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The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon Edition
The Lawfare Podcast features discussions with experts, policymakers, and opinion leaders at the nexus of national security, law, and policy. On issues from foreign policy, homeland security, intelligence, and cybersecurity to governance and law, we have doubled down on seriousness at a time when others are running away from it. Visit us at www.lawfaremedia.org. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Greg Johnsen and Scott Anderson on the Fight Against the Houthis
Over the last two months, Houthi militants have waged more than 27 attacks against merchant shipping and U.S. and partner forces in the Red Sea, the Gulf of…
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Lawfare Archive: What Happens When We Don’t Believe the President’s Oath?
From March 4, 2017: Yesterday, Just Security and the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law hosted Benjamin Wittes for a conversation…
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Rational Security: The “Courtroom Drama” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett to discuss the week’s big national security and…
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Trump's Trials and Tribulations: The 14th Amendment Goes to the Supreme Court
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on January 11 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
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Lawfare Archive: Gregory Johnsen Answers "What is a Houthi?"
From September 26, 2015: On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Gregory Johnsen outlines the current state-of-play in Yemen. Johnsen, who is a writer-at-large for…
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Trump’s Civil Fraud Trial
On January 11, 2024, Donald J. Trump arrived in a New York courtroom for closing arguments in the civil fraud case against the former president, his company…
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Chatter: “The Day After” and Dad with A. B. Stoddard
Brandon Stoddard was one of the most accomplished executives in broadcast television history. In his career at ABC, he helped bring to the small screen such…
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Yuval Shany and Amichai Cohen on the Israeli Supreme Court's Bombshell
The Israeli Supreme Court—in the middle of the war in Gaza—handed down a decision that amounts to a kind of death blow to Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Aftermath S2E1 - The Grossly Impudent Lie
It’s been three years since the insurrection of January 6th. There have been congressional investigations, prosecutions, and legal reforms, and it’s looking…
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Israel, Gaza, and the Law of War
The conflict between Israel and Hamas is provoking heated debates about which side is in the right. Each accuses the other of things like war crimes…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionHow Are the TikTok Bans Holding Up in Court?
In May 2023, Montana passed a new law that would ban the use of TikTok within the state starting on January 1, 2024. But as of today, TikTok is still legal in…
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Ask Us Anything About 2023
Welcome to our annual “Ask Us Anything” episode, a hallowed Lawfare tradition. Every news alert in 2023 seemed to bring new questions. But fear not, because…
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Lawfare Archive: Hardcore Dan Carlin
From September 27, 2014: A few weeks ago, Benjamin Wittes began listening to a podcast called Hardcore History, which is the brainchild of a fellow named Dan…
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Rational Security: The “Unboxing Day” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott rang in the New Year with co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes by discussing some listener-submitted topics…
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Lawfare Archive: The Future of Warfare
From February 9, 2019: From the increasing development of autonomous weapons systems to the expansion of the traditional battlefield to cyber and outer space…
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Sam Lebovic on the Espionage Act's Unlikely History
Former President Trump’s prosecution for mishandling classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate has brought an old law back to the front pages—the Espionage…
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Chatter Archive: Spy Movies with John Sipher
This week, we're taking time off for the holidays, so we reached into the Chatter archives for one of our favorites.In this episode from January 13, 2022…
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America’s First War On Terror with Fergus Bordewich
Between 1865 and 1872, the first iteration of the Ku Klux Klan conducted a reign of terror across the former Confederate States, harassing, intimidating, and…
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Amanda Tyler on Rahimi and Taking Guns Away From Loyalists
The Supreme Court last month heard oral arguments in United States v. Rahimi, in which the Court will decide the constitutionality of a federal law that…
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The Court at War
The Supreme Court during World War II issued some of the most notorious opinions in its history, including the Japanese exclusion case, Korematsu v. United…
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Rational Security: The “Arose Such a Clatter” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett and Cyber Fellow Eugenia Lostri to talk through the big…
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Year-End Event, Part Two: A Conversation with the Lawfare Team
It's part two of our Lawfare year-end event. Yesterday, we brought you the headliner conversation with Adam Kinzinger. Today, it's three panels of Lawfare…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Removal, Not to Federal Court but From the Colorado Ballot
It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” this one recorded on December 21 in front of a live audience on YouTube and Zoom. This week, Lawfare…
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A Conversation with Adam Kinzinger
The other day before a live audience, we had our Lawfare year-end extravaganza. It was two hours long, so we've broken it up for purposes of the podcast. In…
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Three CISA Senior Advisers on Secure by Design
Secure by Design means different things to different people. As part of Lawfare’s ongoing project to understand what Secure by Design might mean in practice…
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Chatter: Secrecy and Transparency in Early America, with Katlyn Carter
Modern representative democracy was born in darkness. Transparency in representative bodies can spur unintended consequences for freedom, while secrecy in…
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The Colorado Supreme Court Has Its Day
In an end-of-the-day ruling on Tuesday, the Colorado Supreme Court struck Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot on grounds that he was disqualified…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionJeff Horwitz on Broken Code and Reporting on Facebook
In 2021, the Wall Street Journal published a monster scoop: a series of articles about Facebook’s inner workings, which showed that employees within the…
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A Conversation with Bryan Vorndran, Assistant Director of the FBI Cyber Division
Bryan Vorndran is Assistant Director of the FBI's Cyber Division, a position he's held since around March 2021. Prior to that, he was the special agent in…
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Joel Braunold on Gaza and What Comes Next
The conflict in Gaza may be approaching a turning point. An increasingly frustrated Biden administration has reportedly told Israeli officials that the…
