We're having the
Washington equivalent of a barn-raising: A daylong policy symposium, followed
by drinks and carrying on at night.
Here are some of the
nerd celebrities who will be speaking:
Ambassador Anne Patterson, former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
Rand Beers, Undersecretary for the National Protection and Programs Directorate at the Department
of Homeland Security
Admiral
Patrick Walsh, Commander of the U.S. Pacific
Fleet
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Bing West, author
of The
Wrong War, The
Strongest Tribe, and The
Village
Max Kelly, former
Chief Security Officer at Facebook
Jim Miller,
Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
Rajiv Chandrasekaran,
Associate Editor at the Washington Post and author of Imperial
Life in the Emerald City
Ellen Nakashima,
National News Reporter at the Washington Post
Steve Coll,
President of the New America Foundation and author of Ghost
Wars and The
Bin Ladens
Shadi Hamid, Director
of Research at the Brookings Doha Center
Karen House, former
Publisher of the Wall Street Journal
Plus the CNAS gang
For more
info and to try to get in, click here.
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