Program: City Under Siege

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

This looks interesting - for those who still watch TV


In the Balance: City Under Siege on Monday September, 19th at 10:00 p.m. (EST) http://www.fredfriendly.org.



Sometimes an attack is not a single event. Sometimes a people are under siege. In this program, a series of bombings have pushed a large American city to the limits of its nerves when a much more ominous threat emerges: could a massive dirty bomb be arriving in the harbor just in time for the Fourth of July? With 5,000 shipping containers landing daily, how many can be examined and how effectively? As the pressure mounts, who comes under suspicion of complicity?; for what reasons?; how are they investigated, under what rules of law? When evidence finally points to a specific suspect, how far do you go in an interrogation? With the minutes ticking down and the stakes growing, is torture ever allowable? Who sets the rules for such an engagement and when are they set?

Moderator: Charles Ogletree
Professor, Harvard Law School

Panelists:
Richard Clarke
Former senior White House Advisor; Chairman, Good Harbor Consulting, LLC; on-air consultant for ABC News; and author, Against All Enemies
Douglas M. Duncan
County Executive, Montgomery County, Maryland; and former Mayor, Rockville, Maryland
Stephen Flynn
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations; Commander, U.S. Coast Guard (retired); and author, America the Vulnerable
Jonathan Freiman
Senior Schell Fellow, Yale Law School; and Attorney, Wiggin & Dana
Jamie Gorelick
Former Deputy Attorney General of the United States; Partner, Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr LLP; former member of the National Commission on Terrorist Threats Upon the United States (the "9/11 Commission")
Frank Keating
Former Governor of Oklahoma; President and CEO American Council of Life Insurers; former Deputy Treasury Secretary
Rob Khuzami
Former federal prosecutor, United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
Frank Libutti
Former Undersecretary, Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Directorate, Department of Homeland Security; and Former Deputy Commissioner, Counter-Terrorism Bureau, New York Police Department
Dana Priest
National Security Reporter, Washington Post; and analyst for NBC News
Warren Rudman
Former Senator, New Hampshire; Of Counsel, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; former Co-Chair, U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century; and former Chairman, President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board
Nadine Strossen
President, American Civil Liberties Union; and Professor of Law, New York Law School
Stuart Taylor
Columnist, National Journal; Contributor, Newsweek; and Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Congressman Bennie Thompson
Mississippi, Ranking Democratic Member, Homeland Security Committee
Dale Watson
Former Executive Assistant Director for Counter-Terrorism and Counter-Intelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
Ahmed Younis
National Director, Muslim Public Affairs Council; and author, American Muslims: Voir Dire (Speak the Truth)