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New Frontier in Defense

Last Thursday, February 2, 2017, the National Committee played host to a who's-who of cyber policy experts in the United States. ...

The invitation to me from the National Committee on American Foreign Policy duly arrived. It created a major political storm…. Two days before the conference, President Clinton authorized a 48 hour visa that restricted me to the New York area. The backlash from the British government and system was hysterical. The Daily Telegraph summed it up by describing it as ‘the worst rift since Suez’….[There] can be no doubt that the granting of the visa was a major shift in U.S. foreign policy and it marked a defining moment in the development of the Irish peace process."

Gerry Adams, President, Sinn Féin