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Washington Post Investigation: "Top Secret America" By Dana Priest and William Arkin

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Washington Post Investigation: "Top Secret America" By Dana Priest and William Arkin Washington Post December 20, 2010 Nine years after the terrorist attacks of 2001, the United States is assembling a vast domestic intelligence apparatus to collect information about Americans, using the FBI, local police, state homeland security offices and military criminal investigators. The system, by far the largest and most technologically sophisticated in the nation's history, collects, stores and analyzes information about thousands of U.S. citizens and residents, many of whom have not been accused of any wrongdoing. The government's goal is to have every state and local law enforcement agency in the country feed information to Washington to buttress the work of the FBI, which is in charge of terrorism investigations in the United States...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).