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Rational Security: The “A Friend in Need is a Friend Security Guaranteed” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk through the week’s big national security news…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Mr. Smith Goes to the Supreme Court, not the D.C. Circuit
It's another edition of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on Thursday before a live audience of Lawfare Material Supporters. This week, Lawfare…
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Lawfare Archive: Jim Baker and Carl Ghattas on Section 702
From July 29, 2017: On December 31, 2017, Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act will sunset. While U.S. officials insist that the provision authorizes…
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Fossil Fuel Flops at COP28
According to the resolution signed at the end of the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change…
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Chatter: The Ghost Army of World War II with Journalist Rick Beyer
In the summer of 1944, a group of artists, visual designers and sound engineers--all of them GIs--began a series of secret operations in occupied France. Their…
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A New United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism
Ben Saul is the Challis Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney, Australia, whose internationally recognized work has focused specifically…
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Argentina’s New President: An Anarcho-capitalist in the Pink House
You may have heard of Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president, thanks to some of his eccentricities, like his five cloned dogs or his reliance on a chainsaw…
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Preston Marquis, Molly Reynolds, and Benjamin Wittes on the Two House FISA Sec. 702 Bills
FISA Section 702 is set to expire on Dec. 31, 2023. Last week, two bills were marked up by two different House committees—one in the House Judiciary Committee…
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The Complicated Politics of Ukraine Aid
The Senate last week failed to move forward the national security supplemental, which includes a large package of aid for Ukraine. The holdup? Migration at the…
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Rational Security: The “Based in Eunuchs” Edition
This week on Rational Security, co-hosts Quinta and Scott were joined by co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk over the week’s big national security news…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: A Fulton County Hearing, Filings in D.C., and 14th Amendment Updates
It's another edition of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on Thursday before a live audience of Lawfare Material Supporters. Lawfare Senior Editor…
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Lawfare Archive: Matt and Ken Speak at Hoover on Autonomous Weapons
From November 6, 2013: On October 25, 2013, the Hoover Institution held a day-long media colloquium out at Stanford University for a first-rate group of…
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Graham Allison on Henry Kissinger
Last week, former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger passed away. To assess his legacy, Jack Goldsmith sat down with Graham…
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Chatter: World War I and Intelligence in American Memory, with Mark Stout
World War I was a seminal event for American national security and foreign policy, as the United States deployed nearly two million soldiers and sailors to…
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Preparing for War with Bradley Onishi
Watching the footage of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, Bradley Onishi thought to himself, “If I hadn’t left evangelicalism…
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Bill Wright on the AI Executive Order
A little over a month ago, President Biden issued a sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) covering a broad set of AI issues, such as…
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Two Courts Rule on Presidential Immunity
On Friday, two courts weighed in on the question of presidential immunity. First, Judge Chutkan of the DC District Court ruled that Trump is not immune from…
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Matthew Tokson on Government Purchases of Private Data
Is the Fourth Amendment doing any work anymore? In a forthcoming article entitled “Government Purchases of Private Data,” Matthew Tokson, a professor at the…
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Rational Security: The “We’re Moving to Microsoft” Edition
This week on Rational Security, a contentedly full post-Thanksgiving Scott and Quinta sat down with two Lawfare colleagues—Senior Editor and Brookings…
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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Gag Orders, Telephones, and Other Stuff
It's another edition of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on Thursday before a live audience of Lawfare Material Supporters. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief…
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Lawfare Archive: Jim Baker on AI and Counterintelligence
From September 25, 2018: The United States has become the global leader in both defense and private-sector AI. Inevitably, this has led to an environment in…
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Anna Bower Critiques the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Anna Bower is a Legal Fellow at Lawfare and our Fulton County Correspondent, and has been digging into the weird events in Coffee County in the aftermath of…
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Comparing Civilian Casualty Tolerance in the Israel-Hamas War to the War Against ISIS with Mark Lattimer
Israel’s military response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre has raised deep concern from international legal observers and the general public. The IDF’s tactics have…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionWill Generative AI Reshape Elections?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard a great deal over the last year about generative AI and how it’s going to reshape various aspects…
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U.S. Arms Transfers to Israel, with Brian Finucane and Josh Paul
Last month, following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, President Biden announced that his administration would ask Congress for “an unprecedented support…
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November Minipod: The U.S. and Egypt’s Relationship
On this month’s minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey sat down with Lawfare Deputy Foreign Policy Editor Dana Stuster to…
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Tiana Epps-Johnson on Lawsuits and the Big Lie
Tiana Epps-Johnson is the Executive Director of the Center for Tech and Civic Life, an organization which provides technical and financial assistance to…
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Lawfare Archive: Building a Bridge Between 20th Century Law and 21st Century Intelligence
From November 7, 2015: Last week, George Washington University and the CIA co-hosted an event entitled Ethos and Profession of Intelligence. As part of the…
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Lawfare Archive: The Jerusalem Embassy Opening and Protests in Gaza
From May 19, 2018: The past week saw the culmination of a major shift in U.S. policy as the United States formally opened its embassy in Jerusalem. Yet ongoing…
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What Disqualifying Trump From the 2024 Ballot Would Mean for Election Law
In the past few weeks, there have been several notable developments in lawsuits seeking to disqualify Donald Trump from the 2024 election under Section 3 of…