Friday Dinner Discussions
On Friday evening, January 27 several Dinner Table Discussions on Intelligence Ethics in Current Events will take place.
Reservations for these tables closed at noon EST on Tuesday, January 24, by requirement of the caterer.
- Politicization of intelligence, led by Cynthia Grabo
- When is it ethical to blow the whistle? led by David MacMichael
- The Arab Mind and Abu Ghraib: Appropriate uses of cultural knowledge? led by Laura McNamara
- The media and intelligence-conflict and collaboration, led by Joshua Phillips
- Pinochet on trial, led by Jose Quiroga
- The suicide of Col. Ted Westhusing (West Point ethics professor) in Iraq, led by Dwight Roblyer
- Intelligence Ethics and the Patriot Act, led by William Spracher
- Domestic intelligence collection - some peculiar and unknown characteristics of the Swedish legal system, led by Dennis Toellborg
- Intelligence, Ethics and the War in Iraq: A view from a CEO, led by John Villanueva
- The mistaken "rendition" of Khaled El-Masri, a German citizen, led by Terrence Walker
- The last of the Cold War defectors, led by Nigel West
- The role of health professionals in interrogations, led by Matt Wynia
Additional Dinner Table Discussions will be arranged in person at the conference on Friday afternoon. The topics of discussion will include:
- Intelligence ethics and accountability, led by Ian Leigh
- NSA wiretapping: legal and ethical considerations, led by Barak Cohen