THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY AT THE CROSSROADS SPEAKER BIOS 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 Brookings Institution, 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 Harvard Law School. 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 Lawfare blog, which is devoted to sober and serious discussion of “Hard National Security Choices,” and is a member of the Hoover Institution’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 The Washington Post 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 The Atlantic, Slate, The New Republic, The Wilson Quarterly, The Weekly Standard, Policy Review, and First Things. Benjamin Wittes was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1990, and he has a black belt in taekwondo. Siobhan Gorman is a reporter for The Wall Street Journal 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.