Transcript: Homeland Security Gets The Reality TV Treatment

STEVE INSKEEP
NPR Morning Edition
01-06-2009
Homeland Security Gets The Reality TV Treatment

Host: STEVE INSKEEP
Time 10:00-11:00 AM


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STEVE INSKEEP, host:

Agencies like the CIA are supposed to work mainly overseas. But in recent years, they've been urged to work more closely with domestic security agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, which we'll hear about next. That much criticized agency gets a burst of publicity starting tonight. ABC begins a reality show called "Homeland Security U.S.A." It has the look of a documentary. It avoids politics, and is paced more like a police drama. NPR's Carrie Kahn reports.

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