Leading legal scholars and advocates discussed the FBI’s forthcoming guidelines governing criminal, national security and foreign intelligence investigations at a panel discussion sponsored by the American Constitution Society on Tuesday, September 9, 2008 -- a week before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at which FBI Director Robert Mueller will testify. The proposed guidelines have raised concerns that they will allow government surveillance based in part on race, ethnicity, national origin or religion.

Panelists included:

• Moderator, Muneer Ahmad, Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center and Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law (Windows Media)

• Joseph Zogby, Chief Counsel to Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) (Windows Media)

• Mike German, Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; former FBI Special Agent (Windows Media)

• Margaret Huang, Executive Director, Rights Working Group (Windows Media)

• Ilya Shapiro, Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Supreme Court Review, The Cato Institute (Windows Media)

Introduction to the event: (Windows Media)

Question & Answer session: (Windows Media)