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Bureaucracy that "the washington post" described as an additional 1,271 government organizations, 1,931 private companies and an estimated 854,000 people holding top secret security clearances. before 9/11, no one in publics and private life talked about article three courts. courted called for under the constitution because those were just what courts were. we didn't have anything but article three courts. why would we? before 9/11, we didn't drop bombs using flying robots. before 9/11, we had not lost 3,000 people in lower manhattan and at the pentagon and in pennsylvania. before 9/11, we di...

Based in saudi arabia. before 9/11 the u.s. legal history of torture was of our government prosecuting people for that. wartime was no excuse. before 9/11, the national security agency having access to everybody's emails and phone calls and texts and bank records and everything would have been a scandal. before 9/11, we did not have a new militarized intelligence bureaucracy that "the washington post" described as an additional 1,271 government organizations, 1,931 private companies and an estimated 854,000 people holding top secret security clearances. before 9/11, no one in publics and priva...

Than a trillion dollars on the war on terror. the "washington post" published a series reporting that american intelligence has become a bureaucracy it called a hidden world growing beyond control. "the posts" reported that 854,000 people, many of them private contractors now hold top secret clearance. since 2001, 30 new top secret clearance complexes have been build in the d.c. area. and operations spread over 10,000 locations. james clapper took issue with "the posts" reporter, dana priest. >> i think she has driven for a bit of sensationalism here. that's not to say there are not inefficien...

Published a major series reporting that american intelligence has become a bureaucracy it called a hidden world growing beyond control. "the post" reported that 854,000 people, many of them private contractors, now hold top-secret clearance. since 2001, 30 new top-secret intelligence complexes have been built in the d.c. area. intelligence operations are spread over 10,000 u.s. locations. the man nominated to head all u.s. intelligence, retired lieutenant general james clapper, took issue with "post" reporter and two-time pulitzer prize winner dana priest. >> i think she's striven for a bit of...

Nation's sovereignty eroded. so basically the contractors aren't beholden to the -- haven't sworn, you know, as one does when one works for the u.s. government. they're beholden to their shareholders. they want to -- you know, they're in a business and they want to make money. and then we find out from this "post" article that there are 854,000 people with top-secret security clearance and 30% of them are these outside contractors. i just can't believe that in the hundreds of thousands of private contractors with top-secret clearance that there is not one bad appear nele in there. >> the same ...