""Your chance of dying in a bathtub is about one in a million, and from terrorism is about one in 3.5 million," Mueller told me in 2011, and it's far from clear that we were any safer despite large outlays (see interview below).
But if eternal funding for, say, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) seems locked in despite no clear evidence of its efficacy, it's also true that both politicians and voters remain happy to keep on believing that trading freedom for safety is a good idea."
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