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.
These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to 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 and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine….
The Washington Post conducted a two-year investigation, and this is the best it could come up with? This website is hilarious. [blockquote]Newsflash! The Washington Post can now reveal in this exclusive report that Boeing Corporation builds several kinds of Top Secret devices at several different locations for several Government agencies![/blockquote] Are you kidding me? Someone should call Deep Throat. They obviously need an inside source.
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Arkin is a someone very interesting to Google. He has a reputation as a very ideological Leftist given to hit pieces of high rhetoric and skimpy reality.