"With penetrating intellect, pragmatic sensibility, and broad counter-terrorism experience, Stewart Baker provides chilling insights into the terrifying threats presented by ever-more-high-tech terrorism, the maddening inadequacy of our defenses, and the lobbies responsible for this inadequacy. He recounts in vivid detail how the same entrenched business interests, bureaucratic turf wars, and anti-American Euro-bureaucrats that helped pave the way for 9/11 have continued to oppose policies that would make us safer. Especially devastating is Baker’s portrayal of the deeply misguided “privacy lobby” who insist on perpetuating security dangers in order to avert highly improbable governmental abuses. This despite the exponentially increasing likelihood of cyber-attacks “that could leave us without power, money, petroleum, or communications for months” and biological attacks 'equivalent to a nuclear detonation.'"
--Stuart Taylor, columnist for National Journal, Contributing Editor for Newsweek, and Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution
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