Former defense secretary Esper sues Pentagon, claiming portions of memoir are being improperly redacted

Former defense secretary Mark T. Esper is suing the Pentagon, claiming that Biden administration officials are preventing him from providing a “full and unvarnished” accounting of his tenure under President Donald Trump in a forthcoming memoir.

In a federal lawsuit filed Sunday, Esper said he submitted his memoir to the Defense Department for review and after six months found “my unclassified manuscript arbitrarily redacted without clearly being told why.”