Debra Burlingame

Co-Founder of the 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America, and Keep America Safe.

Debra Burlingame is the sister of Charles F. “Chic” Burlingame, III, pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. She is the co-founder of 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America and a co-founder, along with Liz Cheney and William Kristol, of Keep America Safe. She has testified before Congress on aviation security and has written for the Wall Street Journal and other national publications on national security issues. She is a board member of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum Foundation.

Debates Featuring Debra Burlingame

Should U.S. Airports Use Racial And Religious Profiling?

With Hassan Abbas, Robert Baer, Debra Burlingame, Michael Chertoff, Deroy Murdock, Asra Q. Nomani

November 22, 2010

On Christmas Day, 2009, twenty-three-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to blow up Northwest Airlines Flight 253 using explosives hidden in his underwear. A string of missed opportunities and errors by government security agencies culminated in what President Obama would declare a “systemic failure.” Is scanning everyone with expensive, high-tech equipment the best use of limited resources? Or should we use the information that we have—the knowledge that, while not all Muslims are terrorists, most terrorists are Muslim.

Should U.S. Airports Use Racial And Religious Profiling?

With Hassan Abbas, Robert Baer, Debra Burlingame, Michael Chertoff, Deroy Murdock, Asra Q. Nomani

November 22, 2010

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