2007 Events
September 27, 2007
Breakfast Program: David Kris, former Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Modernization: The Foreign Surveillance Act of 1978 (Redlined to Reflect Amendments
After 9/11/01)
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Running time ~45 minutes
Aug. 9-14, 2007
San Francisco, CA
Careers in National Security Law Panel Discussion and Q&A Session
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August 10, 2007
Moderator Harvey Rishikof addresses audience with former Standing Committee chair Dean Elizabeth Parker as panelist.
GWOT vs. SAVE
A New Legal Framework? Is it a Global War on Terrorism or a Struggle Against Violent Extremism?
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July 17, 2007
Careers in National Security Law Program Listen(running time ~90 minutes)
June 28, 2007
Breakfast Program: Seymour Hersh, Investigative Journalist
"The Role of the Reporter Inside the National Security Apparatus"
Seymour Hersh's work has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards. His talks "draw audiences into the often shadowy world where America's official foreign policy stance meets the reality of politics and power in other parts of the world."
May 17, 2007
Breakfast Program: Dr. Wendy Hall, Director, Bioterrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Science & Technology Policy, Office of Policy Development, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
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Running time ~45 minutes
May 10-11, 2007
Conference on International Networks and Homeland Security
Keynote Address by the Honorable Christiaan Mark Johan Kroner, Dutch Ambassador, delivered Thursday, May 10, 2007 before the ABA Conference on International Networks and Homeland Security. "Counterterrorism Strategies from an International Law and Policy Perspective"
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April 25, 2007
Breakfast Program: Michael Posner, President, Human Rights First
"A Discussion of the Rules for Interrogation for CIA and Private Military Contractors"
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Running time ~45 minutes
March 29, 2007
Special Program:
Responding to the Department of Justice Inspector General's Report on the Use of National Security Letters
Moderator: Suzanne Spaulding, Principal, Bingham Consulting Group
Panelists: Valerie Caproni, General Counsel, FBI
Andrew McCarthy, Senior Fellow, Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
Jeffrey H. Smith, Partner, Arnold & Porter and former General Counsel, CIA
Michael Vatis, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson and former Associate Deputy Attorney General
Spike Bowman, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Technology & National Security Policy, NDU
Read the Department of Justice Inspector General's report on National Security Letters.
March 29, 2007
Breakfast Program: Joel Brenner, National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX) and Mission Manager for Counterintelligence
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Running time ~45 minutes
The National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States, 2007
Key Legislative Provisions
January 3, 2007
Breakfast Program: John Yoo, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
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Running time ~45 minutes