Willful Neglect: The Dangerous Illusion of Homeland Security

by Charles S. Faddis

Are We Really Any Safer than on 9/11?

A top veteran CIA operative scrutinizes the preparedness of  America’s critical infrastructure—from nuclear power plants to water treatment facilities. What he finds will terrify you.

“To an America that has gone to sleep long since 9/11,  Willful Neglect will serve as a wake-up call,
a resounding alarm alerting everyone to the very real threats we face from an enemy committed to attacking us, again and again. Based on decades of experience as one of the CIA’s top counter-terror operators, no one is more qualified than Charles Faddis to help us see our vulnerabilities and show every American what can be done to reduce them.”

—John Giduck, President, Archangel Anti-Terror Group and author of Terror at Beslan

 

“Well researched and written with sophistication, Willful Neglect is a crucially important yet wholly disturbing depiction of gullibility and greed. Faddis points to the pervasive diversion of resources from genuine security needs by those hyping pork-barrel projects and lucrative new ‘security’ wares, and he takes on the industries and regulators aggressively seeking to save money by shirking their responsibilities to defend predeployed mass weapons among hundreds of poorly defended chemical, bio-weapon, and nuclear facilities against a host of feasible attacks.”

—Jim Warren, Executive Director of NC WARN, a nuclear power watchdog organization

Genres: Terrorism, Nonfiction

240 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

A retired CIA officer and author. Spent twenty years undercover in the Near East, South Asia and Southern Europe. Took the first CIA team into Iraq in advance of the 2003 invasion. Retired as head of CIA's WMD terrorism unit.

Author of six books, three works of non-fiction and three novels.

Lives near Annapolis, Maryland. Spends his free time writing, sailing, traveling and reading.

Still consults for the Intelligence Community.