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Washington Post, investigative series, 2010

• http://www.pulitzer.org/files/entryforms/WashPost_TSA_Item1.pdf

"A hidden world, growing beyond control"

"The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 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."

• Annual costs, known and unknown, in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Spiralling out-of-control spending.

• Loss of privacy across political spheres with near-and-present threats to civil liberties and rights.

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