"The aftermath of 9/11 saw national security become a boom industry with the emergence of a massive “military intelligence complex” and no end to taxpayer-funded growth in sight, the Washington Post’s Dana Priest told a large University of Delaware Global Agenda speaker series audience Wednesday night at Mitchell Hall.
Priest, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the book Top Secret America, said the national security apparatus – both the government bureaucracy and the huge number of private contractors on which it has come to rely – is so enormous that even the federal government is unsure how many contractors work for it."
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