Brennan Center for Justice

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

invites you to attend a symposium

Intelligence Collection and Law Enforcement: New Roles, New Challenges

Featuring:

Hon. John O. Brennan, Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
and
Rep. Bennie Thompson, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security

In the post-9/11 world, law enforcement officials are increasingly charged with a new mission. They are no longer merely crime-fighters, tasked with investigating crimes that have happened or are underway. They are also intelligence-collectors, tasked with gathering as much information as they can in order to stop the next terrorist attack before it happens.

On March 18, the Brennan Center for Justice will bring together an array of perspectives to discuss the implications of this new role for civil liberties and for the effectiveness of our nation’s counterterrorism efforts.

Panel 1: Intelligence Collection by State and Local Law Enforcement

• Sheriff Leroy Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
• Mike German, Policy Counsel on National Security, Immigration and Privacy, American Civil Liberties Union; former Special Agent, FBI
• Margo Schlanger, Officer for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Matthew Waxman, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Panel 2: The First Amendment and Domestic Intelligence Gathering 

• Geoffrey Stone, Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School
• Nura Maznavi, Counsel, Program to End Racial Profiling, Muslim Advocates
• Kate Martin, Director, Center for National Security Studies
• Chuck Rosenberg, Partner, Hogan Lovells; former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia

Panel 3: Regulation of Domestic Intelligence Gathering and Potential for Reform

• Suzanne Spaulding, Principal, Bingham Consulting Group; former Assistant General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency
• Shahid Buttar, Executive Director, Bill of Rights Defense Committee
• Philip Mudd, Senior Research Fellow, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative, New America Foundation; former Deputy Director, FBI National Security Branch
• Aziz Huq, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

Friday, March 18, 2011
9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
The Atlantic Philanthropies
75 Varick Street, 16th Floor
New York, NY

RSVP to R. Kyle Alagood (kyle.alagood@nyu.edu, 646-292-8346)

Elizabeth Goitein and Faiza Patel lead the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program. In early March, Ms. Patel released a report titled Rethinking Radicalization. Brennan Center counsel Emily Berman recently released a report titled Domestic Intelligence: New Powers, New Risks.