How Safe Are We? - by Janet Napolitano (Hardcover)

Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano offers an insightful analysis of American security at home and a prescription for the future. About the Author: Janet Napolitano is a distinguished public servant with a record of leading large complex organizations at the federal and state levels. 240 Pages Political Science Security (National & International) 
 
   Book Synopsis 


 Former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano offers an insightful analysis of American security at home and a prescription for the future. 
 Created in the wake of the greatest tragedy to occur on U.S. soil the Department of Homeland Security was handed a sweeping mandate: make America safer. It would encompass intelligence and law enforcement agencies oversee natural disasters commercial aviation border security and ICE cybersecurity and terrorism among others. From 2009-2013 Janet Napolitano ran DHS and oversaw 22 federal agencies with 230000 employees. 
 In How Safe Are We? Napolitano pulls no punches reckoning with the critics who call it Frankenstein's Monster of government run amok and taking a hard look at the challenges we'll be facing in the future. But ultimately she argues that the huge multifaceted department is vital to our nation's security. An agency that's part terrorism prevention part intelligence agency part law enforcement public safety disaster recove