Featuring: Daniel Benjamin Max Boot Peter Bergen Patrick Clawson Steve Coll Steven Cook Noah Feldman Fawaz Gerges Karen Greenberg Stephen Holmes Toby Craig Jones Farhad Kazemi W. Patrick Lang Dafna Linzer Salameh Nematt Paul Pillar Barnett Rubin Steve Simon Craig Unger Lawrence Wright Schedule of Events 9:15-9:45 a.m. Opening Remarks 10:00-11:15 a.m. The Proxy War:
Author, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion Along with Neil MacFarquhar's Review in the New York Times
Featuring: Jane Mayer Richard Slotkin Tony Lagouranis Stephen Holmes Karen Greenberg
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