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September 2010
Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist; a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C; a research fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security and CNN’s national security analyst. Bergen has written about al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and counterterrorism for a range of American newspapers and magazines including…
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Obama and the 9/11 Trials: A Conversation on Security, Justice, and Realism Video available on CSPAN Speaker Bios Colonel Morris Davis served as a judge advocate in the United States Air Force from October 1983 until he retired as a Colonel in October 2008. From September 2005 until October 2007, he was the Chief Prosecutor for the Military…
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Video from this event is available here. SPEAKER BIOS Glenn Greenwald is a columnist for Salon.com, and previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York. He is the author of two New York Times Bestselling books: How Would a Patriot Act? (May, 2006), a critique of the Bush administration’s use of executive power, and…
Find out moreSpeaker Bios Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist; a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C; a research fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security and CNN’s national security analyst. Bergen has written about al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and counterterrorism for a range of American newspapers and…
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A One-Man Performance by Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Presented by The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law for one night only! Thursday, December 3rd 8:00 p.m. 3 Legged Dog Media and Theater Group, 80 Greenwich St. (between Rector and Edgar Streets) Following…
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Featuring Lt. Col. John Nagl (Ret.), president, Center for a New American Security David Kilcullen, The Crumpton Group Janine Davidson, U.S. Department of Defense Roger Cressey, Good Harbor Consulting, former NSC Staff Member Michael Sheehan, Torch Hill Partners, former Deputy for Counterterrorism, NYPD Peter Bergen, CNN Terrorism Analyst, author of The Osama bin Laden I…
Find out moreOne of the nation’s leading constitutional theorists, Philip Bobbitt’s interests include not only constitutional law but also international security and the history of strategy. He has published seven books: Tragic Choices (with Calabresi) (Norton, 1978), Constitutional Fate (Oxford, 1982), Democracy and Deterrence: U.S. Nuclear Strategy (with Freedman and Treverton) (St. Martin’s, 1989), Constitutional Interpretation (Blackwell,…
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SPEAKER BIOS Hooman Majd is the author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran. He was born in Tehran, Iran in 1957, and lived abroad from infancy with his family who was in the diplomatic service. He has written for GQ, Newsweek, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New…
Find out moreSPEAKER BIOS Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and blogger whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Huffington Post, Salon.com, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is a senior writer for The Daily Beast and a writing fellow for the Nation Institute. His book, Republican Gomorrah:…
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SPEAKER BIOS Joshua Dratel is an attorney in New York City, and practices criminal defense law in the state and federal courts. In his 28 years as a lawyer, his practice has included a wide range of matters, including “white collar,” “organized crime,” drugs, sex offenses, and capital cases. Mr. Dratel has been defense counsel in…
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