“What does the United States have to show for tens of billions of dollars of Homeland Security antiterrorism spending by local and state governments? Michael Sheehan, former New York City deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, observed, ‘I firmly believe that those huge budget increases have not significantly contributed to our post–9/11 security.’ But the war on terrorism has been an unmitigated victory for Leviathan and politicians at every level of government.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/homeland-securitys-multibillion-dollar-comedy-show/
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