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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2

8:30 pm EVENING ADDRESS [invitation only]

Mr. John C. (Chris) Inglis retired from the Department of Defense in January 2014 following over 41 years of federal service, including 28 years at NSA and seven and a half years as its senior civilian and Deputy Director. As the NSA Deputy Director, Mr. Inglis acted as the Agency's chief operating officer, responsible for guiding and directing strategies, operations and policy. Mr. Inglis holds advanced degrees in engineering and computer science from Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and the George Washington University. He is also a graduate of the Kellogg Business School executive development program, the USAF Air War College, Air Command and Staff College, and Squadron Officers' School. Mr. Inglis’ military career includes over 30 years of service in the US Air Force -- nine years on active duty and twenty-one years in the Air National Guard - - from which he retired as a Brigadier General in 2006. He holds the rating of Command Pilot and commanded units at the squadron, group, and joint force headquarters levels. Mr. Inglis' significant Awards include the Clements award as the US Naval Academy's Outstanding Military Faculty member (1984), three Presidential Rank Awards (2000, 2004, 2009), the USAF Distinguished Service Medal (2006), the Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Eagle Scout Award (2009), the Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal (2014), and The President’s National Security Medal (2014).

THURSDAY, APRIL 3

8:50 am WELCOME REMARKS

Bobby Chesney is Director of the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law and the Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law. He also serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Law. In 2009, Professor Chesney served in the Justice Department in connection with the Detention Policy Task Force, a body tasked by the president with examining the legal and policy issues associated with the detention and trial of persons captured in combat or counterterrorism operations. He also previously served the Intelligence Community as an associate member of the Intelligence Science Board and as a member of the Advanced Technology Board. In addition to his current positions at the University of Texas, he is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the , a member of the American Law Institute, a senior editor for the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, and a past chair of Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools. He is a co-founder and contributor to www.lawfareblog.com, the leading source for analysis, commentary, and news relating to law and national security. Professor Chesney's scholarship addresses a range of issues relating to law and national security, including military detention, targeting, rendition, criminal prosecution, civil litigation, and covert action. His upcoming projects include two books under contract with Oxford University Press: one examining post-9/11 legal controversies from a historical perspective and another concerning the evolving judicial role in national security affairs. Professor Chesney teaches the UT law school’s core course in National Security Law, a first-year core course in Constitutional Law as well as a variety of upper- level seminars. Professor Chesney is a magna cum laude graduate of both Texas Christian University and . After law school he clerked for the Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and the Honorable Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He then practiced with the firm Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York (litigation) before beginning his academic career with Wake Forest University School of Law. In 2008 he came to the University of Texas School of Law as a visiting professor, and then joined UT on a permanent basis in 2009.

9:00am OPENING ADDRESS

Admiral Bobby R. Inman (Ret.) graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1950, and from the National War College in 1972. He became an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987. He was appointed as a tenured professor holding the Lyndon B. Johnson Centennial Chair in National Policy in August 2001. He served as Interim Dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs from 1 January to 31 December 2005 and again from January 2009 to March 2010. Admiral Inman served in the U.S. Navy from November 1951 to July 1982, when he retired with the permanent rank of Admiral. While on active duty, he served as Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. After retirement from the Navy, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) in Austin, Texas for four years and Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Westmark Systems, Inc., a privately owned electronics industry holding company for three years. Admiral Inman also served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 1987 through 1990. Admiral Inman’s primary activity since 1990 has been investing in start-up technology companies, where he is a Managing Director of Gefinor Ventures and Limestone Ventures. He is a member of the Board of Directors of several privately held companies. He serves as a Trustee of the American Assembly and the California Institute of Technology. He is an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.

9:45am SESSION 1: THE ROLE OF MEDIA

Benjamin Wittes is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of the blog, which is devoted to sober and serious discussion of “Hard National Security Choices,” and is a member of the ’s Task Force on National Security and Law. He is the author of Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor After Guantanamo, published in November 2011, co-editor of Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change, published in December 2011, and editor of Campaign 2012: Twelve Independent Ideas for Improving American Public Policy (Brookings Institution Press, May 2012). He is also writing a book on data and technology proliferation and their implications for security. He is the author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror, published in June 2008 by The Penguin Press, and the editor of the 2009 Brookings book, Legislating the War on Terror: An Agenda for Reform. His previous books include Starr: A Reassessment, published in 2002 by Yale University Press, and Confirmation Wars: Preserving Independent Courts in Angry Times, published in 2006 by Rowman & Littlefield and the Hoover Institution. Between 1997 and 2006, he served as an editorial writer for specializing in legal affairs. Before joining the editorial page staff of The Washington Post, Wittes covered the Justice Department and federal regulatory agencies as a reporter and news editor at Legal Times. His writing has also appeared in a wide range of journals and magazines including , Slate, , The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and First Things. Benjamin Wittes was born in , . He graduated from in 1990, and he has a black belt in taekwondo.

