Federal Security Expenditures: Good or Bad

From an LA Times article found at today's Anchorage Daily News site:

A decade after the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, federal and state governments are spending about $75 billion a year on domestic security, setting up sophisticated radio networks, upgrading emergency medical response equipment, installing surveillance cameras and bomb-proof walls and outfitting airport screeners to detect an ever-evolving list of mobile explosives.

But whether the 10-year spending spree has been worth it is the subject of increasing debate.

Read the rest at the link.