Everyone please sit down. Know we have people trickling in, but we are starting anyway. Ok. Welcome to the Wilson Center to those who are physically here and those who will be watching us on cspan and by other means. Harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center and former member of congress who is proud of her role in helping create the department of Homeland Security. Today we are pleased to cohost ural Homeland Security Experts Group meeting with support from the miners association, american airlines, and mckinsey. It is the group of the best americann the Homeland Security. It was found over 10 years ago and is now rebooted and housed at the minor corporation. Secretary and my dear friend Michael Chertoff and i are honored to be cochairs, and rob walker is the newly minted director. Mission is to offer independence, nonpartisan advice to key government officials as they face hard security programs, raise awareness, and offer solutions. We are nonpartisan and we hope we add val
Welcome to the theater located at the National Archives building washington dc and i like to give a special shout out to our friends on cspan who are joining us today. Before we hear from philip about his book black site i will tell you about two upcoming programs taking place in the theater we will hear about the forgotten founding father george mason the founding father who gave us the bill of rights. On tuesday september 10th Sidney Blumenthal will tell about his recently released volume number three of his biography of Abraham Lincoln 1856 through 1863 to find more out about these programs please visit our website you will also find printed materials with Upcoming Events as well ass signup sheets to have the electronic version of the monthly calendar. Joining the cia in 1985 as a special agent after september 11 he was a cia member of a small diplomatic11 team for afghanistan then he became Deputy Director for orterrace center and stayed there through 2005 the first Deputy Director
Theater located in the National Archives building in washington dc and also a special shout out to our friends at cspan who are joining us today. Before we hear from philip about his book would like to tell you about two upcoming programs taking place. August 16th at noon to tell us about a forgotten founding father george mason who gave us the bill of rights and on tuesday september 10th at noon blumenthal will talk about his recently released volume of his biography of Abraham Lincoln 1856 through 1863. To find out more please visit our website. Also printed materials in the lobby about Upcoming Events as well as signup sheets you can receive the electronic version. Philip joined the cia in 1985 specializing in south asia and then the middle east after the september 11 attacks and see a member of a small Diplomatic Team hoping to piece together a government in afghanistan. Meant to become Deputy Director of the Counterterrorism Center serving through 2005. He was the first Deputy Dir
Club. Thank you very much. This is a great turnout, i am flattered if there Something Else important in washington, d. C. Tonight, i think you know what im talking about. [laughter] thank you for coming. I am dean of the policy of government at George Mason University. And respond to the Michael Hayden center for intelligence policy and International Security that has put on a number of wonderful programs over the past few years and we will continue to do so. I look very much forward to this special event and for those of you who do not know, George Mason University has a policy government that provides academic programs both in fairfax and in Arlington Virginia and we have a number of professional degree programs primarily taught in arlington and public policy, public ministration, International Security studies which is ranked number two by u. S. News and world report, we are very proud of that. I think the Michael Hayden center, our center for Security Policy studies, another number
Government that provides academic programs both in fairfax and in Arlington Virginia and we have a number of professional degree programs primarily taught in arlington and public policy, public ministration, International Security studies which is ranked number two by u. S. News and world report, we are very proud of that. I think the Michael Hayden center, our center for Security Policy studies, another number of entities at the school are very important component of the recognition we have received for being leaders in the field of security studies. Again, thank you for being here, i look forward to a great event. I want to acknowledge the presence of the university, david lewis. [applause] several members of our board of trustees are also here tonight. Thanks to them for attending this event as well. But most importantly i want to acknowledge the presence of the founder of the Michael Hayden center and his wife jeanine, general Michael Hayden and jeanine hayden. [applause] we are ve