Homeland Insecurity: How Washington Politicians Have Made America Less Safe: How National Security Has Been Compromised for the Sake of Political Advantage - Hardcover

Turchie, Terry D; Puckett, Kathleen M

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1933909331 ISBN 13: 9781933909332

Publisher: History Publishing Company llc, 2007

Synopsis

Many of the same people who inhabited the political jungles of Washington, D.C. during Watergate are still in power today. In their constant jockeying for political power and influence on public opinion, they foster the same ill will and distrust of the FBI they have for 30 years. Their political persecution has not improved the FBI’s performance or insured that Americans are safer today within our borders than we were before the attacks of 9/11. In fact, current partisan political control of the FBI, as well as the public hammering of the Bureau by politicians using the media to broadcast their agendas, has resulted in a disheartening and dangerous paralysis of operations in the Field. In an effort to gratify the White House and Congress, the Bureau has rushed to implement ill-advised and hasty changes in its own structure and the way it does its work. In Homeland Insecurity, authors Terry D. Turchie and Kathleen M. Puckett name politicians from both parties who are responsible for undermining the ability of the FBI to protect Americans from both domestic and international terrorism. They warn readers that purely partisan assaults on the FBI, if unchecked, will destroy the last impartial defender of United States law and the rights of individual citizens in the current terror war.

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About the Authors

Terry Turchie is a recipient of the FBI Director's Award as well as the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service. He is currently the Director for Counterintelligence and Couterterrorism for the University of California at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and speaks to hundreds of corporate and law enforcement groups based on his knowledge of how to solve complex terrorism cases.

Dr Puckett provides behavioural threat assessment consultation to international corporations and governmental security agencies, and is a law enforcement consultant to the Program of Psychiatry and the Law at the University of California at San Francisco. She is a frequent presenter at law enforcement and mental health community forums on both the UNABOM case and the psychology of terrorism.

Edition details

• Publisher: History Publishing Company llc
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933909331
• ISBN 13: 9781933909332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 314