Location: The Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium
On January 17, 2007, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced
that electronic surveillance under the NSA domestic surveillance
program will be subject to the approval of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court, a court that operates under the Foreign
Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978. Prior to this
announcement, the surveillance program - that includes interception
of communications to and from the United States - operated without
warrants or court review. The Heritage Foundation and the Center
for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) have assembled a
range experts to discuss the implications of this recent change,
the lessons learned, and the next steps for electronic surveillance
in the fight against international terrorism.
More About the Speakers
Mary DeRosa
Senior Fellow,
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Todd Gaziano
Director,
Center for Legal and Judicial Studies,
The Heritage Foundation
Suzanne Spaulding
Principal,
Bingham Consulting Group
John C. Yoo
Professor of Law,
University of California, Berkeley,
School of Law, and
Author of War By Other Means: An Insider's Account of the War
on Terror
Moderator:
James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
Assistant Director,
Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis
Institute for International Studies,
The Heritage Foundation