What if you found out that one of your ex-friends was writing a tell-all book about all your secrets? Would you start a damage control campaign, getting your side of the story out to the press? Would you beg and plead with them to reconsider? Would you hire lawyers? These are the sorts of tactics open to poor individuals, but what if the "you" here was the Defense Intelligence Agency, the shadowy spy shop beloved by Rumsfeld and Cheney because the CIA wasn't evil enough for them, and your "ex-friend" was an officer in your ranks who said that probably you knew about Mohammed Atta's plotting before 9/11? You'd probably launch a shadowy disinformation campaign to discredit him, or maybe have him killed in a suspicious-looking "accident." Or -- and here's where it gets really clever -- you'd whine about his mean secret-leaking ways, and then offer to pay good money to buy up copies of the book, after all the secrety secrets have leaked out!
What a smart move. That way no one will ever be able to get their hands on a copy..or a PDF or Word Document or whatever e-version these things live in..and, you know, post the fun parts on the Internet. And if that happens, the DIA can just buy the Internet. Problem solved.
If you have a DI-Kindle, you're in luck. Would it not be hysterical if the DIA bought all the physical books but didn't think to suppress Kindle releases?
What a smart move. That way no one will ever be able to get their hands on a copy..or a PDF or Word Document or whatever e-version these things live in..and, you know, post the fun parts on the Internet. And if that happens, the DIA can just buy the Internet. Problem solved.
If you have a DI-Kindle, you're in luck. Would it not be hysterical if the DIA bought all the physical books but didn't think to suppress Kindle releases?
Me too. Then the DIA will buy it (the Krap-indle) from me -- suckers!