With George Packer, Staff Writer, The New Yorker, and author of The Assassin's Gate: America in Iraq

Featuring: Stephen Flynn, Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations and Author, Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation

Part Two of the CLS Series, America Faces the Future Featuring: Frank Anderson, former CIA Near East Division Chief Elaine Cassel, attorney, professor, Concord University School of Law Joshua Dratel, attorney, co-editor, The Torture Papers Noah Feldman, Cecilia Goetz Professor of Law, NYU School Of Law Bart Gellman, special projects reporter, The Washington Post Jack

Featuring Craig Unger, author, and writer, Vanity Fair

Speaker Bios Rand Beers served as the National Security adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign. Previously he spent 35 years as a senior civil servant. After serving as a Marine officer and rifle company commander in Vietnam, he entered the Foreign Service in 1971 and the Civil Service in 1983. From 1988-98, Mr. Beers served

Speaker Bios Suzanne Maloney, an expert on Iran, the Persian Gulf States, energy, and economic reform, is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Maloney is a former member of the U.S. State Department's Policy Planning Staff where she worked on Iran, the Persian Gulf, and

About the Speaker Richard A. Posner is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform (2006) and Preventing

Featuring: Viet Dinh Joshua Dratel Baltasar Garzón Judge Kenneth Karas Adam Liptak Andy McCarthy Lt. Com. Charles Swift Lawrence Wright Dina Temple-Raston Benjamin Weiser Michael Sheehan David Bowker Gabor Rona Susan Hirsch Bart Gellman Schedule of Events 9:15-9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks 9:30-10:45 a.m. The Paradigm: War vs. Crime 10:45-12:00 p.m. Terrorism Investigations and National Security

SPEAKER BIOS Peter Bergen is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C; an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University; a research fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security; CNN's terrorism analyst and author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret

SPEAKER BIOS David Cole served as a law clerk to Judge Arlin M. Adams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit after graduating from Yale Law School. Professor Cole then became a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights where he litigated a number of major First Amendment cases. He continues