Vicki Divoll and Vincent Warren on Drones and Democracy
February 1, 2013
Bill explores the moral and legal implications of using drones to target our enemies — both foreign and American — as well as other intelligence issues with Vicki Divoll, a former general counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and former deputy legal adviser to the C.I.A.’s Counterterrorism Center, and Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. MORE
Prior to her work in academia, Divoll served as the General Counsel (2001-2003) and Minority Counsel (2000-2001) for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. During her time with the committee, Divoll was responsible for providing oversight of operational and policy issues in electronic surveillance, counterintelligence, covert action, and international terrorism. She worked on developing policy and drafting public law provisions, such as amendments to the National Surveillance Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Divoll was also responsible for drafting and shepherding Title IX of the Patriot Act, which established criteria for the sharing of intelligence information among government agencies following 9/11.
Before working for the Senate, Divoll was Assistant General Counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency, where she served under John Deutch and George Tenet as deputy legal advisor to the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center. While there, she provided guidance on a variety of issues, including criminal law, human rights, overseas covert operations, and interaction among U.S. intelligence agencies.
Divoll has written extensively on matters of intelligence policy and national security for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. She has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a J.D. from University of Virginia, and has completed fellowships at the United States Naval Academy’s Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, and the Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
Prior to joining CCR, Warren was a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, and a criminal defense attorney at the Legal Aid Society. While at the ACLU, he litigated Gratz v. Bollinger, a companion case to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision upholding affirmative action in college admissions; and White v. Martz, which was instrumental in establishing the first statewide public defender system in Montana. As a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society, Vincent also monitored the hearings of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.
Warren led the “Beyond Guantanamo: Rescue the Constitution” public outreach campaign at the Center for Constitutional Rights. The campaign focused on the consolidated cases of Al Odah v. United States and Boumediene v. Bush litigated by CCR, in which the government’s justification for the continued detention of five individuals at Guantanamo Bay was found to be insufficient. More recently, under Warren’s stewardship, the CCR has launched a federal class action lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s racial profiling and “stop and frisk” practices.
Warren received his B.A. at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and J.D. at Rutgers School of Law, and often writes on constitutional and human rights law in The New York Times and The Huffington Post.
Vicki Divoll
Lawyer and National Security Expert
Vicki Divoll is a lawyer and national security expert based in Washington D.C. Until 2012, Divoll taught United States Government and Constitutional Development at the United States Naval Academy.Prior to her work in academia, Divoll served as the General Counsel (2001-2003) and Minority Counsel (2000-2001) for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. During her time with the committee, Divoll was responsible for providing oversight of operational and policy issues in electronic surveillance, counterintelligence, covert action, and international terrorism. She worked on developing policy and drafting public law provisions, such as amendments to the National Surveillance Act of 1947 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. Divoll was also responsible for drafting and shepherding Title IX of the Patriot Act, which established criteria for the sharing of intelligence information among government agencies following 9/11.
Before working for the Senate, Divoll was Assistant General Counsel for the Central Intelligence Agency, where she served under John Deutch and George Tenet as deputy legal advisor to the CIA’s Counterterrorist Center. While there, she provided guidance on a variety of issues, including criminal law, human rights, overseas covert operations, and interaction among U.S. intelligence agencies.
Divoll has written extensively on matters of intelligence policy and national security for publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. She has a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and a J.D. from University of Virginia, and has completed fellowships at the United States Naval Academy’s Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, and the Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
Vincent Warren
Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights
Vincent Warren is Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a national legal and educational organization “dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.”Prior to joining CCR, Warren was a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union, and a criminal defense attorney at the Legal Aid Society. While at the ACLU, he litigated Gratz v. Bollinger, a companion case to the Supreme Court’s landmark decision upholding affirmative action in college admissions; and White v. Martz, which was instrumental in establishing the first statewide public defender system in Montana. As a staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society, Vincent also monitored the hearings of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa.
Warren led the “Beyond Guantanamo: Rescue the Constitution” public outreach campaign at the Center for Constitutional Rights. The campaign focused on the consolidated cases of Al Odah v. United States and Boumediene v. Bush litigated by CCR, in which the government’s justification for the continued detention of five individuals at Guantanamo Bay was found to be insufficient. More recently, under Warren’s stewardship, the CCR has launched a federal class action lawsuit challenging the New York Police Department’s racial profiling and “stop and frisk” practices.
Warren received his B.A. at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and J.D. at Rutgers School of Law, and often writes on constitutional and human rights law in The New York Times and The Huffington Post.
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