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By not in system - AOL News(July 20) -- The Washington Post's groundbreaking investigation, "Top Secret America," already has national security writers questioning the nature of our post-Sept. 11 national security structure. The ongoing, multipart story today examines the breadth and depth of "National Security Inc.," the sprawling and secretive world of private, for-profit intelligence contracting. It warns that the tangled web of corporate spies and intelligence workers is incredibly inefficient, floods the intelligence system with so much analysis that the most valuable work gets lost, and produces such a tangled web ...
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By G.W. Schulz - Politics DailyThe Obama administration's recent surprise decision to suspend new work on a multibillion-dollar high-tech border control system -- the third attempted since 1997 -- raises further questions about the government's use of computer networks and sensors in an effort to seal the border with Mexico. As part of a broad illegal immigration crackdown called the Secure Border Initiative, a seamless "virtual fence" launched in 2005 was supposed to be up and running by last year. Among other things, the project known as SBInet called for a vast surveillance system along the 2,000-mile Southwestern ...
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