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9:33 AM 9/5/2021 - Tweets by  ‎@mikenov  | This Post Link     Michael Novakhov Retweeted CNN Politics   ✔ @CNNPolitics January 6 select committee refutes claim by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy that the Justice Department cleared former President Donald Trump of any role in the insurrection https:// cnn.it/2Yj1soX   January 6 select committee refutes claim by McCarthy that the Justice Department cleared Trump of... The top members of the select committee investigating the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill refuted recent claims by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy that former President Donald Trump has been... cnn.com 4 m       Michael Novakhov @mikenov After 9/11, the U.S. set a new security goal: fighting terrorism at any cost. That shift has increased surveillance, empowered private contractors and changed Americans’ relationship with their government https://www. wsj.com/articles/9-11- triggered-a-homeland-security-industrial-comple...

SEPT. 11 9/11 Triggered a Homeland-Security Industrial Complex That Endures After the attacks, federal policies swelled a defense sector that has reshaped U.S. surveillance as well as northern Virginia’s suburbs   Post Link WASHINGTON—The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, led policy makers to embark on one of the largest spending binges in federal government history, transforming the private sector, the Washington metropolitan area and Americans’ relationship with their government.  Two cabinet departments—the Defense Department and Department of Homeland Security, which was created after the attacks to consolidate a number of existing agencies—saw huge funding increases as Washington geared up to fight two conventional wars, conduct world-wide operations against small, distributed networks of terrorists and harden the home front against future attacks. Reversing the 'Peace Dividend' A greater share of U.S. assets went into defense projects in the decade after 9/11 U.S. militar...