April 12, 2005

Reflections on the PATRIOT ACT: The Wall between Law Enforcement and Intelligence and the Prohibition Against Providing Material Support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations

A Lunch Discussion with Professors Robert M. Chesney and William C. Banks

(sponsored by INSCT and SATSA)
 

“Information Sharing and Homeland Security”

The Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism held its first event on March 19, 2004 in partnership with the Campbell Public Affairs Institute at Syracuse University. The seminar brought together prominent policymakers and academics to discuss the challenges of information sharing in the field of homeland security.

Better sharing of information - between intelligence and law enforcement agencies; among federal, state and local governments; and between the public and private sectors - has been called one of the main foundations of improved homeland security.

Sharing information is not easy. Often, there are bureaucratic or technical barriers that impede information flows. There are also difficult policy questions. For example, how will the security of sensitive information be preserved? And how will civil liberties and privacy rights be protected?

The seminar focused on three key topics - information sharing in the law enforcement and intelligence communities, the protection of critical infrastructure, and the use of personal information - and allowed for active discussion by participants.

• Program

• Panelists’ Bios

March 1, 2005
The Department of Homeland Security

A Lunch Discussion with Darrell Darnell, Director of the Preparedness Division for the DHS Headquarters Operational Integration Staff (I-STAFF) (sponsored by INSCT)

December 3, 2004
The Treatment of Detainees in the War on Terrorism

A Lunch Discussion with NSCT Research Center Students

(sponsored by INSCT and SATSA)

October 22, 2005
Reorganization of the Intelligence Community

A Lunch Discussion with Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky and NSCT Research Center Students (sponsored by INSCT and SATSA)