Policy Forum 

# The Obama Administration’s Counterterrorism Policy at One Year 

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Date and Time 

January 13, 2010 10 AM - 1 PM EST 

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Auditorium/1st floor/Wintergarden 

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##### Featuring 

Featuring a keynote address by **Daniel Benjamin**, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State. Additional speakers include **Clark Ervin**, Director, Aspen Institute’s Homeland Security Program; **Paul Pillar**, Former CIA official now Professor and Director of Studies of the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University; **Michael German**, Former FBI agent now serving as policy counsel on national security, immigration, and privacy at the American Civil Liberties Union; **Priscilla Lewis**, Co-Director of the U.S. in the World Initiative; and **Jacob Shapiro**, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Moderated by **Christopher Preble**, Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute and **Jim Harper**, Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute. 

The one-year anniversary of the Obama presidency is time for a review of the administration’s counterterrorism policies. What are those policies, and how well have they met the challenge of terrorism over the past year? Does the absence of a formal counterterrorism strategy leave the nation exposed? Should the administration produce such a strategy and a terrorism communications plan aimed at thwarting overreaction to any future attack? These key questions, and more, will be explored at a Cato Institute policy forum featuring counterterrorism and communications experts, followed by an address by Daniel Benjamin, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official.

**This event is made possible through the generosity of The Atlantic Philanthropies.**

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