A former secretary of defense filed a lawsuit over the weekend alleging that the Pentagon is unlawfully blocking material from his pending memoir.
Mark Esper, who headed the Department of Defense for about 18 months during the Trump administration, says that the Pentagon is trying to censor unclassified information. He submitted a manuscript to the agency about six months ago. After multiple rounds of review by the department, he received back 60 pages on Oct. 7 with at least two words struck from them.
