After 9/11, the United States government embarked on an unprecedented
effort to protect America. The result has been calamitous: after ten
years of unparalleled spending and growth, the result is that a system
put in place to keep America safe may in fact be putting us in even
greater danger-but we don't know because it's all Top Secret.
In TOP SECRET AMERICA, award-winning journalists Dana Priest and William M.
Arkin lift the curtain on this clandestine universe. From the companies
and agencies keeping track of American citizens and the military
commanders building America's first "top secret city" to a hidden army
within the U.S. military more secret than the CIA, this new national
security octopus has become a self-sustaining "Fourth Branch" of
government. A tour de force of investigative journalism, TOP SECRET
AMERICA presents a fascinating and disturbing account of government run
amok and a war on terrorism gone wrong in a post-9/11.
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effort to protect America. The result has been calamitous: after ten
years of unparalleled spending and growth, the result is that a system
put in place to keep America safe may in fact be putting us in even
greater danger-but we don't know because it's all Top Secret.
In TOP SECRET AMERICA, award-winning journalists Dana Priest and William M.
Arkin lift the curtain on this clandestine universe. From the companies
and agencies keeping track of American citizens and the military
commanders building America's first "top secret city" to a hidden army
within the U.S. military more secret than the CIA, this new national
security octopus has become a self-sustaining "Fourth Branch" of
government. A tour de force of investigative journalism, TOP SECRET
AMERICA presents a fascinating and disturbing account of government run
amok and a war on terrorism gone wrong in a post-9/11.
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