NSA Surveillance Leaks: Facts and Fiction
Sponsored by the American Bar Association
Standing Committee on Law and National Security
Tuesday, June 25, 2013 | 4:00 p.m.— 5:30 p.m.
Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,
Knight Studio, Washington, DC
*Please do not arrive earlier than 3:30 p.m. You must enter using
the "Group Entrance" on C Street.
If you cannot attend in person, you can also watch and participate in the discussion live at www.newseum.org.
The NSA PRISM program has emerged from the shadows as a result of disclosure made by Edward Snowden, an NSA contract employee. Information and misinformation has been reported in the media. The first round of disclosures have touched the hot button topics of government secrecy, intrusion into American citizens' privacy interests, and the beginning of the era of Big Data. National security and protecting privacy are becoming the central interests of the emerging technological revolution. How do democracies and emerging democracies create frameworks for these vital interests?
This is an unique opportunity for you to engage in the discussion and understanding of: the Prism statutory scheme and objective (fact and fiction), privacy concerns, the new era of Big Data and data collection, how data is used to protect U.S. national security interests, and the way forward: a review of current statutory regimes - are new laws needed?
RSVP by June 24 to ahampton@freedomforum.org
Welcome by James Duff, President and Chief Executive Officer, Freedom Forum & Chief Executive Officer, Newseum and Diversity Institute
Introduction by Laurel Bellows, President, American Bar Association
Moderator:
Harvey Rishikof, Chair, ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security Advisory Committee
Panelists:
Spike Bowman, Professorial Lecturer, George Washington University & Former Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive
Joel Brenner, Principal, Joel Brenner LLC & Former Inspector General, National Security Agency
Kate Martin, Director, Center for National Security Studies
Gene Policinski, Executive Director, First Amendment Center
Ellen Shearer, William F. Thomas Professor of Journalism and Co-Director, Medill National Security Journalism Initiative