WASHINGTON, May 5, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute Homeland Security Program today releases details about certain sessions for the second annual forum on homeland security and counterterrorism, the Aspen Security Forum, to be held on July 27-30. A full schedule will be available on the forum website, , in early July. Dates and times of sessions are subject to change.
Notable sessions include:
July 27
"Afghanistan/Pakistan and the Nexus to Homeland Security" Admiral Eric Olson, Commander of US Special Operations Command, will appear in conversation with Martha Raddatz, ABC News' Chief Foreign Correspondent, at 6:00 p.m.July 28
TSA Administrator John Pistole will discuss aviation security with Jeanne Meserve, CNN's Homeland Security Correspondent, at 10:15 a.m."Terrorist Threat Picture and Counterterrorism Strategy" John McLaughlin, former Deputy and Acting CIA Director, and Charlie Allen, former CIA official and former Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, will appear in conversation with Michael Isikoff, NBC News' National Investigative Correspondent, at 12:45 p.m.Admiral Dennis Blair, former Director of National Intelligence, will discuss whether the cost of the war on terrorism is proportionate to the actual threat from Al Qaeda with CBS News' "60 Minutes" correspondent Les