Are We Safer?

Washington Post's Dana Priest reports on the sprawling post-9/11 terrorism-industrial complex — and its growing reach into the lives of ordinary Americans.

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(7:25) A two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top-secret world the government has created in response to 9/11.

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Map: Your Local Fusion CenterSee locations in your state for collecting/analyzing potential threats “Suspicious Activity” — Really?Ever see someone wearing unseasonal clothing? See what authorities call "suspicious" Reporting the StoryHow do you investigate a world the government doesn't want you to see? Reporter/correspondent Dana Priest explains

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March 28, 2012, 5:28 pm
Docs Reveal FBI Used Muslim Outreach As Guise to Collect Intel

For at least four years, federal agents used Muslim community outreach meetings at mosques in Northern California as a guise to collect intelligence and catalog the identities, personal information, religious views and travel of religious leaders and congregants, FBI documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union revealed yesterday.

March 23, 2012, 1:40 pm
New Counterterrorism Guidelines Allow U.S. to Hold Americans’ Data Longer

Signed yesterday, the new rules will allow the government to hold data on U.S. citizens who are not suspected of terrorist activity for 10 times longer than before.

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FRONTLINE's new monthly magazine series launches with the latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest, who investigates the sprawling terrorism-industrial complex that has grown up in the wake of 9/11. Her report, Are We Safer? -- produced and directed by FRONTLINE veteran Michael Kirk (The Warning, Obama's Deal) -- explores the growing reach of homeland security into the lives of ordinary Americans. (read more »)

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