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FRONTLINE | Are We Safer? Preview | PBS

Duration: 00:30
Program: Frontline #2906
Broadcast Date: Jan. 18, 2011

Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the vast terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11.

In this first story, 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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Post Date: January 6, 2011