Media Coverage of Intelligence Symposium

Several leading news sources have been covering the event and below are just a sample.

Austin American-Statesmen: https://www.statesman.com/news/local/comey-clinton-emails-not-going-talk-about-fbi-director-says/AA8wsY9hyPjWJDdMXo9nNK/

The Texas Tribune: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/03/23/livestream-fbi-director-james-comey-ut-austin/

Politico: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/james-comey-russia-trump-motive-236421

Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-03-23/comey-says-surveillance-requirements-are-tough-and-that-s-good

Alcalde: https://alcalde.texasexes.org/2017/03/fbi-director-james-comey-talks-national-security-at-ut/

The Daily Texan: http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2017/03/24/fbi-director-james-comey-gives-status-update-on-counterterrorism

 

Video: 

Welcome by Gregory Fenves, President of The University of Texas at Austin

An Evolving Domestic Threat: A Discussion with Bruce Hoffman and Peter Bergen

• Bruce Hoffman, Director of the Center for Security Studies and Professor at Georgetown University
  Peter Bergen, Author and CNN National Security Analyst
• Moderator: Michele L. Malvesti, Professor of Practice in International Security Studies at Tufts University

Keynote Remarks by James Comey, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

• Introduction by Chancellor William McRaven
• Discussion and audience questions moderated by William Inboden, Executive Director of the Clements Center for National Security

Challenges for State and Local Governments in Countering Extremist Violence: A Panel Discussion with Steve McCraw, Lt. Gen. John Bansemer, and Robert Griffin

• Steve McCraw, Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety
  Lt. Gen. John Bansemer, Assistant Director of National Intelligence for Partner Engagement at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
  Robert Griffin, Serial Entrepreneur in Intelligence and National Security
• Moderator: Samuel Rascoff, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law and Security at New York University

Keynote Remarks by Thomas Bossert, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism

• Discussion and audience questions moderated by Stephen Slick, Director of the Intelligence Studies Project

Commanders’ Perspectives

• Remarks by Commander, U.S. Southern Command, Adm Kurt Tidd
• Commentary by Chancellor William McRaven and Gen. (Ret) Norton Schwartz, President and CEO of the Business Executives for National Security
• Moderator: Christine Abizaid, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia

Safeguarding Civil Liberties While Defending the Homeland: A Conversation between Ben Wittes and Hina Shamsi

• Ben Wittes, Editor-in-Chief of Lawfare and Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution
  Hina Shamsi, Director of the ACLU National Security Project
• Moderator: Robert Chesney, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law

New Approaches to Securing the Homeland

• Closing Remarks by Gen. Norton Schwartz