hosting our discussion today is cully stimson is. mr. stimson is manager of our national security law program. he is also a senior legal fellow in the katherine and shelby davis institute for national security and foreign policy. he is a nationally recognized expert on homeland security as well as crime control. he writes and lectures widely on these issues as well as military detention and commissions, intelligence and criminal law immigration and the war on drugs. before joining us here in 2007 he served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs. he has also worked as a prosecutor at the local state and federal levels. he has served for three tours on active duty in the navy judge advocate general's corps as well. please join me in welcoming cully stimson is. cully? [applause] >> thank you very much, john. and i want to welcome all a of you to heritage on this second day of the summer 2015. a come years ago -- couple years ago my colleagues here at heritage formed an ebola task force to look at policy decisions and

please join me in welcoming cully stimson. cully? [applause] >> thank you very much, john. and want to welcome all of you to heritage on this is second at the summer, 2015. a couple years ago my colleagues at heritage form an ebola task force to look at the policy decisions and actions our federal government took with respect to the ebola outbreak. the task forces mandate was to identify and make certain findings on how the u.s. could better respond to future crises. they issued a heritage paper. these were scholars in and outside of heritage which was published on the 24th of april issue. three days later we hosted a panel event entitled ebola outbreak and response assessment of initial u.s. actions. we heard from dr. daniel has new ski from george washington university peter pham director of the africa center at the atlantic council and their very own dr. john o'shea senior fellow, center for health policy studies. they shared their thoughts on state court in federal preparedness can the world health organization, or w.h.o. preparedness and process to deal with ebola. the