Lecture Series

2006-2007 season

Oct. 15, 2007: Randall J. Larsen, author, "Our Own Worst Enemy": Nine days after 9/11, Colonel Randall J. Larsen, USAF (Ret), a leading homeland security advisor and analyst, smuggled a “weapon of mass destruction” into a meeting with Vice President Cheney. Two weeks later he did the same at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. In “OUR OWN WORST ENEMY: Asking the Right Questions About Security to Protect You, Your Family, and America” , Larsen asserts that these breakdowns in security were not due to poor execution, Instead, he says, they happen because our homeland security efforts are too often focused on asking the wrong questions,
Sept. 25, 2007: Dr. Cindy Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: This year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security controls total budget authority of about $44.6 billion – roughly $378 for every household in the United States. But how does DHS allocate that money among its many activities, and how wisely is the department spending those funds? Dr. Cindy Williams, a principal research scientist of the Security Studies Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will explore these questions during her Sept. 25 presentation at the George Bush Presidential Library: “The Strategic Implications of DHS Budgeting.”
2006-2007 season
Posters: A gallery of posters from the first ICHS Lecture to the latest.