Assessing the Justice Department's Present & Future:
Justice, Politics, Law, & National Security in America
Thursday September 3rd | 2:00PM ET
A Discussion with
Joshua Geltzer
Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Joshua Larocca
Senior Managing Director of Stroz Friedberg, an Aon company
David Rohde
Executive Editor of newyorker.com
Author, In Deep: The F.B.I., the C.I.A., and the Truth about America’s ‘Deep State'
and
Karen J. Greenberg
Director, Center on National Security
On September 3rd at 2 pm CNS hosted a panel discussion on the Department of Justice and the intersection of law, national security, and politics. We discussed the relationship between politics and the Department's national security work, provided historical context, and considered recommendations for the future.
Joshua Geltzer is the Executive Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and Visiting Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Geltzer previously served as Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council staff from 2015 to 2017. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Legal Advisor to the National Security Council and as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the U.S. Department of Justice. Gelzter is also an International Security Program Fellow at New America and an Executive Editor at Just Security.
Joshua Larocca is the Senior Managing Director of Stroz Friedberg, an Aon company. Larocca previously served as a Trial Attorney in the Counterterrorism Section at the Department of Justice. In this role, he was responsible for investigating and prosecuting international and domestic terrorism cases, including terrorist financing, material support, money laundering and economic sanctions matters.
David Rohde the Executive Editor of newyorker.com. Rohde is a former reporter for Reuters, the New York Times, and the Christian Science Monitor. He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1996 for stories that helped expose the Srebrenica massacre during the war in Bosnia. In 2009, he shared a Pulitzer Prize with a team of Times reporters for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He is the author of, most recently, In Deep: The F.B.I., the C.I.A., and the Truth about America’s ‘Deep State,' along with numerous other books.