When everything becomes a National Security Threat

Filed by Elara Myst

 John Whitehead's CommentaryBy John & Nisha WhiteheadSeptember 22, 2026“The word ‘security’ is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment.” —Justice Hugo Black, New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)“National security” has become the government’s all-purpose permission slip to behave badly.They have become the magic words that can make constitutional restraints...