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* An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances. * In Washington and the surrounding area, 33 building complexes for top-secret intelligence work are under construction or have been built since September 2001. Together they occupy the equivalent of almost three Pentagons or 22 U.S. Capitol buildings - about 17 million square feet of space. * Many security and intelligence agencies do the same work, creating redundancy and waste. For example, 51 federal organizations and military commands, operating in 15 U.S. cities, track the flow of money to and from terrorist networks. * Analysts who make sense of docu

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“Marriage equality, my sister and my brothers, is so important because we haven’t cast out fear — not yet,” Peters said. “Marriage equality is so important because we need to see more love, we need to see it in each other.”" The press conference was our response to the National Organization of Marriage, which kicked off a multi-state campaign against equality yesterday in Augusta.  You can see a video clip covering the competing events here.     

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