From ACT! for America: Announcing National Conference speakers

Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 11:35 AM
Subject: Announcing National Conference speakers

Visit our News page February 24, 2012 Announcing National Conference & Legislative Briefing speakers confirmed thus far Dear Lee, We're pleased to announce the list of speakers we have confirmed thus far for our 2012 National Conference and Legislative Briefing, June 27 – 29 in Washington, D.C. This is an outstanding lineup of dynamic experts and engaging speakers who collectively have many, many decades of experience in issues ranging from national security to terrorism. To find out more information about the conference, click here. To register, click here. Last year we sold out, and we're already 25% full for this year—so don't delay! To make your hotel reservation at our special discounted group rate call the Omni Shoreham Hotel at 800.843.6664, or book your room online here. Here are the four speakers we have confirmed thus far. Clare Lopez Clare Lopez is a strategic policy and intelligence expert with a focus on national defense, Islam, Iran, and counterterrorism issues. Currently a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and the Clarion Fund and vice president of the Intelligence Summit, she formerly was a career operations officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, a professor at the Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies, and Executive Director of the Iran Policy Committee from 2005-2006. She is co-author/editor of the Center for Security Policy's Team B II study, "Shariah: The Threat to America." We at ACT! for America regard this study so highly we use it to train our staff. Kenneth Timmerman Best-selling author Kenneth R. Timmerman has spent his career investigating the dark side of national security. Over the past three decades he has interviewed dissidents behind the Iron Curtain, covered numerous Middle East wars and false-hope peace treaties, interviewed suicide bombers, debriefed defectors from Iranian intelligence organizatons, and covered the plight of Christians persecuted for their faith. His most recent work of non-fiction, Shadow Warriors: Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender, exposes a secret intelligence war, fought not against our enemies abroad, but by partisan bureaucrats and their allies in Congress and the media against a sitting United States president. For his work in exposing the Islamic Republic of Iran's nuclear weapons program, he was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize by former Swedish deputy Prime Minister Per Ahlmark. R. James Woolsey Mr. Woolsey previously served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations, most recently (1993-95) as Director of Central Intelligence. During his 12 years of government service, in addition to heading the CIA and the Intelligence Community, Mr. Woolsey was: Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989–1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977–1979; andGeneral Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970–1973. He serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy and is currently Co-Chairman of the Committee on the Present Danger. He has also been a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999–2000; and The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998. Dr. Tawfik Hamid Dr. Tawfik Hamid is an Islamic thinker and reformer, and one time Islamic extremist from Egypt. He was a member of a terrorist Islamic organization JI with Dr. Ayman Al-Zawaherri, who is now the leader of Al-Qaeda. Some twenty-five years ago, he recognized the threat of Radical Islam and the need for a reformation based upon modern peaceful interpretations of classical Islamic core texts. He has appeared on shows spanning the spectrum from CNN to Fox News, and his articles and op-ed pieces have appeared in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Daily News, and the Jerusalem Post. Dr. Hamid's exceptional knowledge of the jihadi mindset has led him to be a guest speaker at many reputable private and governmental forums. Currently Dr. Hamid is a Senior Fellow and Chair for the Study of Islamic Radicalism at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies and he is the author of Inside Jihad: Understanding and Confronting Radical Islam. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Make sure you receive all of your messages from ACT for America. Add actforamerica@donationnet.net to your address book as an approved email sender. 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