Juliette Kayyem on "Security Mom" and Building a More Resilient Nation
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 6 May 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Last week, Juliette Kayyem joined Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith at the Hoover Book Soiree for a discussion of her new book, Security Mom: An Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our Homeland and Your Home. In their conversation, Kayyem, who served as Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs in the Department of Homeland Security, distills lessons from her years of government service, outlining a number of smart, measureable guidelines that every American citizen can follow in order to enhance their own security preparedness. In her assessment, homeland security begins in the home, and we all have a responsibility to ensure that our families are prepared in the event that the unthinkable happens.
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| 0:29.0 | What I try to do in the book is show the similarities between the two. |
| 0:37.0 | I keep going back to this. We should all be judged by how well we minimize risk, |
| 0:41.0 | maximize our defenses, and maintain our spirit. |
| 0:45.0 | So the phone calls I get now, right, after Belgium and Paris and San Bernardino. |
| 0:51.0 | And a lot of people in our world get these phone calls. |
| 0:53.0 | Should I go to Europe? Should my kids go to Europe? |
| 0:57.0 | I always say to people, there's not going to be some white flag. |
| 1:03.0 | Everything's fine now. Now we get to travel. |
| 1:07.0 | We've always lived in a time of risk and vulnerability, |
| 1:11.0 | even before September 11th. |
| 1:13.0 | Unfortunately, the risk we have now are not existential threats. |
| 1:17.0 | We can begin to prepare ourselves and minimize those risks, |
| 1:21.0 | beginning at home in our communities, in our states, and then the nation. |
| 1:25.0 | And I think part of why I wanted to explain the apparatus, |
| 1:29.0 | what I call the Homeland Security apparatus is, I think there's a lot of misconceptions about it. |
| 1:33.0 | I'm Cody Poplin, and this is a law fair podcast, May 7th, 2016. |
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