Former Secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper sued the Department of Defense in a Washington, DC District Court for “improperly” blocking parts of his memoir, A Sacred Oath, an account of his time working for President Trump. William Morrow has the book scheduled for publication on May 10, 2022. Esper is the latest in a line of former DOD officials — including retired General Stanley McChrystal and retired Navy Commander Guy Snodgrass — to claim that his pre-publication review was taking an unusually long time,. “He stayed in regular contact to ensure a timely review was occurring and requested specific deadlines for the […]
