Dana Priest: What Happens When You Write a Blank Check for Counter-Terrorism

Apr 17, 2012

In the rush to make America safer after 9/11, the U.S. government created a behemoth so vast and secretive that no one really knows its dimensions, according to Dana Priest.

Dana Priest is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Washington Post.

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