Evening. My name is ambassador holgate, dissociated at institute for International Science and Technology Policy here at the Elliott School, emphasis on the visit parker on that here very often but its a super treat to be here this evening to have a chance to introduce a true hero from our National Security community. Youve all seen his biography and the title for this evenings talk of a discussion on an intelligence career and its hard to imagine anyone more suited to the topic of a career in intelligence than mr. James clapper. And its a great treat to having here this evening. As you can see from his background, hes had over five years of experience in the Intelligence Community, in the military side, on display inside come inside and outside government, and overseas as well. Maybe its not listed in his bio but maybe someone and ask him a question today but is 2014 visit to north korea, to rescue a couple of americans who got caught up there. I first met mr. Clapper in the 1990s whe
Have ratcheted up tensions with the United States at an alarming rate. With the knowledge that north korea conducted 20 missile test on over a dozen different occasions between february and september 2017, including tests of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, Many Americans and our allies around the globe remain on edge. However, americans may rightly wonder about north koreas ability to threaten the homeland. Intelligence from the kingdom is often inconsistent and limited, despite these intelligence challenges, information that has been gathered is reason enough for alarm. According to media reports, to north korean shipments to a Syrian Government Agency Responsible for the countrys Chemical Weapons Program were intercepted in the past six months. While these reports did not detail what the shipments to syria contained, this is not the first time a north korean ship has been seized carrying suspected Missile System components. In 2013, a north korean ship was intercepted in the pan
Im a columnist at the washington post. Thank you for joining us this morning for a panel entitled Homeland Security challenges. We have a very distinguished panel with us today in first we have the former secretary of Homeland Security the honorable jeh johnson and mr. Frank cilluffo the director of the center for cyber and Homeland Security at the George Washington university my alma mater. We have congressman Kathleen Rice representing the Fourth District of new york and also the ranking democrat on the subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence and last but certainly not least the honorable Kenneth Wainstein who served served as the home and security adviser to president george w. Bush. Now i have prepared an extensive introduction for todays panel but those plans were tossed in the garbage when President Trump issued a series of official statements this morning that are extremely relevant to this panel. You might also call them tweets and the tweets are directed at one of ou
Im a columnist at the washington post. Thank you for joining us this morning for a panel entitled Homeland Security challenges. We have a very distinguished panel with us today in first we have the former secretary of Homeland Security the honorable jeh johnson and mr. Frank cilluffo the director of the center for cyber and Homeland Security at the George Washington university my alma mater. We have congressman Kathleen Rice representing the Fourth District of new york and also the ranking democrat on the subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence and last but certainly not least the honorable Kenneth Wainstein who served served as the home and security adviser to president george w. Bush. Now i have prepared an extensive introduction for todays panel but those plans were tossed in the garbage when President Trump issued a series of official statements this morning that are extremely relevant to this panel. You might also call them tweets and the tweets are directed at one of ou
Fellow on the board at the Atlantic Council welcome to this session we are delighted youre here. This event is part of the center from International Security. We are followed on twitter so all of those there online we encourage you to join the conversation if you have questions you can send them and we will try to incorporate them. The conversation is about the book the darkening web via Alexander Klimburg you can pick that up by your local bookstore. It is an outstanding book i have read parts of it and i recommend it. Though whole series of sight cyberseries is to bring experts in of the public together in conversations of the importance so we have a terrific group here today and you all know that we have had a lot of incidents in the last few weeks. Like ukraine, rand somewhere , and multiple sets of questions. The internet raises issues that the originators and never really thought about. Is say public good or the International Public good so who will keep a good . Have to do that