Unsafe at any Altitude: Failed Terrorism Investigations, Scapegoating 9/11, and the Shocking Truth about Aviation Security Today | 
| Authors: Susan B. Trento, Joseph J. Trento
Publisher: Steerforth
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Pages: 296
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ISBN: 158642128X
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.325938770973
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ASIN: 158642128X
Publication Date: October 3, 2006
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Product Description
If you think you are safe getting on a plane in the United States . . . THINK AGAIN
Unsafe at Any Altitude reveals for the first time:
• That Saudi intelligence, on which the United States relied for information about Al Qaeda, was penetrated by the terrorist group long before 9/11. Information provided by the Saudis lulled the president and his team into believing they had Al Qaeda under meaningful watch.
• What the 9/11 Commission did not share with the public, including the probability that weapons were put on planes in advance by exploiting security vulnerabilities at airports. To this day, while passengers are forced to stand in line, hundreds of thousands of airport workers remain unsearched and unscreened.
• How the White House and Justice Department created a diversion to place blame for the 9/11 attacks and avoid the wrath of the American people.
• How a partnership the United States made in the 1980s with Iran and Hezbollah terrorists who killed and kidnapped hundreds of Americans and hijacked our planes contributed to a sequence of events that made 9/11 possible.
• That the FBI, CIA, NSA, and Department of Homeland Security refuse to give the airlines an accurate no-fly list, thereby allowing the world’s most threatening terrorists to continue to fly.
Unsafe at Any Altitude will help readers tell the difference between the eye candy of sharp uniforms on federal officers and what would amount to effective security at our airports.
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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 As impossible to put down as John Grisham. September 2, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is superbly written, the prose is gripping and hard to put down. I finished this book in one day and was drawn in page after page. It focuses a lot on Argenbright Security, the company which privately handled airport security in numerous cities before the invention of the incompetent TSA, and details how it was scapegoated for the incompetency of numerous federal agencies.
Further, it details the uselessness of the "No Fly" list which is as worthless as the Arizona Navy.
This book will challenge any notions of airport and airline safety you may have, this book carefully details the relationship of 80's Beirut, the CIA's complicit machinations in Lebanon and how it intentionally and inadvertently created the aircraft hijacking as a political tool by middle eastern terrorists.
If you think this sound ridiculous, challenge my characterization and read the book for yourself.
A professional analysis March 8, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book offers a professional analysis and it brings the aviation terrorism phenomenon into the front of the stage, by highlighting some evidence regarding some of the major aviation terrorism incidents of the pase decades. As an academic researcher of aviation terrorism, this book certainly may be useful for those who are interestd in the 'story behaind the story'.
Dr. Hillel Avihai
 Read with Care January 1, 2007
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
Much of the info in this book is fact. However, assumptions are made to fill in the fact gaps. Even what they call "truth" is sometimes assumption or just plain wrong. The authors offer some ideas on improving airport security, but you have to figure that they have already been considered by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Billions wasted to look good December 2, 2006
11 out of 15 found this review helpful
It costs a lot for responsible government officials to play the game: Don't blame me don't blame you -- blame that fellow behind the tree. The author's tell you how that game was played in respose to 9/11. And because this billion dollar game was played with the screeners at airports, the extra billions of dollars spent are not providing any more safety than before 9/11. But the mind set of the post 9/11 air traveling public must make us safer. The passengers now know if they fight for the control of the plane there is a chance for life -- if they don't fight death is certain.
an important book to read October 10, 2006
24 out of 26 found this review helpful
I saw the advance publicity for the "60 Minutes" report last night and
went out to get a copy of "Unsafe at any Altitude," the book the report was based on. Not only did this book's authors, Susan
and Joseph Trento, obtain the copy of the no-fly list that "60 Minutes"
used as the basis of its report, but that list is only one of many interesting revelations as this book explores how flawed
our aviation security system is.
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