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Program after program began flashing on a screen, he said, until he yelled “Stop!” in frustration. The other recounted that for his initial briefing, he was escorted into a tiny, dark room, seated at a small table and told he couldn’t take notes. “I’m not going to live long enough to be briefed on everything” was how one Super User put it. But as two of the Super Users indicated in interviews, there is simply no way they can keep up with the nation’s most sensitive work. In the Department of Defense, where more than two-thirds of the intelligence programs reside, only a handful of senior officials - called Super Users - have the ability to even know about all the department’s activities. “There has been so much growth since 9/11 that getting your arms around that - not just for the DNI (Director of National Intelligence), but for any individual, for the director of the CIA, for the secretary of defense - is a challenge,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in an interview with The Post last week.

They are also issues that greatly concern some of the people in charge of the nation’s security. These are not academic issues lack of focus, not lack of resources, was at the heart of the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting that left 13 dead, as well as the Christmas Day bomb attempt thwarted not by the thousands of analysts employed to find lone terrorists but by an alert airline passenger who saw smoke coming from his seatmate.

Analysts who make sense of documents and conversations obtained by foreign and domestic spying share their judgment by publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year - a volume so large that many are routinely ignored.

cities, track the flow of money to and from terrorist networks. For example, 51 federal organizations and military commands, operating in 15 U.S.

Many security and intelligence agencies do the same work, creating redundancy and waste.

An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1 1/2 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances.

Some 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies work on programs related to counterterrorism, homeland security and intelligence in some 10,000 locations across the United States.

The investigation’s other findings include: After nine years of unprecedented spending and growth, the result is that the system put in place to keep the United States safe is so massive that its effectiveness is impossible to determine. These are some of the findings of a two-year investigation by The Washington Post that discovered what amounts to an alternative geography of the United States, a Top Secret America hidden from public view and lacking in thorough oversight.

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. The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close MenuĪ note about this project follows the story