Siobhan Gorman is a reporter for covering terrorism, counter terrorism, intelligence, and cybersecurity, which includes the activities of the sixteen intelligence agencies and the national security threats they aim to combat. Prior to joining the Journal in 2007, Ms. Gorman was a Washington correspondent for The Baltimore Sun covering intelligence and security. From 1998 to 2005 she was a staff correspondent for National Journal covering homeland security, justice, and intelligence; and in 1997 was also a research associate for “Bob Levey’s Washington,” The Washington Post. Ms. Gorman won the 2006 Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence for her coverage of the National Security Agency, and in 2000 received a special citation in national magazine writing from the Education Writers Association. She received her bachelor of arts in government from Dartmouth College and currently resides in Arlington, Virginia.

Shane Harris is an author and magazine journalist. His forthcoming book @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex explores the frontlines of America’s new cyber war. It will be published in November (Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). Shane’s first book, The Watchers, tells the story of five men who played central roles in the creation of a vast national security apparatus and the rise of surveillance in America (Penguin Press, 2010). The Watchers won the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, and the Economist named it one of the best books of 2010. Shane is also the winner of the 2010 Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense. He is currently senior writer at Foreign Policy magazine, where he covers national security, intelligence, and cyber security. He is also a Future Tense Fellow at the New America Foundation. Prior to joining FP, Shane was senior writer at the Washingtonian magazine, and a staff correspondent for National Journal.

Ellen Nakashima is a national security reporter for The Washington Post. She focuses on issues relating to intelligence, surveillance, and civil liberties. She also writes about the intersection of policy and technology in government cyber operations. Ellen served as a Southeast Asia correspondent for the Post from 2002-2006, covering Islamic militant networks and events such as the Indian Ocean tsunami and the SARS outbreak. Since coming to the Post in 1995, she also covered the White House at the close of the Clinton administration, co-authored a biography of Al Gore, and covered Virginia politics. Before arriving at the Post, she wrote for The Hartford Courant and the Quincy, Massachusetts Patriot Ledger. A native of Hawaii, she graduated from The University of California, Berkeley with a degree in humanities, and has a master's degree in international journalism from The City University in London. She spent five years in Italy teaching English, including a year at The University of Bologna. She is married and has one daughter and lives in Washington, DC.

11:00am SESSION 2: NSA IN HISTORICAL AND DIPLOMATIC PERSPECTIVE

Jeremi Suri holds the Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs, and he is a professor in both the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Professor Suri was previously with the University of Wisconsin, where he was the E. Gordon Fox Professor of History, the Director of the European Union Center of Excellence, and the Director of the Grand Strategy Program. He has received numerous awards for his research and teaching. Smithsonian Magazine named him one of America's “Top Young Innovators” in the Arts and Sciences in 2007. Professor Suri is the author of five books, including the widely acclaimed biography of one of America’s most distinguished diplomats, Henry Kissinger and the American Century. Professor Suri’s most recent book, Liberty’s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building from the Founders to Obama, was widely reviewed in , Foreign Affairs, and other international media. Professor Suri is a frequent contributor to these newspapers and magazines, as well as social media. He is now completing a major new book, tentatively titled The Reactive Presidency, on the challenges of formulating strategy in a complex and fast-moving international environment.

Susan Landau works in cybersecurity, privacy, and public policy. She will be joining Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the fall of 2014. Landau has been a senior staff Privacy Analyst at Google, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Wesleyan University. She has held visiting positions at Harvard, Cornell, Yale, and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute. Landau is the author of Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies (MIT Press, 2011), and co-author, with Whitfield Diffie, of Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption (MIT Press, 1998, rev. ed. 2007). She has written numerous papers and op-eds on cybersecurity and encryption policy, and she has testified before Congress on the security risks of wiretapping and on cybersecurity activities at NIST's Information Technology Laboratory. Landau currently serves on the Computer Science Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. Landau was a 2012 Guggenheim fellow, a 2010-2011 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the recipient of the 2008 Women of Vision Social Impact Award, and also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Association for Computing Machinery. She received her BA from Princeton, her MS from Cornell, and her PhD from MIT.

