Former CIA Director and Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter Headlined 2016 Sadat Forum

General Michael Hayden, former Director of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, visited the University of Maryland Thursday, March 24^th to speak at the 2016 Sadat Forum entitled “The Consequences of Cyber Spying for U.S Foreign Policy: From Berlin to Tehran.”

The 2016 Sadat Forum was sponsored by the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development in the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism in the Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

The forum also featured:

Dana Priest, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter who spent much of her career focusing on national security, military operations and the U.S. intelligence agencies. Priest is a journalism professor and the John S. and James L. Knight Chair in Public Affairs Journalism at the University of Maryland.

Shibley Telhami, a world-renowned author and expert on foreign policy in the Middle East. Telhami is a professor and the Anwar Sadat Chair for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The panelists engaged in lively debate and discussion about the importance of privacy versus protection when it comes to spying on enemies, foreign allies and United States citizens. General Hayden followed up the forum by signing copies of his new book: Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.

Published on Thu, Mar 17, 2016 - 3:37PM