5 revelations from the Post’s ‘Monitoring America’ investigation - Yahoo! News

5 revelations from the Post’s ‘Monitoring America’ investigation - Yahoo! News: "The FBI is assembling a massive database on thousands of Americans, many of whom have not been accused of any crime, the Washington Post's Dana Priest and William Arkin report. The reporters' latest look at the country's ballooning national security system focuses on the role that local agencies -- often staffed by people with little to no counter-terrorism training -- have played in combating terrorism since 2001. Here are five striking revelations in their piece:"