Spymasters: Can We Kill Our Way Out?

Spymasters: Can We Kill Our Way Out? Moderated by Chris Whipple, filmmaker

John McLaughlin, former Deputy Director & Acting Director, CIA; Andrew Card, Chief of Staff under President George W. Bush; Rand Beers, Deputy Homeland Security Advisor

Wednesday, October 26, 2016
6:30pm-8:00pm
Filene Auditorium, Moore Building

Daniel Benjamin, Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, former Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. State Department, will introduce the panel.

Co-sponsored by Dickey Center for International Understanding

How far should America’s spymasters go to keep us safe from another terrorist attack? What tactics are fair game? What is the nature of modern terrorism, and how can we defeat it?

Has the world’s elite spying organization become a secret army, focused on paramilitary operations at the expense of gathering intelligence? These are some of the urgent questions I will explore with a distinguished panel of national security experts, using dramatic excerpts from my film for Showtime, The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs. Perhaps now more than ever before, the president’s national security team makes life-and-death decisions once reserved for kings or heads of state. But at what cost to American values?

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The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs
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