Author: Stewart A. Baker
Publisher: Hoover Institution Pre
Keywords: hoover, inst, press, publication, terrorism, tomorrow’s, stilts, aren’t, stopping, skating
Number of Pages: 375
Published: 2010-06-15
ISBN-10: 0817911545
ISBN-13: 9780817911546

In the years after 9/11, officials scrambled to rethink security at the border and in the air--while privacy groups and foreign governments did their best to stop and then roll back security measures. As a result, we have only partially closed gaping security holes. Worse, the resistance has made it all but impossible to head off other disasters that are inherent in new technologies such as computer networks and biotech. In Skating on Stilts, Stewart A. Baker draws on his experience at Homeland Security to give the reader a ringside seat as the battle unfolds. In a lively memoir, he describes