http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-emergency-state-americas-pursuit-of-absolute-security-at-all-costs-by-david-unger-and-permanent-emergency-inside-the-tsa-and-the-fight-for-the-future-of-american-security-by-kip-hawley-and-nathan-me“The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at all Costs” by David Unger

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“The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at all Costs” by David Unger and “Permanent Emergency: Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security” by Kip Hawley and Nathan Means

By Karen J. Greenberg, Published: May 25

Last year a Newsweek article made public President Obama’s reading list. Its message was promising: A third of the books focused on former presidencies. Yet according to “The Emergency State,” David C. Unger’s ambitious and valuable overview of 20th-century presidents and national security, Obama has unfortunately picked up the bad habits of his predecessors. They have created what Unger calls emergency state government — policies by which America’s security interests are defined with an ever-increasing expansiveness. Over the past century, Unger argues, America’s presidents have incrementally institutionalized the emergency state and in so doing have weakened the country morally, constitutionally, financially and most of all in terms of security itself.