Ambassador Kristen Silverberg is General Counsel and Senior Advisor at the Institute of International Finance, Inc. She previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2008 to 2009 and as Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs from 2005 to 2008. Prior to her time at the State Department, she held a number of senior positions at the White House, including Deputy Assistant to the President and Advisor to the Chief of Staff. She served in 2003 in Baghdad, for which she received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. Ambassador Silverberg formerly practiced law at Williams and Connolly, LLP in Washington, DC and served as a to U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Judge David Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals. She attended Harvard College and the University of Texas School of Law. Ambassador Silverberg serves on the Board of Directors of Vorbeck Materials. In 2009, she was selected by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.

The Honorable James Monnier Simon, Jr. is CEO of i.e. LLC, a privately held management- consulting firm that advises governments, international corporations, and their vendors. Jim was Microsoft’s Chief Strategist for its worldwide public sector before retiring from Microsoft Corporation in 2012. In 2004, he founded the Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments and led its efforts to connect Microsoft’s world-leading advanced research and development activities with the global public sector. Jim has served in the U.S. Army, was a principle negotiator for the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, and, as career CIA officer, was appointed by President Clinton in 1998 as Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Administration. He serves on several corporate boards and governmental advisory groups in the U.S. and abroad. Jim has written extensively on cyber conflict, military history, intelligence, and security. He has presented papers before various professional associations including the Business Executives for National Security, the Operations Research Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and the Kokoda Foundation. He has made numerous public appearances and lectured at civilian universities and military colleges in the U.S. and abroad.

12:15pm LUNCHTIME ADDRESS

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by The Economist. He is the author of 12 books—including Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive—as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter “Crypto-Gram” and blog “Schneier on Security” are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an Advisory Board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. He is also the Chief Technology Officer of Co3 Systems, Inc.

1:45pm SESSION 3: THE 21st CENTURY FOURTH AMENDMENT

Ahmed Ghappour is a Clinical Instructor with the Civil Rights Clinic (formerly the National Security Clinic) at the University of Texas Law School. Ahmed also directs the National Security Defense Project, an access to justice initiative that addresses constitutional issues in national- security and cyber-security prosecutions, particularly those related to electronic surveillance and foreign intelligence gathering. Ahmed’s research is primarily concerned with the interplay between emerging technologies and national security—particularly as demonstrated by the modern surveillance state and the evolution of cyberspace as a theater of war. Before coming to the law school, Ahmed worked with Lt. Cmd. Charles Swift (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld), taking numerous national security cases to trial. Prior to that, he was a Staff Attorney at Reprieve UK, where he represented Guantanamo detainees in their habeas corpus proceedings and challenged the U.S. Extraordinary Renditions Program. Prior to this, he was a patent litigator at Orrick Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP. Formerly, Ahmed was a diagnostics engineer focused on distributed systems architecture and high performance computing. Ahmed is a National Security Committee member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and has been qualified to serve as an expert on national security by courts in the United States and Canada.

Hanni Fakhoury is a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He focuses on criminal law, privacy, and free speech litigation and advocacy. He represents Andrew “” Auernheimer on appeal from his criminal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act conviction, has argued before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on the constitutionality of warrantless cell phone tracking, and serves as co-counsel in a First Amendment challenge to California’s Proposition 35 in federal court. He has written numerous amicus briefs in state and federal courts throughout the country on warrantless police surveillance and , and his writings have been published in the New York Times, Wired, Slate, and JURIST. Hanni has testified before the California state legislature on proposed electronic privacy legislation and is a sought after speaker at legal seminars and conferences on electronic surveillance issues in criminal law. Before joining EFF, Hanni worked as a federal public defender in San Diego where he tried numerous jury and bench trials and argued and won multiple times before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Hanni graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in political science and an honors degree in history. He received his law degree with distinction from Pacific McGeorge School of Law, where he was elected to the Order of Barristers for his excellence in written and oral advocacy.

