By demoting the office, the Administration sent a signal through the national security bureaucracy about the salience they assigned to terrorism.

Yet our national security bureaucracies continue to operate within a peacetime model.

They demand, therefore, that the social security bureaucracy should more effectively control and discipline its subordinates.

The last time the national security bureaucracy transcended doubts and pessimism about big ideas was in 1947.

Another factor hampering the strategic arms talks was that the national security bureaucracies on each side lagged behind the political leadership.

We have grown a "security" bureaucracy to improve it.

Fear of big government endures, while the country has created a huge security bureaucracy.

The creation of a national security bureaucracy walled off from public scrutiny produced other malign effects as well.

On Thursday, the country's social security bureaucracy is expected to be crippled as five unions have called for a strike.

But attempts at real change have always been blocked by a permanent and potent national security bureaucracy.