The national security state, he says: "controls the Presidency.

After the war, the authors write, Forrestal became "the godfather of the national security state."

Yeah, so you're able to check the security state before you click.

You know about the heightened security state, I believe?

In the US the spending went on other things - a couple of wars and a security state for a start.

Well you can be damned sure there's one part of the public sector that won't be cut, and that's the security state.

The country has been transformed into a national security state.

He wrote about the costs to this country of becoming "a national security state, geared for war at all times."

The order is, live under the conformity of the new security state, or else!

One said the United States had already become a militarized national security state.