National Security and Freedom of the Press Thursday, September 7, 2006, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036Please register for this event online at www.aei.org/event1383. Increasingly in the past year, the news media have published classified information that exposed sensitive national security programs. In light of these revelations, concerns have been raised over the extent to which the publication of classified material affects American national security.Is the First Amendment an absolute right, or are there circumstances in which our freedoms must be limited? Does freedom of the press constitute a license to publish any and all classified material, or can such publication be treated as a crime? If there are limitations on the freedom to publish, who should impose such limits? AEI will host a panel of experts in journalism and national security to address these pressing questions. 10:45 a.m. Registration11:00 Panelists: Michael Isikoff, Newsweek Andrew McCarthy, Foundation for Defense of Democracies Stuart Taylor, National Journal R. James Woolsey, former CIA director Moderator: Michael A. Ledeen, AEI12:30 p.m. Adjournment