That sounds a lot like:"Renew the fig leaf that lets us surveil American citizens under the color of law or we'll have more people killed".
Or: "Nice business you have there. Be a shame if it burned down because you had no 'protection'".
After all, which one is the more serious threat to the country? 3-5,000 killed and multi-billion economic impact vs the loss of freedom and self determination.
And if we want to tally human losses, how many people have been killed in overseas wars waged to protect the deep state?
Alternatively, if we want to get into financial loss numbers, just how much economic damage has been inflicted by outsourcing and globalization?
You see, the founders were absolutely right: no foreign threat, even to the magnitude of Pearl or 9/11 ever really actually threatened our foundation. But how close did the swamp get?
I can only imagine the reaction when the history is written with declassed materials and the full monty finally exposed.