A hidden world, growing beyond control
(Multimedia) 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. Full Story »
Posted by Jon Mitchell - via Nicholas Kristof, Columbia Journalism Review, Memeorandum, Slatest, Fabrice Florin (t), Kaizar Campwala (t), Fabrice Florin (f), Kaizar Campwala (f), Shams Kazi (f), Fred Sampson (f), Ish Harshawat (f), avivao (f)
Snouts are in the trough, and this problem has grown many times over since "9/11" gave such a welcome pretext for defrauding the US taxpayers.