Research, ideas, and leadership for a more secure, peaceful world
Mr Michael Allen, Founder and Managing Director of Beacon Global Strategies, will speak on intelligence reform and his new book, “Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11.”
Mr Michael Allen, Founder and Managing Director of Beacon Global Strategies, will speak on intelligence reform and his new book, “Blinking Red.”
Mr. Allen served in the White House for seven years in a variety of national security policy and legislative roles. At the National Security Council (NSC), he served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counter-proliferation Strategy from June 2007 to January 2009 under National Security Advisor Steve Hadley. In the wake of intelligence failures leading to 9/11, the U.S. government attempted a reform of the intelligence community, and it is this that Allen—a Bush administration and Capitol Hill veteran who participated in the effort as a White House liaison to Congress—chronicles in "Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11.” Allen will forecast the kinds of reform which the intelligence community must undergo in the future to avoid the mistakes of the past. Mr. Allen received his L.L.M. with distinction in International Law from the Georgetown University Law Center, his J.D. from the University of Alabama (cum laude), and his B.A. from Vanderbilt University.
This seminar is off the record and comments cannot be published without the consent of the speaker. The seminar is open to Harvard students, fellows, faculty and ID card holders.
