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The cycle repeats: a dramatic declaration of decisive action, followed by mission creep, inconclusive results, all without resolution, setting the stage for yet another offensive.
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Yonatan Touval, Time, 22 Aug. 2025
This is mission creep in action—by breaking the police state’s hostile takeover of the country and our Constitution into a series off incremental moves, the administration sidesteps the broad public backlash that a single, sweeping declaration of martial law would provoke.
—John Whitehead, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
Somewhere along the way, that mission was diluted by mission creep and bloated budgets.
—Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
Watchdog groups are not convinced that this type of technology won’t be subject to mission creep.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 July 2025
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Yonatan Touval, Time, 22 Aug. 2025
This is mission creep in action—by breaking the police state’s hostile takeover of the country and our Constitution into a series off incremental moves, the administration sidesteps the broad public backlash that a single, sweeping declaration of martial law would provoke.
—John Whitehead, Oc Register, 16 Aug. 2025
Somewhere along the way, that mission was diluted by mission creep and bloated budgets.
—Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2025
Watchdog groups are not convinced that this type of technology won’t be subject to mission creep.
—IEEE Spectrum, 5 July 2025
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“Mission creep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mission%20creep. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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