[lbo-talk] WaPo: A hidden world, growing beyond control

[Joseph Catron]

"The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist
attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive
that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how
many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.

"These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The
Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of
the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking
in thorough oversight. After nine years of unprecedented spending and
growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States
safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine."

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/articles/a-hidden-world-growing-beyond-control/

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