Podcast appearances and mentions of Ryan C Crocker

Ryan C. Crocker is a career ambassador within the U.S. Foreign Service. Ambassador Crocker was in the Foreign Service for 37 years and, after retiring, was recalled to active duty by President Obama in 2011 to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan. His previous appointments included service as the U.S. Ambassador to Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Kuwait, Afghanistan and Lebanon. Crocker has received many of the nation’s highest honours, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In September 2004, President Bush conferred on him the personal rank of Career Ambassador, the highest in the Foreign Service. In May 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the establishment of the Ryan C. Crocker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Expeditionary Diplomacy. In July 2012, he was named an Honorary Marine.

Historically, protecting national security meant protecting one’s own citizens and sovereign territory from the threats or opposing interests of other nation-states. The concept has broadened, however, as transnational terrorists act with unprecedented scale and range: the threats they pose are of a magnitude previously only possible for nation-states, and they act indiscriminately among the several countries they feel justified in attacking. The United States’ interest in defeating these actors, then, is one that is shared by many other countries that are not necessarily our allies in a larger sense. -- In this the final episode of our three-part Security Partnership Series, we discussed the benefits and limits of partnerships with foreign government agencies for counterterrorism purposes. What conditions form the basis of a productive partnership? How might such partnerships compromise our operations? How do we decide how much information to share? Does partnering with a foreign country’s intelligence agency limit our own independent intelligence gathering capabilities? Perhaps most controversially – what limits can or should be imposed on the methods used to collect the counterterrorism intelligence to be shared? Of the foreign governments that have publicly complained about the United States’ use of certain signals intelligence capabilities, do their intelligence agencies nevertheless desire the information collected? Likewise, although the United States has banned certain interrogation methods domestically, might our intelligence agencies nevertheless want to obtain human intelligence information gathered by foreign agencies using those or other similar methods? -- Featuring: Amb. Ryan C. Crocker , Dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University; William K Lietzau, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, PAE; and Salli A. Swartz, Partner, Artus Wise Partners. Moderator: Adam Pearlman, Special Advisor to the International and National Security Law Practice Group.

Segment A: Global Citizen of the Year 2014 The World Affairs Council of Greater Hampton Road's Ryan C. Crocker Global Citizen of the Year Award is given each year to individuals who have made substantial contributions to the furthering of peace and understanding across the globe. The award takes its name from its first recipient, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, a diplomat with a distinguished 40-year career. On February 13 the Ambassador will present author and humanitarian, Le Ly Hayslip, with this year's honor. Segment B: America and Israel In advance of his January 29 United Jewish Federation of Tidewater Israel Todaylecture, presidential historian, Gil Troy, joins us for an exploration of America's complex connection to Israel, viewed through the lens of the American presidency.