One of the stranger cases of government censorship is back in the news, as Army Reserve Lt. Colonel Anthony Shaffer has been granted standing to sue the Defense Intelligence Agency in an effort to publish an unredacted version of his 2010 book OPERATION DARK HEART. The judge correctly recognized that Shaffer did not sell all of his rights to his publisher (as the government argued), he licensed a limited basket of rights: “Mr. Shaffer wrote and wants to publish his complete book as originally approved by the Army. There is no doubt that the Defendant Agencies are preventing him from […]
