Permanent Emergency: Inside the TSA and the Fight for the Future of American Security
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| Rating | : | 4.99 (879 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1137278323 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to AC. Very interesting great read. Who knew? This book adds behind-the-scenes reality to the tip of the iceberg we see going through airports. It reads like a novel that we can all relate to. The degrees of separation between what we see as travellers and what the terrorists are trying to do to us becomes vivid - putting the w. Jim Lenox said Fascinating and Important read. I had to read this for my job and was dreading it at first. I want to spend as little time as possible with the TSA and could have cared less. I didn't expect this to be as thrilling an account of the birth of the new american security culture or as insightful a look into how fear h
In mid-2005 he became the fourth administrator in the agency's troubled three-year existence. Nathan Means has worked on a variety of non-fiction books, including New York Times bestseller In Fed We Trust and other well-received titles such as Arab Voices and The India Way. He lives in Pebble Beach, California. Kip Hawley left his job in Silicon Valley a month after 9/11 to help bu
But many question whether this strange assortment of regulations, meant to protect the two million people a day travelling through US airports, actually works. We're all familiar with the TSA by nowfrom the daunting lines to the X-ray machines to the curious three ounce rule governing liquids. This is a fascinating glimpse inside one of the country's most maligned agencies and the complex business of keeping Americans safe every day.. Instead, he argues, we must learn to manage reasonable levels of risk so we can focus our near-term energy on stopping truly catastrophic events while, in the long-term, engaging passengers to support a less rigid and more sustainable security strategy. Citing foiled terrorist plots and near misses that have never been publicly revealed, Hawley suggests that the fundamental flaw in America's approach to national security is the
In matters of transportation, Hawley demonstrates, the trade-off is not security vs. American values and constitutional protections, but security vs. Hawley's efforts vividly remind me of the bureaucratic chaos experienced attempting to stay one step ahead of U.S. Maybe permanently.” HomelandSecurityWatch“A lively, fun-to-read, insider's account of an agency whose mission is critical to our safety.” Dana Priest, Investigative Reporter, The Washington Post and author of Top Secret America“While it may not assuage the frustrations of air travelers, K