Archive for the ‘Spies & Intel’ Category

March 31 — Stephen Flynn explains why “port security is still a house of cards”

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Stephen Flynn ranks among the world’s most widely cited experts on homeland; maritime and port; and trade and transportation security issues. Since 9/11 he has provided testimony on 17 occasions on Capitol Hill and has testified before the Canadian House of commons and the Canadian Senate. Now he comes far from port, to the Woodstock Club. (more…)

March 1 — “The US in the World: Global Issues the Candidates and the Electorate Should Be Talking About”

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Some very bright analysts of international relations are teaching in the smaller colleges and universities of Indiana, refining their insights far from the distractions of DC (or even of Bloomington and Lafayette). Hear what they have to say at the Indiana Consortium for International Programs (ICIP) conference. (more…)

February 26 — “Where is Russia Going?”

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

During his two terms as president, Vladimir Putin has attempted to remake Russia into a major, independent world power. Some of his recent policies have provoked concern in the U.S. and Europe. With a 2008 Russian presidential election expected, what course will Russia take? (more…)

November 5 — Why the President should get to spy where he wants, on people he thinks are bad

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Talk by Robert Turner, co-founder of the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, about why the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and other Congressionally devised mechanisms, can’t restrain the president’s authority. (more…)

September 27 — Lee Hamilton on US foreign policy

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Lee Hamilton lunches with the Indianapolis Committee on Foreign Relations and the Indiana Council on World Affairs … and so can you! (more…)

September 5 — Provocate Night at the Movies kicks off with the Iraq documentary “No End in Sight”

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

How could so many smart people in the Bush Administration have made such a screw-up of Iraq? Watch them explain themselves in the highly acclaimed documentary “No End in Sight” … then discuss the controversies with some of the area’s top foreign policy experts. (more…)

September 20 — Retired spy discusses the decline and fall of the CIA

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

When spooks speak, it’s worth listening. Especially when their speeches are entitled “THE FAILURE OF INTELLIGENCE: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE CIA” (more…)

September 22 — An opportunity to participate in a pathbreaking “citizens’ foreign policy summit”

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Right now there may be a rare window of opportunity for citizens “outside the beltway” to shape US foreign policy. Citizens for Global Solutions thinks so, and is setting up a summit for experts and non-experts to discuss the country’s main challenges, and top priorities for the next President. (more…)

September 26 — Lee Hamilton shares his “Thoughts on American Foreign Policy”

Saturday, August 18th, 2007

The US seems in deperate need of a balanbced, responsible, grown-up foreign policy. No one articulates this sort of policy better than America’s greatest living former Congressman, Lee Hamilton. (more…)