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The Expansion Of The National Security State

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Tags: 9/11 attacks, National Security State, Dana Priest, Top Secret America., IVAW

Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Last year our guest Dana Priest wrote in the Washington Post:

“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.”

She and her co-author William Arkin have expanded their origin...