Terry D. Turchie is a former Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division of the FBI. The co-author of Hunting the American Terrorist: The FBI's War on Homegrown Terror (2007), he was the driving force behind the capture of the two most elusive and solitary domestic terrorists in U.S. history: The Unabomber and Eric Robert Rudolph.

Dr. Kathleen M. Puckett spent 23 years as an FBI Special Agent, where she was primarily involved in the investigation and analysis of cases involving foreign counterintelligence and domestic and international terrorism. The co-author of Hunting the American Terrorist: The FBI's War on Homegrown Terror (2007), she was the primary behavioral expert during the UNABOM investigation between 1994 and 1998. She also assisted FBI Inspector Terry Turchie in the investigation of Eric Rudolph in North Carolina in 1998, and received the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service the same year.

They are the co-authors of the acclaimed new book is Homeland Insecurity: How Washington Politicians Have Made America Less Safe.

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Homeland Insecurity: How Washington Politicians Have Made America Less Safe

Posted October 15, 2008 | 05:18 PM (EST)


We both had great careers in the FBI. We were recipients of the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service for finally catching the Unabomber, as well as the FBI Director's Award for Excellence. After retirement, we took executive positions in counterintelligence and counterterrorism for the Department of Energy at Lawrence...

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