[Sci-tech-public] POWER WARS: SURVEILLANCE, DRONES, AND OBAMA’S POST-9/11 PRESIDENCY - Friday, December 4, 2015, 4 - 5.30 pm

[Gus Zahariadis]

POWER WARS: SURVEILLANCE, DRONES,

AND OBAMA’S POST-9/11 PRESIDENCY

 

Charlie Savage, Pulitzer Prize winning, New York Times journalist,

and author, Power Wars: Inside Obama’s Post-9/11 Presidency, charliesavage.com <http://www.charliesavage.com/>
 

Friday, December 4, 2015, 4 - 5.30 pm

 

MIT, Stata Center Room 32-155, 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA

 

Barack Obama campaigned on a promise of change from George W. Bush’s “global war on terror.”  Yet from drone strikes and indefinite detention to surveillance and military tribunals, Obama ended up continuing -- and in some cases expanding -- many policies he inherited.  What happened?

Based on confidential interviews with more than 150 current and former officials and access to previously unreported documents, Charlie Savage tells the inside story of how the Obama administration charted its path through ceaseless dilemmas -- including its decisions to keep the then-secret National Security Agency program that collected records of every American's phone calls, raid Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan, and bomb Libya.  Savage also pieces together the first comprehensive history of how American surveillance secretly developed over the past 35 years, synthesizing recent revelations and filling in gaps with new reporting.  charliesavage.com <http://www.charliesavage.com/>
Moderator:  Deborah Hurley, Fellow, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, scholar.harvard.edu/deborah_hurley <http://scholar.harvard.edu/deborah_hurley>
Discussants:  Kade Crockford, Director, Technology for Liberty Program, ACLU of Massachusetts, aclum.org/about/staff-advocates/kade-crockford <https://aclum.org/about/staff-advocates/kade-crockford>; Timothy Edgar, Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies and Public Affairs, Brown University, watson.brown.edu/people/fellow/edgar <http://watson.brown.edu/people/fellow/edgar>; and Susan Landau, Professor of Cybersecurity Policy, Worcester Polytechnic  Institute, privacyink.org <http://www.privacyink.org/>
Sponsor:  MIT Cryptography and Information Security Group, toc.csail.mit.edu/cis <http://toc.csail.mit.edu/cis>
Co-hosts:  Data Privacy Lab, Harvard University, dataprivacylab.org <http://www.dataprivacylab.org/>; Internet Policy Research Initiative, MIT, internetpolicy.mit.edu <https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/>; and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, watson.brown.edu <http://watson.brown.edu/>
Contact:  Debbie Lehto, dlehto at csail.mit.edu <mailto:dlehto at csail.mit.edu>
http://toc.csail.mit.edu/node/428 <http://toc.csail.mit.edu/node/428>
 

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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Gus Zahariadis
Assistant to the Director
Program in Science, Technology, and Society

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