There is no question that you cannot govern in a fish bowl. Some secrecy is necessary. But I think we have gone to such an extreme that it has reached a startling stage.

John Dean

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Events

PROSECUTING TERRORISM: THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE

At NYU's Villa La Pietra campus in Florence, Italy

May 25-26, 2006

La PietraParticipants included: Judge Baltasar Garzón of Spain, Judge Jean-Louis Bruguière of France, Judge Armando Spataro of Italy, Scotland Yard's Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Antiterrorism, Peter Clarke, former National Security Council member, Roger Cressey, CNN terrorism correspondent and author, Peter Bergen as well as many more.

 

The topics at this year's conference included:

Lessons Learned: New York, London, Madrid; Lessons Learned: Al Qaeda and the Radicalization of Islam; A Comparison of Secrecy and Democracy in Europe and the United States; Cooperation and Coordination of Terrorism and Security; and Black Sites in Europe as a Transfer Point for Renditions.