Robert F. Turner
Served as national security adviser to a member of Senate Foreign Relations Committee when FISA first enacted in 1978.
Served as Counsel to the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board at the White House for 3 years, where he was the senior White House lawyer charged specifically with overseeing compliance with FISA.
Co-founded Center for National Security Law at the UVA Law School in 1981.
Three-term Chairman of ABA Standing Committee on Law & National Security.
Chair or Co-Chair of the Federalist Society’s National Security Law Subcommittee since its inception in the 1990s.
Wrote 1700-page SJD (doctoral) dissertation on “National Security and the Constitution,” with a special focus on the control of Intelligence activities.
Co-editor of 1400-page National Security Law casebook (authored Separation of Powers chapter).
Has testified before more than a dozen different committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, including appearing in September before the House Judiciary Committee on the FISA issue and before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence on the Geneva Conventions.
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