It has been nearly twenty years since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security during the Obama administration and the third in the department’s history, Janet Napolitano joins the Council to discuss what we have accomplished since that awful day, where the critical security gaps remain, and where dangerous new ones have opened—and how to close them.
Since 9/11, terrorism has evolved—now homeland security faces threats such as cyber-intrusions into U.S. elections and into other areas of critical infrastructure, including our energy, financial and communications networks, as well as mass violence, such as the recent massacres at a Pittsburgh synagogue, Las Vegas hotel, and Parkland High School, among many, many others.
Join the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia to learn more about why Secretary Napolitano argues that political blind spots abound in homeland security.
