2013 Aspen Security Forum
July 17 - 20, 2013 | Aspen, CO
Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder: The Air Force’s Role in Countering Terrorism and Advancing America’s Interests in the World
Speaker: General Mark Welsh, Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force
Moderator: John King, Chief National Correspondent, CNN
Doing More with Less—Simply an Oxymoron or Also an Imperative: Refashioning Today's Pentagon to Fight the Wars of the Future
Speaker: Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Moderator: David Sanger, Chief Washington Correspondent, The New York Times
Mission Accomplished? Has the Intelligence Community Connected All the Dots?
Speaker: Adm. Dennis Blair (Ret.), Former Director of National Intelligence
Speaker: Amb. John Negroponte, Former Director of National Intelligence; Vice Chairman, McLarty Associates
Moderator: Barton Gellman, Contributing Editor At Large, TIME
Counterterrorism, National Security, and the Rule of Law
Speaker: Raj De, General Counsel, National Security Agency
Speaker: Neil MacBride, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia
Speaker: Anthony Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union
Speaker: Jeh Charles Johnson, Former General Counsel, Department of Defense; Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison
Speaker: Jane Harman, Director, President, and CEO, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
Moderator: Mike Isikoff, National Investigative Correspondent, NBC News
Through a Glass Darkly: What Security Threats Does the Future Hold and What Can We Do Now to Protect Ourselves from Them?
Speaker: Dr. Mathew Burrows, Counselor, National Intelligence Council
Speaker: Charles Allen, Former Under Secretary of Homeland Security for Intelligence and Analysis; Principal, The Chertoff Group
Speaker: John McLaughlin, Former Acting and Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Speaker: Maurice Sonnenberg, Co-Chairman, National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community
Moderator: Dina Temple-Raston, Counterterrorism Correspondent, NPR
MANHUNT: The Search for Osama Bin Laden
Speaker: Peter Bergen, Author, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad; National Security Analyst, CNN; Director, National Security Studies Program, New America Foundation
Speaker: Greg Barker, Director and Producer, MANHUNT, Passion Pictures
Moderator: Dan Raviv, National Correspondent, CBS News
The Threat Matrix: How is the Terrorism Threat Evolving in the Post-Bin Laden Era?
Speaker: John Ashcroft, Former U.S. Attorney General; Member, Board of Directors, ACADEMI; Chairman, The Ashcroft Group, LLC
Speaker: Gen. Michael Hayden (Ret.), Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Former Director, National Security Agency; Principal, The Chertoff Group
Speaker: Philip Mudd, Author, Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda; Director of Global Risk, SouthernSun Asset Management; Senior Research Fellow, New America Foundation; Senior Global Adviser, Oxford Analytica
Speaker: Judge William Webster, Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency; Former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Speaker: Juan Zarate, Former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism; Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Moderator: Catherine Herridge, Chief Intelligence Correspondent, Fox News
TSA: Rethinking Aviation Security in the Post-Bin Laden Era
Speaker: John Pistole, Administrator, Transportation Security Administration
Moderator: Brian Ross, Chief Investigative Correspondent, ABC News
Industry’s Role in Cybersecurity
Speaker: Michael Chertoff, Chairman and Co-Founder, The Chertoff Group; Former Secretary of Homeland Security
Speaker: Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President, Trustworthy Computing, Microsoft
Speaker: Mati Kochavi, Founder and CEO, AGT International
Speaker: Kevin Mandia, Founder and CEO, MANDIANT
Speaker: Suzanne Spaulding, Acting Under Secretary, National Protection and Programs Directorate, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Moderator: Robert O'Harrow, Staff Writer, The Washington Postt
AFRICOM: The Next Afghanistan?
Speaker: Gen. Carter Ham (Ret.), Former Commander, U.S. Africa Command
Moderator: Eric Schmitt, National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
Unrest in the Arab World and its Implications for our Security
Speaker: Dr. Abderrahim Foukara, Washington Bureau Chief, Al Jazeera Media Network
Speaker: Robin Wright, United States Institute of Peace Senior Fellow - Wilson Center Distinguished Scholar
Speaker: Dr. Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development, University of Maryland; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Speaker: Ambassador Jim Jeffrey, Philip Solondz Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Washington Institute
Moderator: Christopher Isham, Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, CBS News
The Military and Intelligence: Out of the Shadows
Speaker: David Shedd, Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
Moderator: Siobhan Gorman, Intelligence Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal
Iran: Crossing the “Red Line?”
