The Strauss and Clements Centers’ second annual National Security Forum has drawn senior intelligence leaders and scholars to Austin to discuss issues ranging from terrorism to stability operations. Several leading news sources have been covering the event and below are just a sample.
Austin American-Statesman: “3 takeaways from UT’s national security panel on Russia“, “Rep. McCaul offers insider’s insights about a very dangerous world“, and “Cornyn calls for clear foreign policy strategy to defeat ISIS”
Time Warner Cable: “UT Chancellor: America must lead fight against ISIS”
KVUE: “Experts: “US can balance values and security”
Texas Public Radio: “Security experts say Texas shouldn’t ban Syrian refugees”
Strauss Center Director Adam Klein has been appointed to the congressional FISA Reform Commission by U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Klein brings to the Commission his experience as former Chairman of the United States Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, which oversees the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) and other national security authorities. The Commission is tasked...
Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Director of the Asia Policy Program and Editor of the Texas National Security Review, recently published “On War and Politics” in the fall edition of the Texas National Security Review. Utilizing a historical lens, Greitens emphasizes the “the need to integrate the use of military force with broader tools of strategy and statecraft in service of broader political goals.”...
Adam Klein, Director of the Strauss Center for International Security and Law, was quoted in an article in Dispatch on "FISA's Section 702 Has Lapsed. Now What?". Section 702's authority on surveilling non-Americans abroad lapsed for the first time on June 12. “The relative constitutional clarity that 702 provides should be seen as stabilizing and protective, and so for that...