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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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Chatter: The ERAS Tour (Ben’s Version) with Benjamin Wittes
On April 13, 2022, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes conducted his first “special military operation” at…
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Unpacking Cyber Diplomacy with Ambassador Nathalie Jaarsma
This week, the UN ad hoc committee tasked with elaborating a cybercrime convention is meeting in New York. Delegates will be involved in in-depth negotiations…
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Zach Dorfman on “Spy Valley: An Engineer’s Nuclear Betrayal”
In May 1984, former U.S. Marine, engineer, and early Silicon Valley entrepreneur James Harper was sentenced to life in prison for his central role in an…
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The PEPFAR Reauthorization Battle, with Emily Bass
In 2003, President Bush created the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, and in the twenty years since, the program has been credited with…
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Does It Matter Whether Trump Believed His Own Lies?
It’s only been a few weeks since Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Donald Trump. But both he and his lawyers have already been previewing their case in…
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Rational Security: The “Donny with the Gold Hair” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Fulton County correspondent Anna Bower to talk through the week’s big news down south…
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Lawfare Archive: Allies: Faithful and Valuable Service
From May 16, 2022: In order to tell you this story, we need to start at the beginning, just before the U.S. invasion. After 9/11, the CIA set their sights on…
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Congressional Oversight, Post-Trump
Listeners of this podcast are probably familiar with Molly Reynolds’s work on Congress. She’s a Senior Fellow at Brookings and a Senior Editor at Lawfare—and…
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Chatter: Russian Spies in Reality and Fiction with Calder Walton
Dr. Calder Walton, assistant director of the Applied History Project and Intelligence Project at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and…
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Anna Bower on What Happened in Coffee County
Lawfare Fulton County Correspondent Anna Bower is the author of the Lawfare article entitled, “What the Heck Happened in Coffee County, Georgia?” It is a…
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Explaining the Michigan Fake Electors Prosecution
On July 18, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel unveiled criminal charges against 16 people—the “fake electors” from that state who featured in Trump’s…
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Emergency Edition: Trump Indicted in Fulton County, Georgia
On Monday, August 14th, former President Donald Trump was indicted by a grand jury in Fulton County for his alleged attempts to manipulate the electoral vote…
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Scheduling Update: Lawfare Live on Georgia Indictment
The district attorney for Fulton Co., Georgia, issued a fourth criminal indictment of former President Donald Trump late last night, for crimes relating to…
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Roger Parloff on Trump’s Vowed DC Trial Venue Change
On Aug. 6 former President Donald Trump announced on social media that he would “immediately” seek a “venue change ... out [of] D.C.” of his recent four-count…
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Rational Security: The “Dog Days” Edition
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott beat back the heat to dig into the week's big national security news stories, including:“ECOWAShed?” We are now several…
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Lawfare Archive: Lawrence Douglas on Presidential Election Concessions
From June 16, 2020: The 2020 presidential election is less than five months away. As the election inches closer and closer, concerns have grown about the…
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Does Trump Have to Attend His Own Trials?
Former President Trump has been arguing for some time now that the criminal charges he’s facing in New York, Florida, and D.C. are politically motivated. At a…
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Chatter: Covering the Justice Department During and After Trump, with Katie Benner
Katie Benner is a features writer for the New York Times, who covered the Justice Department for a number of years beginning in 2017. In a wide-ranging…
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Can We Build a Trustworthy Future Web?
The Task Force for a Trustworthy Future Web was put together by the Atlantic Council for a sprint study of the future of trust and safety in the ever-evolving…
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Asaf Lubin on Regulating Commercial Spyware
The increasingly pervasive use and abuse of spyware by governments around the world has led to calls for regulation and even outright bans. How should these…
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Can Torture Evidence Be Used at Guantanamo Bay?
Just weeks ago, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the life sentence of a Yemini national serving out his time at the Guantanamo Bay…
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Not Your Grandparents’ Far-Right Extremists
In the last year, the ADL and GLAAD tracked at least 356 incidents of anti-LGBTQ+ hate and extremism in the U.S. This marks an alarming rise over the past two…
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Rational Security: The “Third Time’s a Charm” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's YUGE national security news…
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Lawfare Archive: The Aftermath: Day Zero, Ground Zero
With the indictment and arraignment of former President Donald Trump this past week, Jan. 6 and its aftermath are very much on people's minds. So for today's…
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A ‘New Era in Police Reform?’ with Christy Lopez
On July 27, the Justice Department announced a sprawling civil rights investigation, also known as a pattern or practice investigation, into the City of…
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Chatter: The Story of Reality Winner with Tina Satter
In June 2017, FBI agents arrived at the home of Reality Winner, a translator working for the NSA, to question her about an unauthorized leak of classified…
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What Ukraine Tells Us About the Future of War
Over the past eighteen months, Ukraine has served as the stage for a proxy battle between superpowers, with the invading Russians on one side and a U.S.-led…
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Emergency Edition: The Trump Jan. 6 Indictment
On Tuesday, a D.C. grand jury voted to indict Donald Trump for a range of crimes that all involve the attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power…
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Bringing Digital Evidence into the Courtroom
In last month’s landmark settlement, the City of New York agreed to pay over $13 million to a group of 1,380 protestors who “were arrested and/or subjected to…
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Making Sense of the UFO Hearing with Shane Harris
This past week, the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs held a spirited hearing on an unusual topic…
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Rational Security: The “Norpett Returns” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by the long absent Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett to talk through the week’s big…
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Lawfare Archive: Cristina Rodríguez and Adam Cox on 'The President and Immigration Law'
From December 7, 2020: Jack Goldsmith spoke with Adam Cox and Christina Rodríguez, the authors of "The President and Immigration Law," a new book about the…
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Josh Geltzer on 702 Reauthorization
Joshua Geltzer is the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor at the White House, part of the National Security Council staff. He is the president's point person on…
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Chatter: Science Fiction and International Relations with Stephen Dyson
Creators of science fiction movies and television shows often build worlds with at least some attention to governance systems and international (or…
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Brazil’s Search for Accountability After Jan. 8
Last month, Brazil’s highest electoral court found that former President Jair Bolsonaro had abused his political power in the 2022 elections because of his…
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The Judicial Revolution Is Here
The first phase of Israel's judicial overhaul is now law. Huge numbers of people are in the streets, reservists are resigning, the stock market is tanking, and…
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Can Trump Be Tried in Four Places at Once?
