Twenty-five years of “temporary”: how 9/11 built a surveillance state Americans never voted for

 

  The towers fell in a single morning, but the government that rose from the rubble never stopped growing. A quarter-century after September 11, 2001, the emergency measures that the federal government swore were only temporary have calcified into a permanent architecture -- an alphabet soup of agencies, a legal doctrine of pre-emption, and a surveillance apparatus so pervasive that privacy has become less a right than a nostalgic memory.

What began as a promise to hunt down nineteen hijackers metastasized into a standing machinery for watching, cataloguing, and controlling the American public itself. The uncomfortable truth, twenty-five years on, is that the terrorists succeeded in one respect the history books rarely admit: they goaded the United States into dismantling pieces of its own constitutional order, and the country did the rest of the work willingly.....<<<Read More>>>....

 

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