On 2010-09-07, at 2:25 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 06:48 AM 9/6/2010, Marv Gandall wrote:
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>> "Some 30,000 people are now employed exclusively to listen in on phone conversations and other communications in the United States.
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> I'd like to know where that number came from.
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>From columnist Fareed Zakaria in the current Newsweek:
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/09/04/zakaria-why-america-overreacted-to-9-11.html,
basing himself on a series of articles "Top Secret America" last July by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin, which can be sourced here:
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/