Speaker: Joseph Cirincione, President, Ploughshares Fund
Speaker: Amb. Joseph DeTrani, President, Intelligence and National Security Alliance; Former Director, National Counter Proliferation Center, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
Speaker: Dr. Gary Samore, Former White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism; Executive Director of Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Speaker: Ray Takeyh, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Moderator: Massimo Calabresi, Senior Correspondent, TIME
At the Center of the Action: The National Counterterrorism Center and its Role in Securing the Homeland
Speaker: Matthew G. Olsen, Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Speaker: Mike Leiter, Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center; Senior Counsel, Palantir Technologies
Moderator: Ryan Lizza, Washington Correspondent, The New Yorker
Clear and Present Danger: Cyber-Crime; Cyber-Espionage; Cyber-Terror; and Cyber-War
Speaker: Gen. Keith Alexander, Director, National Security Agency; Commander, U.S. Cyber Command
Moderator: Pete Williams, Chief Justice Correspondent, NBC News
International Perspectives on Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Speaker: Gilles de Kerchove, European Union Counter-Terrorism Coordinator
Speaker: Richard Barrett, Former Coordinator, United Nations Al-Qaida Taliban Monitoring Team; Senior Vice President for Special Projects, The Soufan Group; Director, The Qatar International Academy of Security Studies
Moderator: Edward McBride, Washington Bureau Chief, The Economist
Putting Out Fires Before They Spread: The US’s Role in Preventing Conflict
Speaker: Amb. Rick Barton, Assistant Secretary of State for Conflict and Stabilization Operations
Speaker: Adm. Bill H. McRaven, Commander, U.S. Special Operations Command
Speaker: Michael Sheehan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict
Speaker: Maj. Gen. Raymond "Tony" Thomas, Former Commander, Special Operations Joint Task Force Afghanistan; Former Commander, NATO Special Operations Component Command Afghanistan; Former Deputy Commander, Joint Special Operations Command
Moderator: Josh Gerstein, Reporter, POLITICO
Iraq and AfPak: Now and Then
Speaker: Gen. John Rutherford Allen (Ret.), Former Commander, International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan; Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense on Middle East Security
Speaker: Amb. Lewis Paul Bremer III, Former Administrator, Coalition Provisional Authority of Iraq; President and CEO, Bremer Enterprises
Speaker: Amb. Husain Haqqani, Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States; Director for South and Central Asia, Hudson Institute; Director and Professor, Center of International Relations, Boston University
Moderator: Lesley Stahl, Correspondent, CBS News
Counterterrorism and the Media
Speaker: P.J. Crowley, Former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs; Fellow and Professor of Practice, Institute for Public Diplomacy and Global Communication, The George Washington University
Speaker: Dan Klaidman, Author, Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency; National Political Correspondent, Newsweek and The Daily Beast
Speaker: Mark Mazzetti, Author, The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth; National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
Moderator: Kimberly Dozier, Author, Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report and Get Back to the Fight
Law Enforcement and National Security
Speaker: John Carlin, Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, National Security Division, Department of Justice
Speaker: David S. Cohen, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Department of the Treasury
Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Kiernan, Former Assistant Director, Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; CEO, Kiernan Holdings Group; Advisor, Network Science Research Center, IBM
Moderator: Michelle Cottle, Washington Correspondent, Newsweek and The Daily Beast
Looking East: The Pacific Pivot
Speaker: Gordon Chang, Columnist, Forbes.com; Author, Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World and The Coming Collapse of China
Speaker: Tom Culligan, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Raytheon Company; CEO, Raytheon International, Inc.
Speaker: Amb. Christopher Hill, Dean, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver; Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, Former Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
Speaker: Adm. Patrick Walsh (Ret.), Former Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet; Senior Fellow, Southern Methodist University
Moderator: Susan Glasser, Former Editor in Chief, Foreign Policy; Editor, POLITICO
CENTCOM Review: Turmoil in the Mideast and Southwest Asia and its Implications for American Security
Speaker: Gen. James N. Mattis (Ret.), Former Commander, U.S. Central Command; Former Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command; Former Commander, NATO Supreme Allied Command Transformation
Moderator: Wolf Blitzer, Host, "The Situation Room," CNN