Jacob Hornberger on the military industrial complex

Today, people continue to hew to the quaint notion that the vast military-intelligence establishment still falls within the executive branch.  Pure nonsense.  Since the very beginning of the conversion, the other three branches — the executive, legislative, and judicial — understood that things had changed dramatically in America and that the national-security establishment had, as a practical matter, become a separate branch of government— and the most powerful branch, one that the other three branches would end up deferring to and supporting. 

~ Jacob G. Hornberger, "Israel and the Nullification of the Constitution," The Future of Freedom Foundation, August 10, 2024