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ISIS has claimed responsibility for this past Thursday's deadly terror attack in Barcelona, Spain, that killed and wounded people from at least 34 countries -- including the United States. This year alone, the Spanish police have arrested more than 20 people with links to ISIS.  Here in America, 100 people have been arrested for ISIS-related crimes over the last three years. The FBI devotes significant resources to identifying potential terrorists and sometimes spends years tracking them. The terror attack in Garland, Texas, two years ago was the first claimed by ISIS on U.S. soil.  It's mostly forgotten because the two terrorists were killed by local cops before they managed to murder anyone.  As Anderson Cooper first reported in March, we were surprised to discover just how close the FBI was to one of the terrorists. Not only had the FBI been monitoring him for years, there was an undercover agent right behind him when the first shots were fired. Terrorists behind 2015 ...

Photo by Andrea Yori | CC BY 2.0 In the wake of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Washington pursued its elusive enemies across the landscapes of Asia and Africa, thanks in part to a massive expansion of its intelligence infrastructure, particularly of the emerging technologies for digital surveillance , agile drones, and biometric identification. In 2010, almost a decade into this secret war with its voracious appetite for information, the Washington Post reported that the national security state had swelled into a “fourth branch” of the federal government — with 854,000 vetted officials, 263 security organizations , and over 3,000 intelligence units, issuing 50,000 special reports every year. Though stunning, these statistics only skimmed the visible surface of what had become history’s largest and most lethal clandestine apparatus . According to classified documents that Edward Snowden leaked in 2013, the nation’s 16 intelligence agencies alone had 107,035 employees and a combined “b...

Find out when your favorite shows return—plus, every new series. Most Popular HBO/CBS/Sundance Channel/NBC/ABC Aug 25, 2017 The season of crammed DVRs and binge-watching is upon us again. Not surprisingly, the fall TV lineups reveal plenty of new pedigree programming. Shows like David Simon and George Pelecanos' HBO drama The Deuce and Jane Campion's SundanceTV miniseries Top of the Lake: China Girl will probably become as much a part of the zeitgeist as returning shows like ABC's Scandal ( back October 5 ) and AMC's The Walking Dead (October 22). Also, expect a smattering of shows about real Americans making a difference, be it Lifetime's retelling of the events surrounding the Flint water crisis (premiering October 28) or, out later this year, National Geographic Channel 's adaptation of journalist Martha Raddatz 's book The Long Road Home : A Story of War and Family . This includes fictional programming , like military drama s Valor ( premieres O...