News: Washington Post launches New Series on "Top Secret America"

For those who haven't already read about it on the LIFT, the Washington Post began a new series of reports and features this week highlighting the ballooning national security and intelligence apparatus in the US since Sept. 11. The main page of the project is accessible here.

One figure that stuck out for me was the claim that "[a]n estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances." (Found in this article)

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