Joshua L. Dratel expands upon Azmy’s theme to examine the relationship between two much-overlooked aspects of US security strategy: race and economics. He argues that the institutionalization of profit-making efforts in programs for counterterrorism and deradicalization have reinforced what political theorists refer to as a permanent state of exception inside America’s criminal prosecutions of terrorism suspects. Drawing on his vast experience as a litigator in terrorism and national security cases, Dratel incorporates fresh examples of the evolution of racism as a national security issue and argues that counter-messaging and de-radicalization are as illusory as are America’s sense of infinite resources.