Top Secret America

Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William M. Arkin spent two years investigating the government's response to 9/11.

Top Secret America explores what they found.

In the first of a multi-part series taking a look at the growth of the Intelligence establishment in the name of counter-terrorism after 9/11, The Washington Post reports there are now over 850,000 people with top secret clearances generating 50,000 reports a year.

Are we safer, or wasting time & money? How many spies are wise?




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