“The CIA is squelching publication of a new book detailing events leading up to Osama bin Laden‘s escape from his Tora Bora mountain stronghold during the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, says a former CIA officer who led much of the fighting,” reports an Associated Press wire story. The AP’s Katherine Shrader reports that in a Federal lawsuit, Gary Bernsten says that “the CIA is over-classifying his manuscript and has repeatedly missed deadlines written into its own regulations to review his book.” Bernsten says the book, Jawbreaker, “recounts the attacks he coordinated at the peak of the fighting in eastern Afghanistan in late 2001, including how U.S. commanders knew bin Laden was in the rugged mountains near the Pakistani border” but yet failed to capture. It’s a story strikingly similar to allegations made by then -presidential candidate John Kerry that “the United States had missed an opportunity to capture or kill bin Laden because they had ‘outsourced’ the fighting to Afghan warlords.” But Bernsten, a “Republican and avid Bush supporter,” says “the debate and discussions on Tora Bora were — from both sides — completely incorrect,” but he would not reveal anything further. Bernsten hopes to publish the book in October, although the CIA has already “more than twice the 30 days allowed by regulation” to review his book.