight Review was among the first blogs on the internet to report this blatant assault on free speech nearly two weeks ago. We saw Col Shaffer appearance on FoxNews, happy to discuss his book, Operation Dark Heart. In that same afternoon, after the initial announcement that there would be a book burning of Operation Dark Heart by order of the Administration, Col Shaffer made an appearance on Fox but refused to discuss the book, saying only that he was still a member of the US military.

In the morning interview, Col. Shaffer told the listening audience that the book had been fully vetted for top secret information. Of course it was. We all know that without anyone making a statement to that fact. Nothing is written by an active member of the US military without clearance.

But the Obama spinmeisters had not cleared the book for embarrassing information and Shaffer is speaking out. In the CNN article, we have this statement from Col. Shaffer: "The whole premise smacks of retaliation. Someone buying 10,000 books to suppress a story in this digital age is ludicrous."

Point of post: we - Midknight Review - tried to tell you that this stranger in our White House does not believe in free speech.

See our Sept. 10 news breaking story: Midknight Review: Obama's first book confiscation: Operation Dark ...

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

September 20 saw our first book burning by an US President.

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