"Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State," a MIT Starr Forum Book Talk

About

Featuring:

Dana Priest, Washington Post

More details and map to event:

http://web.mit.edu/cis/eventposter_090911_priest.html

About the speaker:

Dana Priest is a national security reporter whose work focuses on intelligence and counterterrorism.

She has won numerous awards, including the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for public service for "The Other Walter Reed"

and the 2006 Pulitzer for beat reporting for her work on CIA secret prisons and counter-terrorism operations overseas.

In TOP SECRET AMERICA, Dana Priest and William Arkin uncover the enormous size, shape, mission,

and consequences of the invisible universe: the top-secret world that the government created in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Books sold and signed at the event