Title: Understanding Current National Security Issues

Location: St. Ambrose University Rogalski Center, 518 West Locust St.

Cost: Free

Time: 2-4 p.m.

Description:

Iowa has a unique status as the first presidential caucus state, and speakers will focus on questions Iowans should ask presidential candidates sweeping through the state.

Speakers include Ray McGovern, a retired CIA analyst turned political activist, who was a CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990, and in the 1980s, chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared the president's daily brief. Coleen Rowley, an Iowa native, is the retired FBI agent whistleblower after 9/11 on the FBI’s failures. Between them, they have over 51 years of service in different levels of the two best-known U.S. intelligence agencies. Since leaving the agencies, they have worked for new ideas for peace and justice.

The event is co-sponsored by the Quad-City Times, St. Ambrose University, and the Quad-City Chamber of Commerce

For more information, contact Paul Foley at 563 333-6025 or at [email protected] or John Ivens 563-503-0564 or at [email protected].