Featuring: Ted Sorensen, former special counsel and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, and author of Counselor Sidney Blumenthal, fellow, Center on Law and Security, former senior adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton, and former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.…

SPEAKER BIOS Lawrence Wright is a Fellow at the Center on Law and Security, an author, playwright, and screenwriter, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.  His book on Al Qaeda, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf, 2006), won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction and was named…

Hosted by The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law, co-sponsored by The New America Foundation KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY AMBASSADOR RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE As the U.S. engages in a simmering war as well as in continued attempts at building infrastructure, the conference will consider a wide-ranging set of questions in order to clarify policy…

At al Qaeda 3.0, leading policy makers, law enforcement officials, scholars and journalists from around the world will assess the current threat posed by al Qaeda and its affiliates to the United States, Europe, the Middle East and South Asia. The conference speakers will also explore what steps the next administration should take in combating…

SPEAKER BIOS Richard Falkenrath is the Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism at the New York Police Department. He is a graduate of Occidental College, with degrees in economics and international relations. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. From September 1993 until December…

SPEAKER BIOS Barton Gellman is a Pulitzer Prize winning national correspondent on leave from The Washington Post. His new book for Penguin Press on Vice President Cheney, expands on his co-authored “Angler” series in The Post (www.washingtonpost.com/cheney). He is also fellow at the Center on Law and Security and the special projects reporter on the national…

SPEAKERS Joshua Dratel is an attorney in New York City who practices criminal defense law in the state and federal courts.  In his 25 years as a lawyer, his practice has included a wide range of matters, including “white collar,” “organized crime,” drugs, sex offenses, and capital cases.  He is a past President of the New…

Featuring: Philippe Sands, author and professor of Law at University College, London Scott Horton, legal affairs writer, Harper’s Magazine About Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values Beyond the infamous memo signed by Donald Rumsfeld, what do we really know about the torture that the U.S. government has signed off on? Philippe…