Mises Wire
Author:
Kelly Offield
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Security state agencies must justify their existence. There are 1,271 counterterrorist, homeland security, and intelligence organizations; 1,931 private sector analogues; 10,000 locations of these organizations; and ~ 854,000 people with top-secret security clearances as of 2010. To make matters worse, the line between private and public is