Unsafe at Any Altitude: Failed Terrorism Investigations, Scapegoating 9/11, and the Shocking Truth about Aviation Security Today Hardcover - 2006

Media reviews

THE BOOK THAT REVEALED THE NO-FLY LIST ON 60 MINUTES

"An important new book, Unsafe at Any Altitude, highlights a number of glaring holes in aviation security that were supposed to have been plugged after the 9/11 attacks and the creation of the Transportation Security Administration."
— U.S. News & World Report


"Susan and Joseph Trento, who have used the lens of investigative journalism to write several books on the ins and outs of federal government, spend most of their latest book, 'Unsasfe at Any Altitude,' outlining in great and captivating detail every...possible omission and profit-tinged venture that keep our airports and our planes open to terrorism... They write that the major problem with airport security both before and since Sept. 11 lies not with the screener on the ground but with the country's 'sloppy and arrogant' intelligence agencies and the way they fail to properly collect information and communicate with one another... 'Unsafe at Any Altitude' tracks the contradiction between the governmental line on terrorism and real-world politics and commerce...'Unsafe at Any Altitude' makes a very convincing argument that, despite all the money and attention spent in the last five years, our airport security system remains porous...[A] persuasive argument of a book."
— Los Angeles Times

"The authors - she's a former congressional staffer, he's a former CNN reporter- say five years after 9/11, no-fly lists are out of date, [and] mismanaged. The book takes readers beind the scenes at big-city airports and inside what they term 'the remarkably inept' Transportation Security Administration. "
— The Boston Herald