Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State

Dana Priest, William M. Arkin

Language: English

Pages: 368

ISBN: 0316182206

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


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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giving rise to a certain irony by mid-2011, when the Arab Spring forced him into exile, in part because of his corrupt ways. Saleh used the campaign without attribution to its U.S. authors before the elections, though the messages did not overtly ask citizens for their vote; that kind of political campaigning could only be carried out by the CIA, because secretly influencing the politics of another country is considered a covert action. Besides deepening the secret relationship with Yemen, Obama

World Trade Center towers). “He started talking about being in a food fight with another office over a UBL (for Usama bin Laden, the common abbreviation) investigation, and I didn’t have a clue who he was talking about.” The problem, Rolince discovered, was that the bureau didn’t educate its field agents about terrorism unless they were working a case specifically related to it. Or consider Russel Honoré’s red bag. Every few days a locked red canvas bag would be hand-carried by a squared-away

information. The mapping of the homeland fell principally to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), one of the largest three-letter Washington-based members of the intelligence community. Now responding to the needs of two new organizations—NorthCom on the military side and the Department of Homeland Security on the civilian side—NGA, with the assistance of the U.S. Geological Survey, began to apply to the United States the mapping matrix it used for battles overseas. The Homeland

money the government is willing to pay for them is so huge, that fifty-six firms compete for this business. Each of the sixteen intelligence agencies depends on corporations to set up its computer networks, communicate with other agencies’ networks, and fuse and mine disparate bits of information that might be indicative of a terrorist plot. More than four hundred companies work exclusively in this area, building classified hardware and software systems. “We could not perform our mission

guarded base. Once inside, a Red Badge visitor—meaning someone who has not been cleared—is announced to all by flashing lights overhead. In his various trips into and out of the ISRD, Arkin couldn’t help but notice that right down the hall from the strategy section was the STO—the Special Technical Operations division—a secure room within a secure room, where the space and information warfare specialists toiled. A similar cipher-locked and segregated secure room was located at the rear of the

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