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FRONTLINE: Are We Safer?

Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the vast domestic intelligence apparatus built since 9/11 that stores and analyzes information on thousands of U.S. citizens.
Courtesy of Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post
Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the vast domestic intelligence apparatus built since 9/11 that stores and analyzes information on thousands of U.S. citizens.

Airs Friday, January 21, 2010 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

In this film, FRONTLINE goes inside The Washington Post's major two-year examination into the massive, unwieldy, top secret world the U.S. government has created in response to 9/11.

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11. Against a backdrop of recent mail bomb threats from Al Qaeda in Yemen and growing concerns about homegrown terrorists, Priest explores the growing reach of homeland security, fusion centers, battlefield technologies, and data collecting into the lives of ordinary Americans.

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