Twenty-five years of “temporary”: how 9/11 built a surveillance state Americans never voted for The towers fell in a single morning, but the government that rose from the rubble never stopped growing. A quarter-century after September 11, 2001, the emergency measures that the federal government swore were only temporary have calcified into a permanent architecture — an alphabet soup of agencies, a legal doctrine of pre-emption, and a surveillance apparatus so pervasive that privacy has become less a right than a nostalgic memory. What began as a promise to hunt down nineteen hijackers metastasized into a standing machinery for watching, cataloguing,…

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