Are We Safer?

Coming Jan 18. Washington Post reporter Dana Priest investigates the terrorism-industrial complex that grew up in the wake of 9/11.

An investigation into a growing trend: the outsourcing of major airline repair work.

There are a lot of closely guarded secrets in Afghanistan. The country's former intelligence chief, Amrullah Saleh, knows most of them.

The Washington Post's Dana Priest reports on the sprawling post-9/11 terrorism-industrial complex -- and its growing reach into the lives of ordinary Americans

Three years ago, the U.S. led a new counterinsurgency effort in this Afghanistan town. But has the medicine worked?

In "Flying Cheaper," coming Tues., Jan. 18, FRONTLINE correspondent Miles O'Brien investigates a growing trend - the outsourcing of major airline repair work to independent maintenance operations and a pattern of questionable maintenance practices. In this clip, O'Brien examines allegations of illegal airline parts being used to service planes of major carriers.

License plate readers, like those used on the streets of Baghdad, are now being used to collect, store and analyze the movements of vehicles on the streets of Baltimore. In "Are We Safer?," the debut segment in FRONTLINE's new monthly magazine series premiering Jan. 18, The Washington Post's Dana Priest investigates the growing reach of homeland security into the lives of ordinary Americans.