What can you glean from a big story?
Submitted by Connecticut Man1 on July 19, 2010 - 11:23Sometimes the Big Story of the day is interesting enough on its own, as the turtle media pokes its head out of its shell once in a while:
A hidden world, growing beyond control
The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work.
And while the story itself promises to go down a lot of big and interesting rabbit holes: