Each day as I walk into work, I see the words cited on the Archive’s 1999 George Polk journalism award and smile. The Archive was recognized for “piercing the self-serving veils of government secrecy, guiding journalists in the search for the truth and informing us all.”
It’s no surprise, then, that I think the Washington Post’s “Top Secret America” project is awesome. The team of “investigative reporters, cartography experts, database reporters, video journalists, researchers, interactive graphic designers, digital designers, graphic designers, and graphics editors” that spent two years tirelessly discovering, compiling, and presenting this data, have succeeded in exposing the ethereal “national security complex” in America. (more…)
