page_title: Top Secret America
hierarchical_section_title: Top Secret America
caption_attribution_description: DANA PRIEST talks about her book, &quot;Top Secret America&quot; which &quot;Describes the enormous, top-secret, invisible universe created by the government after 9/11 and describes why the system in place to keep us safe may actually be putting us in greater danger.&quot; (Review from NPR) Held December 2, 2011. Miller Center, Charlottesville, VA. For more information, visit &lt;a href="http://millercenter.org/" rel="nofollow"&gt;millercenter.org/&lt;/a&gt;.
context_page_description: Top Secret America is a series of investigative articles published on the post-9/11 growth of the United States Intelligence Community. The report was first published in The Washington Post on July 19, 2010, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dana Priest and William Arkin.
  The three-part series, which took nearly two years to research, was prepared with the assistance of more than a dozen journalists. It focuses on the expansion of secret intelligence departments within the government, and the outsourcing of services.
  An online database, as well as the articles to be published, were made available to government officials several months prior to the publications of the report. Each data point was substantiated by at least two public records. The government was requested to advise of any specific concerns, but at that time, none were offered.
  The Public Broadcasting System featured Priest and Arkin's work on Top Secret America in a September 6, 2011 broadcast of the news documentary series Frontline. That same month, the book Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State was published by Little, Brown and Company.
context_section_description: Top Secret America is a series of investigative articles published on the post-9/11 growth of the United States Intelligence Community. The report was first published in The Washington Post on July 19, 2010, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Dana Priest and William Arkin.
  The three-part series, which took nearly two years to research, was prepared with the assistance of more than a dozen journalists. It focuses on the expansion of secret intelligence departments within the government, and the outsourcing of services.
  An online database, as well as the articles to be published, were made available to government officials several months prior to the publications of the report. Each data point was substantiated by at least two public records. The government was requested to advise of any specific concerns, but at that time, none were offered.
  The Public Broadcasting System featured Priest and Arkin's work on Top Secret America in a September 6, 2011 broadcast of the news documentary series Frontline.   That same month, the book Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State was published by Little, Brown and Company.
caption: Dana Priest speaking about the Top Secret America book in 2011
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