Chasing Phantoms: Reality, Imagination, and Homeland Security Since 9/11

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181 INDEX Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk, 146 Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities. See Gilmore Commission AIDS. See HIV/AIDS All-hazards planning, 60–63 Al-Qaeda, 12, 16, 49, 127–30, 147 Altman, Robert, 73 Amoss, Ulius Louis, 128 Anthrax letters, ix, 150, 165 (n. 11) Atta, Mohammed, 16 Aum Shinrikyo, 4, 33, 139; scientists in, 77–78 Beam, Louis, 128 Beck, Ulrich, 25, 99–100, 121–22 Benet, Stephen Vincent: “By the Waters of Babylon,” 75 Bin Laden, Osama: cave of, 77 Biometrics, 38–39 Blanco, Kathleen, 58 Bond, James, 76 Bruey, Judith L., 114 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, 145 Bush, George W., 47 Bybee, Jay S., 47 Catastrophic Incident Annex, 57–59 Chertoff, Michael, 44, 51, 82, 89, 109, 148–49 CIA, 48–49, 89, 141 Civil defense, 61 Clarke, Lee, 57 Clarke, Richard A., 112 Closed-circuit television (CCTV), 5, 45–46, 53 Cohen, Stanley, 96–100, 103, 104, 106, 110, 134; Folk Devils and Moral Panics, 96, 99, 103 Cole, Thomas, 74–75 Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation and Terrorism, x Conspiracy theories, 10, 71–73 Convention Against Torture, 47 Corwin, Edward S., 143–44 Dangers, 120 Department of Homeland Security: mission statement, 62; and border control, 83; establishment of, 107; priorities of, 182 Index 131; new campus of, 141; and border barrier, 148 Director of National Intelligence, 127, 146 Disasters: anthropogenic, 20–22; natural, 21–22; “disaster obsessions,” 29–33; as construct, 33–35 Disease fears, 85–88 Disenchantment of the world, 13–18, 92–93 Earth First!, 114 Earth Liberation Front, 114 Environmental terrorism, 114 Erikson, Kai, 87, 89, 110–12 Evil Incarnate (Frankfurter), 97, 101, 103 Experts, 121–22; on evil, 100, 103, 106, 110, 135 Falwell, Jerry, 70–71 FBI, 145 Fear of terrorism, 123–24 Federal Emergency Management Agency. See FEMA Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), 83 Feltus, Edward, 116 FEMA, 56–57, 66, 145 Folk devils, 97–99, 101 Folk Devils and Moral Panics (Cohen), 96, 99, 103 Frankfurter, David, 100–102, 103, 106, 110, 135; Evil Incarnate, 97, 101, 103 Gilmore Commission, 107 Gray, Colin, 150 Guantanamo Bay, 47–48, 89, 148 Hagee, John, 70 Hart-Rudman Commission, 107 Hayden, Michael, 127 Hazard, 24–25 H5N1 flu, 32 Hirst, Damien, 71 HIV/AIDS, 31, 85–87 Hoffman, Bruce, 129–30 Homeland Security Advisory System, 17, 107–10, 141 Homeland Security Presidential Directives : Directive 5 (HSPD-5), 59–60, 61, 64; Directive 8 (HSPD-8), 60; Directive 3 (HSPD-3), 108 H1N1 flu, 149 Humphreys, Margaret, 88 Hunter (Pierce), 115 Hurricane Katrina: role of Michael Brown in response to, 55–56; role of Michael Chertoff in response to, 56–59; role of National Response Plan in, 57–59; consequences of, 66–67 Immigration, 83–85 Immigration and Nationality Act, 83 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, 140, 145 Invisibility: intentional, 3–8; technical, 5; crowd, 6–8; functiona1, 7; attributed, 8–11; created, 113 Ivins, Bruce E., 150 Jensen, Richard Bach, 49 Johannesburg Principles, 49 Juergensmeyer, Mark: Terror in the Mind of God, 102 Kaplan, Jeffrey, 129 Kennedy, John F., 111 Kerr, Donald, 51–52 Krar, William J., 114–18 Krugman, Paul, 116 Landscape of fear, 68–69, 138 Lane, Anthony, 74 Lang, Fritz, 75 Lara, Maria Pia, 15 Leaderless Jihad (Sageman), 127–30 Leaderless resistance, 128–29 Index 183 Le Bon, Gustave, 88 Local knowledge, 120–21 Loevinger, Lee, 47 McConnell, Michael, 127 McDavid, Eric, 113–14, 117 Metropolis (film), 75, 76 Mimetic performance, 101 Moral panics, 98–99, 101, 110, 134–36 Mueller, John, 17, 93, 105–6, 135–36 Mumbai, x Muslims, radicalization of, 146–47 Nagin, Ray, 56, 59 Napolitano, Janet, 141 Narratives: 121; of centralized control, 124–26, 130–32, 136; of emergent behavior, 125, 130–32, 136; as templates, 133–34 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States. See 9/11 Commission National Counterterrorism Center, 109, 146 National Intelligence Estimate, 127, 129–30 National Office for Combating Terrorism , 107 National Response Framework, 66 National Response Plan (NRP), 56–57, 59–60. See also Hurricane Katrina National Security Agency (NSA), 141, 143 National Strategy for Homeland Security, 63–65 Nativism, 83–85 New York City: destruction of, 74–76, 78–79 9/11 attacks, 32, 111 9/11 Commission, 16 NORTHCOM, 109, 141, 145 Northern Command. See NORTHCOM Orozco, Jose Clemente, 75 Page, Max, 74, 79 Partridge, Christopher, 14 Peters, Pete...