Objective: Ensure the audience enjoys the panel. Provide some grist for the mill on what some of the state-of-play versus art of the possible issues are. To reassure you as a neutral observer that the seniors in the government are profoundly concerned about protecting and maintaining individual liberties in this time of crisis.

• Oaths of Office ("… defend the Constitution …")
• We don’t use the assets we have now to collect against US citizens
• Civil liberties in the US will only be eroded to the extent that the general populace encourages that to happen.
• Civil liberties do both expand and contract over time
• Miranda rights
• "Right" of Privacy
• Church and State
• Outside the US is another issue entirely …
• Question back to the audience: "as an informed body, what "rights" are you willing to give up to achieve a specific level of security?