No Place to Hide: Our Emerging Surveillance Society

An in-depth investigation of the national security infrastructure that relies heavily on private resources to help gather intelligence data.

Director: Ben McCoy
Producers: Robert O'Harrow, Jr., Peter Bull, Tom Yellin

Production Company
Center for Investigative Reporting

Release Date
January 20, 2005

This unique multimedia investigation uncovers in unnerving detail the post-9/11 marriage of private data services and government anti-terror initiatives. Led by Robert O’Harrow, Jr., award-winning reporter for The Washington Post and an associate of CIR, No Place to Hide shows how the government now depends on burgeoning private reservoirs of information about almost every aspect of our lives to protect homeland security and fight the war on terror. With unrivaled access, No Place to Hide tells the inside stories of key players in this new world – from software inventors to counterintelligence officials – and examines the impact of the new security system on our traditional notions of civil liberties, autonomy and privacy. This eye-opening examination takes readers, viewers and listeners behind the walls of secrecy to show how we are rushing towards a surveillance society with few rules to guide and protect us. In this new world of high-tech domestic intelligence, there is literally no place to hide.