The two most important words in the lives of the American people for the past 60 years have been "national security." The term has transformed American society for the worse. It has warped the morals and values of the American people. It has stultified conscience. It has altered the constitutional order. It has produced a democratically elected government that wields totalitarian powers. In this book, Future of Freedom Foundation president Jacob Hornberger explores the ascendency of and "national security and " and its dangerous distortions of the American body politic.