Unsafe at Any Altitude

Failed Terrorism Investigations, Scapegoating 9/11,
and the Shocking Truth about Aviation Security Today

Susan B. Trento and Joseph J. Trento

As seen on 60 Minutes

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 inside the government and paints a remarkably inept picture of a Transportation Security Administration. Susan and Joseph Trento reveal that U.S. carriers have succeeded in using their force of lobbyists to make certain serious airline security is never invoked in this country.

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 behind the scenes 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 to avoid the wrath of the American people.
  • 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, that 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 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.

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