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Dana Priest and Waiiliam M. Arkin 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. The investigation’s other findings include: Read entire article See Also: America’s secret army: how the ‘war on terror’ created a new industry Ed Pilkington In the cloak and dagger world of intelligence, the assumption fed by countless spy novels and TV dramas is that top-secret security clearance is restricted to an elite few known only by codes such as M and C. Not so in today’s America. A new survey of the intelligence network created in the wake of the 9/11 attacks estimates that some 854,000 people have been given high-level clearance, making James Bond look decidedly everyday. The estimate comes from the Washington Post which has dedicated a team of reporters to a two-year project on what it calls “Top Secret America” In addition to the army of individuals, it has identified some 1,271 government bodies and 1,931 private contractors working on counter-terrorism. The creation of this extraordinary spider’s-web of intrigue can be dated back to 16 September 2001, a week after the attacks, when George Bush announced from Camp David the launch of what he called a “war on terror”. The war would take a while, he warned, and the American people would have to be patient, but he was determined. Max Keiser: NSA, CIA and Secret America Infowars.com Alex and Max talk about the “fourth branch of government,” the top secret government dominated by corporations.
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