They Just Don't Get It: How Washington Is Still Compromising Your Safety--and What You Can Do about It

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Crown Publishing Group, 2006 - Fiction - 272 pages
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Colonel David Hunt has dedicated his career to fighting terrorism. A U.S. Army veteran for nearly thirty years, he has helped take out an active terrorist camp, trained the FBI and Special Forces in counterterrorism tactics, and served as security adviser to six different Olympic Games.

And Colonel Hunt is angry. Why? Because even after the attacks on our country and on Americans around the world, the people charged with protecting us--the politicians and the bureaucrats in the military and in intelligence--still aren't getting the job done. In They Just Don't Get It, you'll learn:

* How many of the government's recent "reforms" are actually counterproductive

* How we can fight this war and still safeguard our civil liberties and the American way of life

* What you can do to keep your family safe

* How to fix the intelligence disaster (and yes, the politicians in D.C. still haven't fixed it)

As politicians posture and pundits bicker, we're losing sight of the problem: We're still not equipped to win the war on terror. Hunt shows us there are changes we can make at every level--as individual citizens, as a government, and as a military power--in order to win the war on terror and ensure our survival as a free, proud, and strong nation.

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Contents

Terror in Your Living Room
1
How in the Name of God Did We Get Here?
13
Just Who the Hell Is Trying to Kill Us?
39
Copyright

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About the author (2006)

Colonel David Hunt, U.S. Army (Ret.), has extensive operational experience in counterterrorism, special operations, and intelligence operations. He is a designated terrorism expert in federal court, having testified at many major terrorist trials, and has lectured at the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency, and Harvard University. A military analyst for the Fox News Channel, he frequently provides commentary on radio programs hosted by Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Alan Colmes, Michael Savage, Monica Crowley, and others. Colonel Hunt, a senior research fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, lives in Maine with his family.

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