Benjamin Powell is a partner with the law firm WilmerHale, where his practice focuses on cybersecurity, data breach, privacy, national security, investigations, and international investment issues. Mr. Powell was unanimously confirmed by the as General Counsel to the Director of National Intelligence in 2006. He served as General Counsel to the first three Directors of National Intelligence. Mr. Powell worked closely with Congress to modernize the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, an effort that resulted in passage of a landmark comprehensive bipartisan bill, the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. He previously served as Special Assistant to the President and Associate White House Counsel from 2002 to 2006, where he was extensively involved in work on Intelligence Community-related legislation and intelligence transformation initiatives. Immediately prior to his service at the White House, Mr. Powell was Corporate Counsel for Vitria Technology, an enterprise integration software company in Sunnyvale, CA. Prior to joining Vitria Technology, Mr. Powell practiced law in Washington, DC. Mr. Powell clerked on the United States Supreme Court for Justices John Paul Stevens and Byron White, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit for Judge John M. Walker, Jr. Mr. Powell served in the United States Air Force and worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As an officer in the United States Air Force, Mr. Powell led one of the largest Department of Defense computer network development programs for the Intelligence Community. He also did significant work in support of the United States Space Command Joint Space Intelligence Center, Fleet Intelligence Centers, and United States Central Command and Air Combat Command. Mr. Powell received degrees in applied science from the School of Engineering and Applied Science and in finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his JD degree from Columbia Law School.

2:45pm SESSION 4: THE METADATA DEBATE

Steve Bradbury is a partner in the Washington, DC office of the law firm Dechert LLP, where he has a general litigation, administrative law, and appellate practice. During the Bush administration, Mr. Bradbury was the head of the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) in the Department of Justice, where he served from 2004 until 2009. OLC is the office that advises the President and the Executive Branch on the most difficult questions of law, including constitutional issues. During his tenure in OLC, Mr. Bradbury had occasion to grapple with issues at the interface of national security law, privacy protections, and constitutional liberties, including issues relating to cybersecurity and the authorities of the National Security Agency and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. He led the legal effort for the Justice Department that resulted in the initial FISA court approval of the NSA’s telephone metadata program in 2006, and he was extensively involved in the collaboration between the Executive Branch and Congress that produced the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. In 2011, Mr. Bradbury presented the keynote address on the Developing Legal Framework for Defensive and Offensive Cyber Operations at the Harvard National Security Journal symposium on Cybersecurity: Law, Privacy, and Warfare in a Digital World. Since the disclosures of NSA programs leaked by Edward Snowden in 2013, Mr. Bradbury has written and spoken extensively on the legal bases for these programs and on proposals for changing the programs and reforming FISA authorities. He has delivered testimony on these subjects to Congress and the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Mr. Bradbury served as a law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court and to Judge James Buckley on the DC Circuit. He is a graduate of Michigan Law School and Stanford University.

Jennifer Daskal joined American University Washington College of Law in 2013 as an Assistant Professor of Law. She teaches and writes in the fields of criminal law, national security law, and constitutional law. From 2009-2011, Daskal was counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice and, among other things, served on the Secretary of Defense and Attorney General-led Detention Policy Task Force. Prior to joining DOJ, she was the senior counterterrorism counsel at Human Rights Watch, worked as a staff attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and clerked for the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff. She spent two years before joining WCL’s faculty as a national security law fellow and adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center. Daskal is a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Law School, and Cambridge University, where she was a Marshall Scholar. Recent publications include Pre-Crime Restraints: The Explosion of Targeted, Non-Custodial Prevention, 99 Cornell L. Rev. 327 (2014), After the AUMF, 5 Harvard National Security Journal 115 (2014) (co-authored with Stephen Vladeck), and The Geography of the Battlefield: A Framework for Detention and Targeting Outside the ‘Hot’ Conflict Zone, 171 Penn. L. Rev. 1165 (2013). Daskal has published op- eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, L.A. Times, and Salon.com, and she has appeared on BBC, C-Span, CNN, MSNBC, and NPR, among other media outlets. She is Founding Editor of the recently launched Just Security blog.

