Top Secret America
On July 19, 2010, The Washington Post began to publish a multi-part series entitled "Top Secret America", a collaborative effort between Arkin and Dana Priest. The articles, which took almost two years to complete, report that the post-9/11 U.S. intelligence system has grown so large that no one can know its size or estimate its effectiveness.
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