Thousands of government agencies and private companies are involved in the effort to collect and analyze intelligence in the wake of 9/11.
According to journalist William Arkin, the network is so sprawling that no one has a complete understanding of how it functions. Arkin is co-author of a series of articles in the Washington Post entitled "Top Secret America".
The articles describe an intelligence and information gathering infrastructure troubled by a lack of centralized oversight and hampered by inefficiency and redundancy. VPR’s Jane Lindholm talks with Arkin about his research and the massive growth of the intelligence industry since September 11, 2001.