dana priest of the "washington post" and "wall street journal" reported devlin barrett. from the bipartisan policy center homeland security project event, this is just over one hour. >> good morning, everybody the i'm jason but it's o welcome her to the bipartisan policy center. also a pleasure to be here on behalf of governor tom kean and lee hamilton who are the chairs of our homeland security program for sponsoring this morning's event. the core aspiration of our work on homeland security is to be an accident bipartisan voice looking at these key homeland and national security questions. there are a lot of themes as you can imagine that animate the conversation but there's none that's more pervasive in my mind or dynamic than the sun and the question of the relationship in our society of security and liberty. it is a theme that has been at the core of our governments imagination about the role of government really since the very beginning of the republic and its one we believe we will be wrestling with for hopefully the millennium to come. today's program will focus o

we have devlin barrett from "the wall street journal," dana priet from "the washington post," and sharingn the security council, frances townsend. and another pulitzer prize winner from the "new york times," david singer." i would like to stop the-- startthe questions with dana. i'm hoping we really have a conversation. dana, in the "frontline" interview, but you say you try to figure out how to get as much information to the public without damaging national security. how did you decide what was and was not damaging to? -- to national security? >> this is an issue close to my heart. i do think it's very important to probe this issue of this line, in my mind, that i try to have -- the public's right and my responsibility to bring information to the public in the realm of national security because it is the most important thing that the government does. we should know what they're doing in our name. there's a line where you can cross it and you would actually endanger lives, or endanger operations, which is a very important but controversial question, too, because that's a little more diffi