those working online, we remind you as well as those joining us on c-span that you are welcome to send questions or comments at any time, simply e-mailing speaker at heritage.org and of course we will post the program on the homepage following today s presentation for everyone s future reference. leading our discussion is mr. stimson, manager of our law program and senior legal fellow in our center for national defense. he is a national recognized expert and homeland security crime control, drug control and immigration. he he writes and lectures on policy issues such as the law of armed conflict in interrogations, the geneva conventions, the patriot act and others. before joining us here ten years ago, he served he served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs for donald rumsfeld and ronald gates. he has been a prosecutor about state local and federal levels. he is a navy officer and served as a milk terry prosecutor and recently served as deputy judge
good afternoon, welcome to the heritage foundation. you can join us on our heritage.org website. for those here in house, we ask that courtesy check to see that mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. of course for those watching a mine, we remind you is those as well as those joining in c-span that you are welcome to send questions or comments at any time, you know and the speaker at heritage.org us the program on the heritage home page the following today s presentation for everyone s future reference. manager of the national security law program in their senior national defense. it s a nationally nice the national. homeland security prime control, drug policy, and immigration. he also writes pictures widely of policy. law firm conflict, terrorist policy and interrogation, the geneva conventions, military commissions, the patriot of isaac, and others. before joining us here in heritage 10 years ago, he served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for detai
good afternoon, welcome to the heritage foundation. you can join us on our heritage.org website. for those here in house, we ask that courtesy check to see that mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. of course for those watching a mine, we remind you is those as well as those joining in c-span that you are welcome to send questions or comments at any time, you know and the speaker at heritage.org us the program on the heritage home page the following today s presentation for everyone s future reference. his manager of the national security law program in their senior national defense. it s a nationally nice the national. homeland security prime control, drug policy, and immigration. he also writes pictures widely of policy. such as a law firm conflict, terrorist policy and interrogation, the geneva conventions, military commissions, the patriot of isaac, and others. eva conventions, military commissions, the patriot of isaac, and others. before joining us he
the heritage foundation. you can join us on our heritage.org website. for those here in house, we ask that courtesy check to see that mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. of course for those watching a mine, we remind you is those as well as those joining in c-span that you are welcome to send questions or comments at any time, you know and the speaker at heritage.org us the program on the heritage home page the following today s presentation for everyone s future reference. manager of the national security law program in their senior national defense. it s a nationally nice the national. homeland security prime control, drug policy, and immigration. he also writes pictures widely of policy. law firm conflict, terrorist policy and interrogation, the geneva conventions, military commissions, the patriot of isaac, and others. before joining us here in heritage 10 years ago, he served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee there s secretary donal
good afternoon. welcome to the heritage foundation and our douglas and sara allison auditorium. we welcome those who join our heritage.org web site on all of these occasions, for those here in house we would ask that courtesy check to see that our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off and, of course, for those watching online we remind you as well as those joining us on c-span that you re welcome to send questions or comments at any time. simply e-mailing speaker @heritage.org and we will post that on the home page for everyone s future reference. leading our discussion is culley stimson. mr. stimson is manager of our national security law program and a senior legal fellow in our center for national defense. he s a nationally recognized expert in national security, homeland security, crime control, drug policy and immigration. he also writes and lectures widely on policy issues such as the law of armed conflict, terrorist detainee policy and interrogations, the ge