MEDIA ADVISORY

New York University School of Law’s Center on Law and Security will host “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency” on Wednesday, September 17, 2008, at NYU School of Law, Furman Hall, Room 216, 225 Sullivan Street (between W. 3rd Street and Washington Square South). The event is free and open to the public. To RSVP, please call 212.992.8854 or email cls@juris.law.nyu.edu.

Adam Liptak, national legal reporter for The New York Times, will moderate a discussion with Center on Law and Security Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post Barton Gellman, the author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. Gellman’s new book studies Vice President Dick Cheney’s central role in the inner workings of the Bush administration through hundreds of interviews with Cheney allies as well as rivals, many speaking candidly on the record for the first time.

To make a press reservation, please contact Maggie McQuade at 212.992.8640 or margaret.mcquade@nyu.edu.

  • WHAT: “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency”
  • WHO: Barton Gellman, Center on Law and Security Fellow, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post, and author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency; Adam Liptak, national legal reporter, The New York Times
  • WHEN: Wednesday, September 17, 2008, 6:00-7:30 p.m.
  • WHERE: NYU School of Law, Furman Hall, Room 216, 225 Sullivan Street (between West 3rd Street and Washington Square South; Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street))

EDITOR’S NOTE
The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law is a bipartisan research and policy institute that is committed to examining the legal dimensions of counterterrorism and national security in the age of terror. The Center brings together national and international experts including policymakers, law enforcement officials, legal scholars, journalists, and others in an arena that generates local, national, and international awareness of security issues.

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