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The creation of this extraordinary spider's-web of intrigue can be dated back to 16 September 2001, a week after the attacks, when George Bush announced from Camp David the launch of what he called a "war on terror". The war would take a while, he warned, and the American people would have to be patient, but he was determined.
What he didn't warn the American people was that nine years later that war would have spawned a gigantic proliferation of agencies and spending unparalleled in US history.
Not only is the system huge and massively expensive, it is also highly inefficient and unwieldy, the Post believes. The official US intelligence budget now stands at $75bn, almost three times its size at 9/11, with 263 new bodies dedicated to rooting out violent extremism.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...ple-since-2001
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Has pretty much the look of welfare as tea baggers calls it : inefficient, unwieldy, proliferation, massive ... well, socialism at work ...
Note: hummm, healthcare reform = bad
spying = good