A New Counterterrorism Agenda for the New Congress

General Michael Hayden is a principal at the Chertoff Group. He was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency between 2006 and 2009. Before that, General Hayden served as the country’s first principal deputy director of national intelligence and was the highest-ranking intelligence officer in the armed forces. He also served as commander of the Air Intelligence Agency, director of the Joint Command and Control Warfare Center, director of the National Security Agency, and chief of the Central Security Service.

Captain Glenn Sulmasy is a professor of law and the chair of the humanities department at the US Coast Guard Academy. He has been on the faculty of the US Coast Guard Academy since July 2001. He has also served on the faculty of the International Law Department at the US Naval War College and has been an adjunct faculty member at the Roger Williams University School of Law. Captain Sulmasy publishes and lectures widely on the law of armed conflict, international law, and national security matters. He provides media commentary on national security matters to numerous outlets, including National Public Radio, the Associated Press, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of The National Security Court System: A Natural Evolution of Justice in an Age of Terror (Oxford University Press, 2009) and coeditor of International Law Challenges: Homeland Security and Combating Terrorism (Naval War College, 2006).

Marc Thiessen is a visiting fellow at AEI. A member of the White House senior staff under President George W. Bush, Mr. Thiessen served as chief speechwriter to the president and to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Before joining the Bush administration, Mr. Thiessen spent more than six years as spokesman and senior policy adviser to Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms (R-NC). His book on the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation program, Courting Disaster (Regnery Press, 2010), is a New York Times bestseller. At AEI, Mr. Thiessen writes about US foreign and defense policy issues for American.com and the Enterprise Blog. He is a weekly columnist for the Washington Post, and his articles can be found in many major publications.

John Yoo is a visiting scholar at AEI. Mr. Yoo has been a professor of law at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law since 1993. From 2001 to 2003, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the US Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. He was also general counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 1996. He is the author of Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush (Kaplan Publishing, 2010), War by Other Means: An Insider’s Account of the War on Terror (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), and The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 (University of Chicago Press, 2005).