The must read/watch/explore/become aware of story of the day/week/year has finally broken in the WaPo.  Wikileaks founder Assange worked weeks to put together a data base that showed all the TS/SCI money flowing through our budget and finally a group of reporters has analyzed the data and written about it.

Learn how much money is being spent and how no one is in charge of organizations that can make you a non-person, have almost unlimited funds, and no chain of command to control them.   There is no oversight.  No control.  No rules.  And the power transfer to CORPORATIONS is blatant, scary and very real.

As a Wikileaks tweet put it:

Real change begins Monday in the WashPost. By the years end, a reformation. Lights on. Rats out. 1:57 PM Jul 17th via HTC Peep

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Here is the WaPo tease from this morning:

The Top Secret America database was put together [by Wikileaks] by compiling hundreds of thousands of public records of government organizations and private-sector companies.

From these records, The Washington Post identified 45 government organizations (for example, the FBI) engaged in top-secret work and determined that those 45 organizations could be broken down into 1,271 sub-units (for example, the Terrorist Screening Center of the FBI). One of the 45 organizations is represented as “unknown”; this category was created as a catchall for companies doing work for a government organization that could not be determined.

At the private-sector level, The Post identified 1,931 companies engaged in top-secret work for the government. Private-sector companies were grouped together and listed by a parent company's name (for example, General Dynamics), even though one company might contain multiple sub-units (for example, General Dynamics Information Technology).

In a case where a large corporation (for example, Boeing) has a distinctly named sub-unit engaged in top-secret work (for example, Boeing's Digital Receiver Technology) the name of the sub-unit was used. In the case of large corporations not primarily in the defense industry (for example, AT&T) that have similarly named sub-units that focus on top-secret work (for example, AT&T Government Solutions), the name of the parent company is used and the name of the sub-unit is noted. For every company listed, revenue and employee data and the date of establishment were drawn from public filings, Dun & Bradstreet data and original reporting.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/top-secret-america/

There will be at least two more articles this week from WaPo.  As usual, Greenwald over at Overlord Salon has the best analysis.

Yes, I suckered you here.  Deal with it.  Here, at least, is the nudity:

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