Digital Component a Significant Part of WashPo's 'Top Secret America' Investigation
Politico’s profile today of William Arkin, the co-author of Washington Post two-time Pulitzer winner Dana Priest’s fresh-off-the-presses “Top Secret America” investigation, reveals that the digital component was a big part of project.
Priest tells Politico that she met up with Arkin in 2008, after the two had been working separately on trying to quantify the scope of the intelligence apparatus that had emerged in the wake of 9/11. “The ‘lightning strike’,” Politico says, “came when they realized that although they couldn’t get inside these secret sites, they could physically represent them through databases and mapping.”
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