denials of your work. the big picture was not atta. not so much the chart. the fact is this. we had a pre9/11 department of defense operation focussed on taking action against al-qaeda globally. this morning the defense department sent us an e-mail standing by the 2006 investigation. still calling the witness account of danger inaccurate. last month at a cost to the taxpayer $46,000, the defense department bought and destroyed the entire first run 9,500 copies of schaefer s book operation dark heart that included a chapter on able danger. shepard: with the fox news investigation, catherine herridge. good of you. thank you very much. member of north carolina emergency response team now report a badly flooded city in the northeastern part of the state is likely to stay that way for quite some time. the remnants of tropical storm nicole hit windsor last week.
edition because the first run has been destroyed, you can see the blacked out passages that the pentagon has now ordered the publisher to work off of. they destroyed about 10,000 copies of this book at military orders, saying that the classified information could not be published. some of it perhaps very sensitive, some of it fairly innocuous such as the name of the cia training facility in virginia, that s something you can look up for yourself right on the internet. here s a little bit more of what lieutenant colonel schaeffer had to say about the government action against his memoir. there are some things that the army felt they did not want in it. i took them out. there was no argument. if they felt it was sensitive or couldn t be referenced it s out. that process was completed by january of this year. and from there after i received written permission, the written documents went to the publisher and we moved forward. so, if he got written
the pentagon says it destroyed 9,500 copies of a new book in the name of national security. defense officials say the first version of operation dark heart by lieutenant colonel anthony schaeffer contained classified information, including names of american intelligence officers. that s according to the new york times, but the author who serves in the army reserves says his book was fully vetted before printing. it s his memoir about his time leading a covert operation in afghanistan. we did go through a very lengthy review process, and that process included interviews by a researcher to make sure that we had information from original sources as well as research from public sources which put it all together into the thing, and keep in mind, don, this is not simply a memoir.
the pentagon correspondent barbara starr is following the story for us. what s going on, barbara? we have a best seller on our hands now. but it is a best seller that the pentagon still really doesn t want you to read. extreme measures to keep secrets secret. a pentagon recently bought nearly 10,000 copies of this book, operation dark heart, an account of spying and special operations in afghanistan by army intelligence officer lieutenant colonel anthony schaffer. and then, the government had them ground to a pulp. a pentagon spokeswoman said the book contained information which could cause damage to national security. the author disagrees. there are some things that the author didn t want in, i took them out. if they felt it was sensitive and couldn t be referenced properly, it s out. it s officially a landmark in the history of publishing and in the history of government
permission how did all of this happen? how did it get to the point of the obama administration basically ordering the destruction of 10,000 copies of a book? well, by all accounts it did not get authorized at the higher military intelligence levels of the pentagon. once those folks saw it they got concerned and said indeed there was classified information in it and they had to cut up and destroy the initial run of this book. kyra. so worries in original copy of the book could surface? yeah, i think there is, as you said there is big worries about that. this is the internet age, you know. things go up in cyberspace and there s really no such thing as permanent destruction of knowledge. so, there s a lot of concern that there still are copies floating around out there. barbara starr, thanks. taking control of your health. elizabeth cohen is going to introduce us to parent who is trusted their gut and saved their daughter s life. i want to give my 5 employees health insurance,