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How Should the U.S. Implement Information Sharing?

A Discussion on the Executive Order Strengthening the Sharing of

Terrorism Information to Protect Americans

When: 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm, November 9, 2004

Where : Potomac Institute for Policy Studies , 900 N Stafford St., Ste. 200, Arlington, VA

Panelists: Jim Dempsey (Center for Democracy and Technology); Tim Edgar (ACLU); Dan Gallington (Potomac Institute, Moderator); and Kim Taipale (Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy)

Program: In Section 4 of the August 27, 2004 Executive Order: “Strengthening the Sharing of Terrorism Information to Protect Americans”, the President directs the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of Central Intelligence make recommendations “on the establishment of executive branch-wide collection and sharing requirements, procedures, and guidelines for terrorism information to be collected within the United States, including, but not limited to, from publicly available sources, including nongovernmental databases.”

The purpose of this event is to consider the practical implementation of Section 4, the technological, policy and legal means to strengthen information sharing in light of the 9/11 Committee’s findings, and the requirements established in the new Executive Order itself.

Important questions to consider include:

• How should terrorism information requirements be determined?
• To what extent and under what circumstances should the information contained in nongovernmental databases be available to local law enforcement, federal law enforcement, and other agencies? and,
• What are the procedural, technical and oversight mechanisms that could ensure the proper use of this information?

Project Guardian, an effort at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies to examine the use of information technologies in the war against terrorism, has been involved with these issues for two years. For more information see http://www.potomacinstitute.org/research/projectguardian/pgintro.htm.

To RSVP: You can register by phone at 703/525-0770, by email to jgatchalian@potomacinstitute.org. Please provide your name, title, office, mailing address, phone, and email.