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Failed Terrorism Investigations, Scapegoating 9/11, and the Shocking Truth about Aviation Security Today
Steerforth
October 2006
On Sale: October 3, 2006
296 pages
ISBN: 158642128X
EAN: 9781586421281
Hardcover
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We may be less safe flying today than we were before 9/11,
and we have spent billions of dollars in tax money going
backward. Unsafe at Any Altitude goes behind the scenes at
our nation’s airports and penetrates the government to paint
a picture of a Transportation Security Administration that
is remarkably inept, and reveals the great lengths that U.S.
carriers and their lobbyists have gone in order to make
certain that serious airline security has not been
instituted in this country. Susan and Joseph Trento also
trace the evolution of security failures along a continuum
that led directly to 9/11: the hijackings of passenger jets
to Cuba decades ago, Iran- Contra, Hezbollah’s bombing of
the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, its hijacking of TWA
flight 847, the Pan Am Flight 103 Lockerbie tragedy. These
and numerous other episodes exposed vulnerabilities in our
nation’s policies and practices that we failed to heed.
9/11 has resulted in the creation of massive new law
enforcement bureaucracies and programs, and a sense of
vigilance has certainly arisen among the American public.
The Trentos’ disturbing investigation reveals, however, that
many key aspects of what went wrong on 9/11 have never been
carefully examined, rendering meaningful reform impossible.
For instance, the TSA was created to replace the low-wage
private screeners who once guarded our airports. But no
investigative body, including the 9/11 Commission, has ever
concluded that the private screening firms contributed to
9/11 by failing to do their jobs, and this book reveals for
the first time the breathtaking story of the Bush
administration’s concerted effort to deflect blame onto
those private companies. Inspired by the belief that true
vigilance is impossible without an honestly informed
citizenry, Unsafe at Any Altitude shines the bright light of
truth on past and present practices that have remained in
the dark for far too long.
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