The legendary New York City Police Commissioner tells whether in waging the war on terror we have struck the right balance between security and privacy.

Al Qaeda’s Christmas Day attempt to bomb a plane nearly spelled disaster. Obama said there was a systemic failure. Was it because the government failed to follow key recommendations in the 9/11 Commission Report?

Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, recently returned from Kabul where he helped McChrystal with the assessment. Now it’s all up to Petraeus.

Jack Goldsmith took on the White House. He reversed John Yoo’s opinion’s that blessed torture. But Bush and Cheney refused to back down and vetoed a bill proscribing waterboarding.

Does the Net help us catch terrorists or help al Qaeda recruit home-grown operatives? Hear why we are safer today than we were on 9/11. Learn the answers from NYPD Counterterrorism Czar Commissioner Richard Falkenrath. .

Is the Net a force for reform in the Islamic world or just a platform for Al Qaeda? Kohlmann, International Terrorism Consultant, and Cook, Douglas Dillon Fellow, CFR, discuss.

Is the newly created Director of National Intelligence just another layer of bureaucracy? Will intelligence reform prevent another disaster such as Iraq or a 9/11? Former 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean shares his views.