4:00pm SESSION 5: THE CONTENT COLLECTION CONTROVERSY

Timothy H. Edgar is a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute and adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center. His work focuses on the unique policy challenges posed by growing global cyber conflict, particularly in reconciling security interests with fundamental values, including privacy and Internet freedom. Mr. Edgar served under President Obama as the first director of privacy and civil liberties for the White House National Security Staff, focusing on cybersecurity, open government, and data privacy initiatives. From 2006 to 2009, he was the first deputy for civil liberties for the director of national intelligence, reviewing new surveillance authorities, the terrorist watchlist, and other sensitive programs. He has also been counsel for the information sharing environment, which facilitates the secure sharing of terrorism-related information. Prior to his government service, Mr. Edgar was the national security and immigration counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union, where he spearheaded the organization's innovative left-right coalition advocating for safeguards for a number of post-9/11 counterterrorism initiatives, including the USA Patriot Act. He frequently testified before Congress and appeared in major television, radio, and print media. His publications include contributions to Patriot Debates (American Bar Association 2005), America's Battle Against Terrorism (with Nadine Strossen) (Greenhaven Press 2005) and Women Immigrants in the United States (Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars 2002), and Constitutional Governance in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 25 Texas International Law Journal 207-237 (with Michael D. Nicoleau) (Spring 2000). Mr. Edgar was a law clerk to Judge Sandra Lynch, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He has a JD from Harvard Law School, where he served on the Harvard Law Review, and an AB from Dartmouth College.

Jennifer Granick is the Director of Civil Liberties at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. Jennifer returns to Stanford after working with the internet boutique firm of Zwillgen PLLC. Before that, she was the Civil Liberties Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Jennifer practices, speaks, and writes about computer crime and security, electronic surveillance, consumer privacy, data protection, copyright, trademark, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. From 2001 to 2007, Jennifer was Executive Director of CIS and taught cyberlaw, computer crime law, Internet intermediary liability, and Internet law and policy. Before teaching at Stanford, Jennifer spent almost a decade practicing criminal defense law in California. She was selected by Information Security magazine in 2003 as one of 20 “Women of Vision” in the field. She earned her law degree from University of California, Hastings College of the Law and her undergraduate degree from the New College of the University of South .

8:00pm EVENING CONVERSATION [invitation only]

Mr. Raj De is the General Counsel for the National Security Agency. He serves as the chief legal officer for NSA and as the principal legal advisor to the NSA Director. He became General Counsel for NSA in May 2012. Prior to joining NSA, Mr. De served in the White House as Staff Secretary and Deputy Assistant to the President. In that position, he reviewed all written materials for the President to ensure proper presentation of issues, accurate reflection of senior staffs views, and timely provision of daily briefing materials. He also supervised the Office of the Staff Secretary, and the offices of the Executive Clerk, Records Management, and Presidential Correspondence. From January 2009 to August 2010, when he joined the White House, Mr. De served in the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy, first as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and then as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General. There he worked closely with Department leadership, litigating components, and enforcement agencies on policy development and implementation across various subject areas including: civil rights, criminal justice, national security, and civil litigation. Mr. De started his career at the Department of Justice, where he was a trial attorney under the Attorney General's Honor Program. Mr. De has served on the staff of two congressionally established commissions. From 2008-2009 he served (pro bono while in private practice) as General Counsel to the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism. From 2003-2004 he served as Counsel to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the “9/11 Commission”). After the 9/11 Commission, he served as Counsel to a special bipartisan staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs from 2004-2005, where he was a primary drafter and negotiator for the intelligence reform legislation that implemented the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations for a Director of National Intelligence and a National Counterterrorism Center. Mr. De has also worked as an attorney in private practice. Most recently, he was a partner at the Washington, DC law firm Mayer Brown LLP prior to his DOJ appointment in January 2009, representing clients in appellate and general litigation, congressional investigations, and regulatory matters. Mr. De clerked for the Honorable A. Wallace Tashima of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Pasadena, California. He earned a JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard College.

FRIDAY, APRIL 4

9:00am SESSION 6: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON THE COMPLIANCE PROGRAM AND OVERSIGHT FRAMEWORK

Mr. John DeLong is the Director of Compliance at the National Security Agency. Prior to his appointment as Director of Compliance in July 2009, Mr. DeLong served as the Deputy Director of the NSA/CSS Commercial Solutions Center, which addresses the strategic needs of NSA/CSS and the national security community by harnessing the power of U.S. commercial technology. Mr. DeLong previously served in a joint duty position as the Deputy Director of the National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security, where he applied his technical, operational, and policy expertise to a wide range of cyber security issues. In previous positions, he has supported NSA/CSS Senior Leadership in various transformational efforts, advocating and leading the careful and efficient resolution of complex policy, technical, compliance and oversight issues. Over his career, Mr. DeLong has also developed and taught numerous classes at the National Cryptologic School in areas such as computer science and cyber security. Mr. DeLong graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1997 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics and Mathematics and received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2005. He is a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional. He actively reads in the area of policy and technology, especially in the emerging area of instantiating legal and policy rules into complex information technology infrastructures.

