Since 2001 the TSA has accepted responsibility for protecting over two million people a day at U.S. airports and managing transportation operations around the world. But how effective is this beleaguered agency, and is it really keeping us safe from terrorism? In this riveting expose, former TSA administrator Kip Hawley reveals the secrets behind the agency's ongoing battle to outthink and outmaneuver terrorists, illuminating the flawed, broken system that struggles to stay one step ahead of catastrophe. Citing numerous thwarted plots and government actions that have never before been revealed publicly, Hawley suggests that the fundamental mistake in America's approach to national security is requiring a protocol for every contingency. Instead, he claims, we must learn to live with reasonable risk so that we can focus our efforts on long-term, big-picture strategy, rather than expensive and ineffective regulations that only slow us down.
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Since 2001 the TSA has accepted responsibility for protecting over two million people a day at U.S. airports and managing transportation operations around the world. But how effective is this beleaguered agency, and is it really keeping us safe from terrorism? In this riveting expose, former TSA administrator Kip Hawley reveals the secrets behind the agency's ongoing battle to outthink and outmaneuver terrorists, illuminating the flawed, broken system that struggles to stay one step ahead of catastrophe. Citing numerous thwarted plots and government actions that have never before been revealed publicly, Hawley suggests that the fundamental mistake in America's approach to national security is requiring a protocol for every contingency. Instead, he claims, we must learn to live with reasonable risk so that we can focus our efforts on long-term, big-picture strategy, rather than expensive and ineffective regulations that only slow us down.
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About the Author
Kip Hawley left his job in Silicon Valley a month after 9/11 to help build the TSA. In mid-2005 he became the fourth administrator in the agency's troubled three-year existence. During his tenure he facilitated a transformationof theTSA's culture and operations, improving training, upgrading technology, and dramatically extending public outreach. Since leaving the TSA Hawley has been a regular guest commentator for print media (The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, and theAssociated Press, among others), television (ABC, CBS, the Discovery Channel, CNN, NBC, and FOX News, among others). Today Hawley is a private consultant living in Pebble Beach, California.
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 Portland, Oregon.
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Who knew?
April 25 2012
By Frequent Traveler
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Format:Hardcover
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 why's behind many of the requirements we face. It is also a loud call for action to transform this massive and once hastily-assembled agency from one that is largely consumed on dealing problems that can't hurt us (but massively inconvenience us) to one that focuses primarily on the things that can kill us.
Appreciate the TSA for how they protect us or hate them for what they put us through, this book provides a plan for how we can better become part of the same team opposing the immediate threats that will now never go away. At some level it is policy, but in the end, this book is personal - as much mystery as history and highly relevant for all of us.
Informative, compelling, and very well written, this is a must read in the post 9/11 world.
Appreciate the TSA for how they protect us or hate them for what they put us through, this book provides a plan for how we can better become part of the same team opposing the immediate threats that will now never go away. At some level it is policy, but in the end, this book is personal - as much mystery as history and highly relevant for all of us.
Informative, compelling, and very well written, this is a must read in the post 9/11 world.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Fascinating and Important read
May 3 2012
By Jim Lenox
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
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 has twisted our relationship with our government. This book combines the haphazard and urgent play by play of securing the skies of america with the swelling and excess of our newest branch of government and what emerges is a surprising and riveting tale.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
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More than you expect
April 25 2012
By BPC
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Format:Hardcover
Kip Hawley does an amazing job of pulling back the curtain on aviation security. The book takes a never before seen look at a relevant, timely, and important subject - the safety of American air travel - in an unparalleled way. You'll read about the terrorist who are constantly plotting to bring down airliners and the operatives, at home and abroad, who are dead set on stopping them. Permanent Emergency is a must read for anyone who wants to learn more about what really goes into keeping the traveling public safe, or those who think they know all there is to know. Hawley and Means do an excellent job of weaving together a compelling narrative that will blow your doors off. Expect a movie out of this one - it's that informative, entertaining, and compelling.
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