The line-up for the September 6-7 conference: Terrorism, Security and America’s Purpose: Towards a More Comprehensive Strategy continues to strengthen.
Rita Hauser is a well-known international lawyer, leading Republican Party stalwart in New York, a board member of the RAND Corporation, and Chair of the International Peace Academy that works closely with the United Nations.
George Soros is one of the world’s most successful fund managers and has written prolifically on international finance, global governance, and on shaping political environments conducive to sustainable democracy and “open societies.” He is founder and chairman of the Open Society Institute.
Lee Hamilton, is now President of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, is also the well-respected, long-serving former Chairman of the House International Relations Committee and served as Vice-Chair of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, the “9-11 Commission”.
Warren Rudman, former Republican Senator from New Hampshire, also served as Chairman of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, co-chaired with Gary Hart the United States Commission on National Security in the 21st Century, the so-called “Hart-Rudman Commission” which presciently anticipated a major terrorist event on U.S. soil in advance of 9/11.
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— Steve Clemons