Alexander W. Joel is the Civil Liberties Protection Officer for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The ODNI leads the nation’s intelligence agencies. Mr. Joel is the director of the ODNI’s Civil Liberties and Privacy Office and reports directly to the Director of National Intelligence. His responsibilities include ensuring that the protection of privacy and civil liberties is appropriately incorporated in the policies and procedures of intelligence agencies, overseeing compliance by the ODNI with privacy and civil liberties laws, reviewing complaints of possible abuses of privacy and civil liberties in programs and operations administered by the ODNI, and ensuring that the use of technology sustains, and does not erode, privacy. Mr. Joel’s selection to this

position was announced by the Director of National Intelligence on December 7, 2005. Mr. Joel has more than a decade of experience with privacy, technology, and national security law. Mr. Joel was motivated enter public service following 9/11. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of General Counsel in October 2002, where he provided legal advice relating to intelligence activities. Prior to joining the government, Mr. Joel served as the privacy, technology, and e-commerce attorney for Marriott International, Inc., where he helped establish and implement Marriott’s global privacy compliance program, including the creation of Marriott’s first privacy officer position. Before that, he worked as a technology attorney at the law firm of Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge in Washington, DC (now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman) and as a U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Corps officer, with assignments that included prosecutor and criminal defense counsel. Mr. Joel was a former board member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the world’s largest association of privacy professionals. Mr. Joel received his law degree from the University of Michigan in 1987, magna cum laude, where he was a member of the Michigan Law Review. He received his BA from Princeton University in 1984, magna cum laude.

Margo Schlanger is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan, where she teaches torts, constitutional equality, and classes about prisons, civil rights, and homeland security. She also founded and runs the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, http://clearinghouse.net. Schlanger returned to the law school in January 2012 from a two-year leave, during which she served as the presidentially appointed Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Professor Schlanger earned her JD from Yale in 1993. While there, she served as book reviews editor of the Yale Law Journal and received the Vinson Prize. She then served as law clerk for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1993 to 1995. From 1995 to 1998, she was a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, where she worked to remedy civil rights abuses by prison and police departments. Schlanger, a leading authority on civil rights issues and civil and criminal detention, served on the Vera Institute’s blue ribbon Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons and as the reporter for the American Bar Association’s revision of its Standards on the Treatment of Prisoners. As the head of civil rights and civil liberties for the Department of Homeland Security, she served as the Secretary's lead advisor on civil rights and civil liberties issues, testified before Congress, chaired the Privacy, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Subcommittee of the federal Information Sharing Environment's Information Sharing and Access Interagency Policy Committee, chaired the Interagency Coordinating Council on Emergency Preparedness and Individuals with Disabilities, served on the first U.S. Delegation to the U.N. Universal Periodic Review, and met with community leaders and groups across America to ensure that their perspectives regarding civil rights and homeland security were considered in the Department's policy process. She is currently working on articles about civil rights compliance strategies in federal agencies and about the NSA and “intelligence legalism.”

10:15am SESSION 7: THE PROSPECTS FOR REFORM

Carrie Cordero is Director of National Security Studies and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law. Ms. Cordero served in national security related positions with the Department of Justice from 2000-2010, most recently as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security. Prior positions include Senior Associate General Counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Attorney Advisor at the Department of Justice, where she practiced before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court; and Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of Texas. Ms. Cordero received her BA magna cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, and JD cum laude from Washington College of Law, American University. She is frequently cited in the media on national security law issues, including NPR, Reuters, USA Today, and Politico.

Julian Sanchez is a research fellow at the Cato Institute. He studies issues at the busy intersection of technology, privacy, and civil liberties, with a particular focus on national security and intelligence surveillance. Before joining Cato, Sanchez served as the Washington Editor for the technology news site Ars Technica, where he covered surveillance, , and telecom policy. He has also worked as a writer for The Economist’s Democracy in America blog, and an editor for Reason magazine, where he remains a contributing editor. Sanchez has written on privacy and technology for a wide array of national publications, ranging from National Review to The Nation, and is a founding editor of the policy blog Just Security. He studied philosophy and political science at New York University.