"Rethinking Open Checkbook for the Security Colossus" from the New York Times points out that due to the public isn't concerned about terrorism as an issue - and that the nation can't afford to not cap spending on national security. However it could take one big attack again to change all that back.
Now that may be changing. The looming federal budgetcrunch, a sense that major attacks on the United States are unlikely and new bipartisan criticism of the sprawling counterterrorism bureaucracy may mean that the open checkbook era is nearing an end.
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