Feb 22, 2012 7:30pm

Military Intelligence Complex

Dana Priest is a two-time Pulitzer prize winning investigative reporter for The Washington Post. She covered the invasion of Panama, reported from Iraq, covered the Kosovo war, and has traveled widely with Army units in Asia, Africa and South America and on peacekeeping duty in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. She is currently working on a new book, Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State.

Mar 14, 2012 7:30pm

Electronic Underworld

Gen. Michael Hayden is former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and former Director of the the nation's most secretive intelligence organization, the National Security Agency. Appointed by Presidents Clinton and Bush, Hayden led those agencies between 1999 – 2009, during the 9/11 episode and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

March 21, 2012 7:30pm

HUMan INTelligence in the Digital Age

Robert Grenier served 27 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, most recently as head of its Counterterrorism Center.  Among previous assignments, he led agent training at “The Farm,”  was CIA representative to the White House on Iraq during the 2003 invasion, and, as CIA station chief in Islamabad, Pakistan, directed operations against the Taliban before, during and after the 9/11 attacks.

Apr 4, 2012 7:30pm

Red Cell!

Eric C. Anderson is one of five career intelligence personnel on the Central Intelligence Agency’s “Red Cell,” tasked with challenging conventional analysis. Since the 1990s he has worked at the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and as a senior intelligence officer for the U.S. government in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Apr 11, 2012 7:30pm

Cyber Security: Grappling with the Risk

Melissa Hathaway served both the Obama and Bush administrations as a leader in understanding cybersecurity. She worked in the office of the Director of National Intelligence and on the White House National Security Council staff, where she created a new Cyber Security office. She launched the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative in both presidential administrations.

May 2, 2012 7:30pm

The Future of Intelligence and Espionage

Matthew M. Aid is a leading intelligence historian and expert on the National Security Agency. He was instrumental in exposing that U.S. intelligence agencies had been improperly "reclassifying" and removing documents from the National Archives to keep them secret. He is a former Russian linguist and author of Intel Wars: The Secret History of the Fight Against Terror (2012), Secret Sentry: The Untold History of the National Security Agency (2009) and co-editor of Secrets of Signals Intelligence During the Cold War and Beyond (2001). He is a regular commentator on intelligence matters for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the National Journal, the Associated Press, CBS News, National Public Radio (NPR) and others.