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Fortress America : On The Front Lines Of Homeland Security, An Inside Look At The Coming Surveillance State

Attribution
Matthew Brzezinski
Publication Details
Book, Bantam Books, 2004
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(UPPER LEVEL) UA23 .B78465 2004 AVAILABLE
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Description
The result is this startling, sometimes controversial look at what it will take to achieve genuine homeland security and what it may be like to live inside Fortress America Is this what a safe America will look like? From an unheeded warning six years before the WTC disaster to dramatic war-game scenarios secretly conducted at Andrews Air Force Base and chilling on-site simulations of actual attacks, Fortress America paints a sobering picture of the future of freedom?and what life may be like in a maximum security state. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Brzezinski, Matthew, 1965-
Subject
Notes
- "One of the few journalists to penetrate the new counterterror initiative, Matthew Brzezinski offers an insider’s look at the new technology, laws, tactics, and persistent vulnerabilities of the post-9/11 era. The result is this startling, sometimes controversial look at what it will take to achieve genuine homeland security and what it may be like to live inside."–BOOK JACKET
Contents
- Prologue : "a failure of imagination"
- 1. Imagination unbound
- 2. The maximum security state
- 3. The surveillance state
- 4. Enemy of the state
- 5. The threat matrix : executive decision
- 6. Terrorist games : the first responders
- 7. Germs amok : biowarriors in the ER
- 8. Bureaucrats on the barricades
- 9. The scientific sentinels
- 10. Cogs in the machine
- Epilogue : losing altitude
ISBN
- 0553803662
- 9780553803662
LCCN
- 2004558182
Open Library ID
- /b/OL7850543M