National Security and Double Government Quotes

“Nearly fifty million Americans—more than 16 percent of the population and almost 20 percent of American children—live in poverty.72 A majority of students in public schools throughout the American South and West meet federal low-income requirements for free and reduced-price meals.73 A 2009 federal study estimated that thirty-two million American adults, about one in seven, are unable to read anything more challenging”
― Michael J. Glennon, National Security and Double Government

“An unrestrained security apparatus has throughout history been one of the principal reasons that free governments have failed.”
― Michael J. Glennon, National Security and Double Government

“Trumanites work for the President. Can’t he simply “stand tall” and order them to do what he directs, even though they disagree?     The answer is complex. It is not that the Trumanites would not obey;174 it is that such orders would rarely be given. Could not shades into would not, and improbability into near impossibility: President Obama could give an order wholly reversing U.S. national security policy, but he would not, because the likely adverse consequences would be prohibitive.”
― Michael J. Glennon, National Security and Double Government