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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110914:11:48:00

And so we had to redo a lot of how intelligence was gathered. and that s why, you know, congress ended up in the very beginning writing a blank check. we were all worried that there was going to be another attack. but they kept writing them without doing i would say is decent oversight due diligence. what would be the biggest shock for readers that haven t been following you and your work and following this closely since 2002 to 2003. they opened this book up. what is the take away that would shock most well, i think two things. one is how large this is. 1,200 government organizations that do top secret work, and another 2,000 companies. nearly 900,000 people who have top secret clearances. virtually the size of washington, d.c. but spread out. and the department of homeland security, for instance, is building a building, its headquarters will be larger than the pentagon. but the other thing i think will be surprising, there are ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110914:11:46:00

Welcome back to morning jo joe , 45 past the hour. joining us now dana priest. co-author of the new book top secret america: the rise of the new american security state, and it s good to have you on the show this morning. you re getting response to the book already. it s been out about a week? yes. big interest, i think it s a world that people don t write much about because it s so hard to write about. it is what i try to do is look back ten years later and say, what did we create in response to 9/11? and we created a gigantic government structure that includes a lot of private corporations. some very focused good organizations that have made us much safer than we were on 9/11 and basically defeated almost entirely al qaeda even though ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110504:08:07:00

Wars, themselves, directly cost about $1.3 trillion since 9/11. and $1.4 trillion if the president s budget for next year is approved. i say that s conservative because nobel prize winning economist wrote a book about just the iraq war that was titled the three trillion dollar war. again, just for iraq not even talking about afghanistan. and not even talking about everything else we have spent so much on as a country because 9/11 happened. because of what al qaeda did. money that we would not have necessarily spent otherwise. last year the washington post published a remarkable information called top secret america chronicling how much money we have poured into defense and intelligence and security over the last decade. i ve gone back to this series again and again since they first published it. quote, the pentagon s defense intelligence agency has gone from 7,500 employees in 2002 to 16,500 today. the budget of the national ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110504:01:07:00

By their very conservative estimate just things like veterans health care and the wars themselves directly cost about $1.3 trillion since 9/11. and $1.4 trillion if the president s budget for next year is approved. i say that s conservative because nobel prize writing economist wrote a book about just the iraq war that was titled the $3 trillion war. again, just for iraq not even talking about afghanistan. and not even talking about everything else we have spent so much on as a country because 9/11 happened. because of what al qaeda did. money that we would not have necessarily spent otherwise. last year the washington post published a remarkable information called top secret america chronicling how much money we have poured into defense and security over the last decade. i ve gone back to this series again and again since they first push lished it. the pentagon s intelligence agency has gone from 7500 ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110225:23:52:00

Talked about top secret america, these corporate factions so unaccountable that nobody even knows what nay ear doing. this is really the powerful faction that runs washington. even if he wanted to, it would be difficult to come in and challenge that. what they care most about is being able to operate behind a wall of secrecy. that s who the president is protecting. we see it everywhere and you see it in the pentagon, too. how do we get beyond such institutional power? you do have instances like michael hastings who reported on what general mcchrystal really was, what the military is doing in afghanistan. and that s why you see this group of government officials anonymously and media figures attacking him and trying to smear his reputation. ....

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