Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Attack.(Book review)
Security Management, July, 2007 by Ervin, Clark Kent; Reese, Lloyd F.
****# Open Target: Where America is Vulnerable to Attack. By Clark Kent Ervin; published by Palgrave Macmillian, www.palgraveusa.com (Web); 231 pages; $24.95.
In Open Target, the former Inspector General (IG) of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Clark Kent Ervin, presents a gripping account of how the agency's leaders are failing to deal with the threat of terrorism.
Ervin, who was the agency's first IG, does not limit himself to personal accounts. In this well-documented work, he highlights DHS's deficiencies using his own office's reviews, congressional testimony, media articles, and government reports, covering all areas of homeland security. He uses the obvious example of Hurricane Katrina to support his argument that the government...
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