Former secretary of Defense Mark T. Esper’s memoir A Sacred Oath, about his experience working under the Trump administration, will be published by William Morrow in May with “minimal redactions,” after the Department of Defense reversed its decision to block sections that contained information they claimed was classified. Esper sued the DOD in November, claiming the agency redacted “multiple words, sentences, and paragraphs from approximately sixty pages” with “no written explanation” to justify the deletions. Following the Pentagon’s announcement that it had reversed its decision, Esper dropped the lawsuit. Esper’s lawyer, Mark S. Zaid, said in a statement, “The prepublication […]
