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WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENCE POLICY:
COLLECTION, ANALYSIS AND COMMUNITY


When: June 21, 2006

Co-sponsors: This event is by invitation only.

WORKSHOP ON INTELLIGENCE POLICY: COLLECTION, ANALYSIS AND COMMUNITY

Overview:
On June 21, 2006, the Eisenhower National Security Series, in conjunction with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and The Sorrento Group, will convene a closed meeting of intelligence and national security policy experts to discuss critical issues in intelligence policy. The session, entitled "Workshop on Intelligence Policy: Collection, Analysis and Community," will be held at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. The experts group will analyze the reorganization of the U.S. Intelligence Community under a new Director of National Intelligence, the collection of terrorism intelligence through domestic surveillance techniques, the future of strategic intelligence analysis after the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, and intelligence and the press. Among the speakers and discussants invited will be Suzanne Spaulding, former general counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and former CIA official; David Kris, former Department of Justice senior attorney; Spike Bowman, former senior FBI official; Kate Martin, head of the Center for National Security Studies; Robert Hutchings, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council; Steven Simon, terrorism analyst and former National Security Council staff member; and Paul Pillar, former senior CIA intelligence analyst.

Agenda
9:00 a.m.
  Welcoming Remarks
  • Robert Litwak, Woodrow Wilson Center
  • William M. Wise, The Sorrento Group
9:15 a.m.
  Panel I:
A Report Card on Intelligence Reform
  • Chair: Jennifer Sims, Georgetown University
10:45 a.m.
  Break
11:00 a.m.
  Panel II:
Terrorist Surveillance or Illegal Eavesdropping?
The Debate on Domestic Intelligence Collection
  • Chair: Suzanne Spaulding, Bingham Consulting Group
  • David Kris, Former Department of Justice senior attorney
  • Spike Bowman, Former FBI senior official
  • Kate Martin, Director, Center for National Security Studies
12:30 p.m.
  Luncheon:
Intelligence and the Press
  • Chair: William M. Wise, The Sorrento Group
  • Speaker: Barton Gellman, Washington Post
2:00 p.m.
  Panel III:
Strategic Intelligence Estimates after Iraq
  • Chair: Robert Litwak, Woodrow Wilson Center
  • Paul Pillar, Georgetown University
  • Robert Hutchings, Princeton University
  • Steven Simon, Council on Foreign Relations
3:30 p.m.
  Concluding Remarks
3:45 p.m.
  Adjourn