2010-07-21

Top Secret America

The Washington Post has a very interesting feature this week called Top Secret America.  It appears a few of their reporters spent a couple years investigating the government's response to 9/11 and the large amount of money being spent on top secret activities.  While this was compiled using publicly available data, there are now questions as to whether the consolidated report would be considered classified using the controversial "mosaic theory".  It is very interesting reading, considering we have now spent over $1T on anti-terrorism measures.

This is very alarming to me, when you take into account that very, very few people are killed or harmed by terrorists.