Aspen Security Forum - Timetable - Planning for war?

[Magda Hassan]

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WEDNESDAY JULY
23
1:00 PM
Registration
Attendees may proceed to the Aspen Meadows campus to pick up their registra
tion
packets. Packets will contain a master schedule, as well as a Forum badge, which will be
required to enter any Forum event.
Registration packets will be available for pick
-
up
until
July 26
th
.
DOERR
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HOSIER CENTER
6:00

7:00
PM
"This We'll Defend
:
"
The Army's Role
in Defending the Nation Against
Today's Security
and Fiscal Challenges
The Chief of Staff surveys the
foreboding global scene and explains how
the Army can
rise to meet the
threats facing us, despite fewer troops and less money
.
Gen. Ray Odierno
, Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
M
ODERATOR
:
Wolf
Blitzer
,
Host
, "The Situation Room,
"
CNN
GREENWAL
D
PAVILION
7:15

8:30
PM
Opening Reception
DOERR
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HOSIER CENTER
THURSDAY
JULY
2
4
8:
00

9:
00
AM
Breakfast
BAR
KSDALE LOBBY, DOERR
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HOSIER CENTER
9:00

10:
00
AM
U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy
and its Implications for Emerging National Security
Threats
This session will explore the range of tools the United States, working alone and with
our international partners, can use to respond to security threats around the globe, and
the pluses and minuses associated with them
.
John Carlin
, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, Department of Justice
David Cohen
, Under Secretary of the Treasury
for Terrorism
and
Financial
Intelligence
, De
p
artment
of the
Treasury
Amb.
Tina Kaidanow
, Ambassador
-
at
-
Large and Coordinator for Counte
rterrorism,
Department of State
Michael Vickers
, Under
S
ecret
ary of Defense for Intelligence
,
Department of Defense
MODERATOR:
Brian Ross
,
Chie
f Investigative
Correspondent, ABC News
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR
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HOSIER CENTER


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10:
0
0
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11:
0
0
AM
TSA: Toward a Risk
-
Based Approach to Aviation Security
This session will
examine threats to the aviation sector and how TSA is responding to
these threats with a risk
-
based approach, as opposed to the post
-
9/11 "one size fits all"
assumption that each traveler is as likely as the next to be a terrorist.
John Pistole
, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration
MODERAT
OR:
Catherine Herridge
, Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR
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HOSIER CENTER
11:
00

11:1
5
AM
Break
11:1
5 AM

1
2
:
1
5
PM
Rethinking the U.S. National Security Apparatus
This session will discuss whether the United States government is properly structured,
financed, and staffed to meet the security threats of today.
Gen.
Michael Hayden
(Ret.)
, Former Director, Central Intel
ligence Ag
ency; Former
Director, National Security Agency; Principal, The Chertoff Group
Mike
Leiter
, Former Director, National Counter
terrorism Center; Head of Global
Government and Commercial Cyber Operations, Palantir
; National Security Analyst,
NBC New
s
John McLaughlin
, Former Acting and Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency;
Distinguished Practitioner
-
in
-
Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies
Adm.
Eric Olson
(Ret.)
,
Former Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
MODERATOR
:
Eric Schmitt
,
National Security
Correspondent,
The New York Times
MCNULTY ROO
M, DOERR
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HOSIER CENTER
12:15

12:45
PM
Lunch
BA
RKSDALE LOBBY, DOERR
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HOSIER CENTER
1
2:45

1
:
45
PM
Assessing the Department of Homeland Security
Are we safer today than we were when DHS
was created more than a decade ago?
What progress has it made? What more must it do to secure the homeland?
Jeh
Johnson
, Secretary of Homeland Security
MODERATOR:
Dina Temple
-
Raston
, Counterterrorism Correspondent, NPR
MCNULTY ROOM, DOERR
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HOSIER CENTER