Former President Trump is facing criminal charges in Florida and New York, and indictments are reportedly likely in Fulton County, Georgia, and Washington…
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The Justice Department Appeals Oath Keepers Sentences
On July 12, the Justice Department appealed the sentences of seven Oath Keepers convicted for Jan. 6-related crimes. Five have been convicted of seditious…
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Rational Security: The “Five Dollar Footlong-Gate” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott got together to NOT talk about that ONE big story that's not quite ripe yet. (You know the one. It…
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Lawfare Archive: Is Trump Creating a Deep State?
From November 18, 2020: In the waning days of his administration, the president has attempted to install a political loyalist as General Counsel of the…
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Asaf Lubin on Cyber Espionage and International Law
On June 16, the U.S. State Department discovered unauthorized access to its Exchange Online email services and reported it to Microsoft. Almost a month later…
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Chatter: National Security Insights from Board Games with Volko Ruhnke
Gaming might seem far removed from national security, but Volko Ruhnke's experience proves otherwise. During his career as an intelligence analyst and manager…
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Congress Investigates January 6 ... Again
Last month, the majority staff of the Senate Rules and Governmental Affairs Committee released a report entitled “Planned in Plain Sight: A Review of the…
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A Big Day in Trump Accountability
It was a big day in the legal travails of Donald Trump. We awoke this morning to news from the former president himself that he had received another target…
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Ukrainians Hit the Kerch Bridge ... Again
It was a busy weekend in the waters off of Ukraine and Russia. The Ukrainians hit—for the second time—the Kerch Bridge, which connects the Russian mainland…
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July Minipod: Senator Tuberville's Hold on Military Nominations
On July Minipod episode, Lawfare Associate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey sat down with Kori Schake, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionPam Samuelson on Copyright's Threat to Generative AI
The only thing more impressive than the performance of generative AI systems like GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion is the sheer volume of training data that went…
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Rational Security: The “Long Middle Finger of Europe” Edition
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Ravi Agrawal, Editor in Chief of Foreign Policy Magazine, to talk through the week’s big natsec news…
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Lawfare Archive: Kyle Langvardt on Platform Speech and the First Amendment
From December 8, 2020: On Monday, Lawfare released the first paper in its "The Digital Social Contract" paper series. For each paper, Alan Rozenshtein will be…
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Eric Adamson on the NATO Summit
The NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, just wrapped up, and the big news is that Sweden is in, and Ukraine is not. Eric Adamson of the Atlantic Council and the…
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Chatter: Renaming Military Bases and Principled Conservatism with Kori Schake
Kori Schake is the Director of Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute. She has also worked in policy positions at the State…
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Catching Up on the Trump Trials
Earlier this year, Donald J. Trump became the first former president to be criminally indicted. A few months later, he became the first former president to be…
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A Louisiana Judge's Dramatic Jawboning Decision
On July 4, a federal judge in Louisiana issued one of the most dramatic First Amendment rulings in recent memory. The case involves a variety of individuals…
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Charl van der Walt on Cyber Extortion
What are the latest trends in the ransomware-as-a-service ecosystem? Since at least May 27, the CL0P ransomware gang has been exploiting a previously unknown…
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Eric Goldstein of DHS on All Matters Cyber
Eric Goldstein is the Executive Assistant Director for Cybersecurity of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, having served previously as…
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Rational Security: The “BANG! POW! SPARKLE!” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott sat down to talk over the week's post-Independence Day national security news, including:“Oy Revolt.”…
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Lawfare Archive: Daniel Reisner on Law, Security, and Peace in the Middle East
From January 17, 2015: This week, Ben and Matt Waxman sat down with Daniel Reisner, former head of the International Law Branch of the Israeli Defense Forces…
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But Her Emails!
“But what about Hillary Clinton's emails,” a thousand voices have shouted since the Trump Mar-a-Lago indictment came down. It's not just politicians; it's…
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Chatter: Hockey, Global Politics, and Freedom with Ethan Scheiner
Political scientist Ethan Scheiner appeared on Chatter in early 2022, right before the Olympics in Beijing, to talk about the fascinating intersection of…
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Ass’t Treasury Secretary Paul Rosen on the CFIUS Process
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CFIUS, is one of the most important national security offices that you have probably never heard…