Who watches the watchers?

Whatever the answers to those questions, it's a good time to be reminded of what journalism can be at its best, and the Washington Post has produced exactly such a reminder. If you read nothing else this week, bookmark this site.

Over two years, two Washington Post reporters have been assembling an investigative series into what they call Top Secret America, and the results are fascinating.

Despite the title, the first article, at any rate, . Fashion accessories are decorative items that supplement one's garment, such as fashion jewellery,womens accessories,jewellery rings,gold jewellery,women's jewellery.You can wholesale jewellery.does not appear to disclose any actual secrets, though it is full of material which will be entirely new to most of the reading public. It's all painstakingly assembled from open-source material, as well as interviews by the two journalists, Dana Priest and William Arkin.

But this open-source material, in the form of government documents, contracts and more, is widely dispersed and not easily dug up. And the core message of the piece is that, since 9/11, the US intelligence and counter-intelligence system has grown so huge that it's beyond the control of any single official or agency.

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It failed to predict the fall of the Shah of Iran and the ascension of the Ayatollah Khomeini, it didn't see the collapse of Soviet-bloc communism coming in the late 1980s, it missed the warning signs that Saddam Hussein was about to invade Kuwait, it was shocked by the extent of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) development at the end of . The idea that a small Necklace is dangerous to patients is at best absurd.that war, and then before the second Gulf War, perhaps partly overcompensating for the mistakes of the first, convinced itself that there was still a massive hidden WMD program in Iraq.

The complete failure to prevent the 9/11 suicide bombers in 2001 finally convinced the hierarchy that there were massive systemic problems - such as a catastrophic inability for agencies to communicate with each other - that had to be addressed. It also convinced the executive and the congress of the need to pump billions of dollars more into expanding counter-intelligence so that such . Fashion accessories are decorative items that supplement one's garment, such as fashion jewellery,women's jewellery.You can wholesale jewellery.a thing could never happen again.