‘Top Secret America Investigation’ Report The Washington Post

Posted by Gulzar Ashu on July 19th, 2010 in America, World News | 3 Comments

From the time when the terrorist attacked World Trade Centre on 11th September, the top-secret intelligence spent cumbersome sum that no one really knows about the cost and how many people are involved, The Washington Post reported Monday. Two-year study by the newspaper uncovered what it termed a “Top Secret America” that’s mostly concealed from public view and largely lacking in mistake.
Updates from Business Pundit The Post covers numerous aspects of “Top Secret America.” I leafed around to find the ones most relevant to business and the economy (aside from the fact that America seems to need an army of management consultants). Here are some excerpts from the report, which is worth reading in its entirety:
* Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
* Every day across the United States, 854,000 civil servants, military personnel and private contractors with top-secret security clearances are scanned into offices protected by electromagnetic locks, retinal cameras and fortified walls that eavesdropping equipment cannot penetrate.
* In all, at least 263 organizations have been created or reorganized as a response to 9/11. Each has required more people, and those people have required more administrative and logistic support: phone operators, secretaries, librarians, architects, carpenters, construction workers, air-conditioning mechanics and, because of where they work, even janitors with top-secret clearances. (Ed.: Hey, that must be where all the new jobs are coming from).
www.washingtonpost.com has some additional reports coming out this week which will reveal more information about “Top-Secret Intelligence”