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Published: 07/20/10

The Case for Intelligence Contractors

By  not in system - AOL News
The Case for Intelligence Contractors

(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 ...

Published: 07/19/10

Opinion Roundup: More Intelligence, Less Safety

By  not in system - AOL News
Opinion Roundup: More Intelligence, Less Safety

(July 19) -- Dana Priest and William Arkin's Washington Post expose of the fast-growing intelligence community in their first installment of "Top Secret America" has plenty of people talking. Making Us Less Safe What's most noteworthy about all of this is that the objective endlessly invoked for why we must acquiesce to all of this -- National Security -- is not only unfulfilled by "Top Secret America," but actively subverted by it. ... The article details how ample information regarding alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and attempted Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab was collected ...

Published: 07/19/10

'Top Secret America': Washington Post Unmasks Unwieldy Security Behemoth

By  David Sessions - Politics Daily
'Top Secret America': Washington Post Unmasks Unwieldy Security Behemoth

The Washington Post unveiled the first installment of a two-year investigation on its front page Monday, detailing the "top secret" intelligence world that ballooned after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Reporters Dana Priest, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and William Arkin write that they found "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," the intelligence community has become a sector of government so massive that oversight is next to impossible and that it is of ...

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