Willful Neglect : The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security
ISBN: 9781599219066 | 1599219069
Format: Trade BookPublisher: Lyons Press
Pub. Date: 3/2/2010
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The Central Intelligence Agency's most respected former Middle East counterterrorism officer applies a critical lens to the state of America's Homeland Security system and asks, "Are we really any safer than we were on 9/11?" Have the vast new bureaucracies that have arisen and the billions spent translated intorealprotection? Or has complacency set in? His answer is terrifying. Charles S. Faddis, the author ofBeyond Repairand the coauthor ofOperation Hotel California, was trained through his years in the field with the CIA to know what it is l... MORE
| Introduction | p. vi |
| If Even the Military Is Not Safe, What Chance Do the Rest of Us Have? | p. 1 |
| A Very Slow-Motion Train Wreck | p. 22 |
| Nothing More Hideous Could Be Imagined | p. 43 |
| It Has Happened Before | p. 66 |
| From the Frying Pan into the Fire-LNG | p. 95 |
| Noah Knew | p. 116 |
| Remembering Caffa | p. 133 |
| We Have Been Warned | p. 164 |
Charles S. Faddis served twenty years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an operations officer, holding positions as a department chief at the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center in Washington, D.C., and as a chief of station in the Middle East. He is the author of Beyond Repair (October 2009, Lyons Press), a scathing critique of today’s CIA, and the coauthor of Operation Hotel California (October 2008 hardcover, May 2010 paperback; Lyons Press), which recounts how he led the first CIA mission into Iraq in 2002 in preparation for the pending invasion. He lives in Davidsonville, Maryland.
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