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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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The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatter: Politicians and White House Plumbers with Olivia Nuzzi
Olivia Nuzzi gets Washington in a way many journalists don’t. As the Washington correspondent for New York magazine, she has written perceptive, piercing, and…
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Lawfare Archive: Dara Lind on Immigration and the Southern Border
From May 7, 2021: Over its first 100 days in office, the Biden administration has faced a difficult set of policy challenges at America's southern border…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionBrian Fishman on Violent Extremism and Platform Liability
Earlier this year, Brian Fishman published a fantastic paper with Brookings thinking through how technology platforms grapple with terrorism and extremism, and…
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Fionnuala Ní Aoláin on Regulating Spyware
The term “spyware” refers to software that's designed to infiltrate, monitor, and extract sensitive information from a user's device without their knowledge or…
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Ali Breland on Germany’s Neo-Nazi Resurgence
Since 2012, Germany has accepted more refugees than any other country in Europe aside from Turkey. The German government has dispersed these asylum seekers and…
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El Salvador’s President Cracks Down on Gangs—and Democracy
Since March 2022, El Salvador has been under a state of exception as its President Nayib Bukele seeks to crack down on the country’s powerful gangs. Bukele…
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Treaties and Dysfunctional Diplomacy
The Constitution specifies only one process for making international agreements—Article II gives the president the power to make treaties provided that…
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Rational Security: The “Q Agone” Edition
This week on Rational Security, a Quinta-less Alan and Scott were joined by Lawfare legal fellow Saraphin Dhanani to talk through the week's big national…
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Lawfare Archive: David Priess on the History of the President's Daily Brief
From July 7, 2020: David Priess is a former CIA briefer for the Attorney General and the FBI director, and he's the author of "The President's Book of Secrets…
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Boys With a Bit Less Pride
Yesterday was verdict day for the Proud Boys. Mid-morning, the jury notified Judge Tim Kelly that it had reached a partial verdict, and that partial verdict…
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Bridget Dooling and Mark Febrizio on Robotic Rulemaking
At the core of the regulatory state is the notice and comment process. Agencies propose what they're going to do, the public gets to comment, and agencies have…
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Jim Dempsey and Jonathan Spring on Adversarial Machine Learning and Cybersecurity
Risks associated with the rapid development and deployment of artificial intelligence are getting the attention of lawmakers. But one issue that may not be…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionCox and Wyden on Section 230 and Generative AI
Generative AI products have been tearing up the headlines recently. Among the many issues these products raise is whether or not their outputs are protected by…
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Cyber in the CIA with CIA Deputy Director David Cohen
David Cohen is the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, a position he held also during the Obama administration. He's also been Under Secretary…
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Chatter: Space Diplomacy and Satellite Data with Mariel Borowitz
As satellites around the planet proliferate, the tug they feel from international tensions seems to rival the gravitational pull exerted by the Earth itself…
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Lawfare Archive: Elizabeth Shackelford on 'The Dissent Channel'
From May 13, 2020: Scott R. Anderson sat down with Elizabeth Shackelford, a former foreign service officer whose late 2017 resignation became a sign of growing…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionAn Interview with Meta’s Chief Privacy Officers
In 2018, news broke that Facebook had allowed third-party developers—including the controversial data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica—to obtain large…
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Parloff and Buchman on the Proud Boys Trial
The Proud Boys trial has gone to the jury. It is the longest Jan. 6 case to date and the third case to involve seditious conspiracy charges against senior…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionEugene Volokh on AI Libel
If someone lies about you, you can usually sue them for defamation. But what if that someone is ChatGPT? Already in Australia, the mayor of a town outside…
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Ashley Merryman on the ‘Dangerous’ Cycle of Pentagon Sexual Harassment Policy
April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention month. It’s a time—recognized by civilian and U.S. military communities—intended to promote the prevention of…
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Polina Ivanova on Evan Gershkovich’s Detention
Evan Gershkovich has been in Russian detention for the last several weeks. He is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and he’s the latest American taken…
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Rational Security: The “Catch More Flies with Shugerman” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by law professor extraordinaire Jed Shugerman to talk over his controversial take on the…
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Lawfare Archive: 'National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press'
From April 20, 2021: Jack Goldsmith sat down with Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, and Geoffrey Stone, the Edward H. Levy Distinguished…
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The Lazarus Heist: Season 2, with Jean Lee and Geoff White
Over the past decade, North Korea has taken on an exceptional global role: a sovereign state believed to be at the head of an unprecedented international…
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Margot Kaminski on Regulating AI Risks
In the last few months we've seen an explosion of new AI products, especially those built around large language models. And in response, we've also heard calls…
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Democratic Decline in Tennessee
Early this month, the Republican supermajority in the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel two Democratic lawmakers who had participated in a…
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Cyber Leadership at ODNI with Chris Fonzone and Laura Galante
Chris Fonzone is the General Counsel of ODNI and has worked in senior legal roles at the Defense Department, the National Security Council, and the Department…
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Vanuatu's Big Climate Win with Melissa Stewart
The Republic of Vanuatu, a small island nation in the South Pacific, just won a big victory in New York City. At the end of March, the UN General Assembly…
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Chatter: Reporting from the Front Lines with Nancy Youssef
Nancy Youssef has reported on war and conflict around the world and from Washington. As a young journalist, she went to Iraq and sensed early on that a war…
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Lawfare Archive: The Attack in Saudi Arabia
From September 17, 2019: Tensions in the Middle East are at a high point. Over the weekend, large Saudi oil facilities were attacked. The Yemeni Houthis jumped…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionA TikTok Ban and the First Amendment
Over the past few years, TikTok has become a uniquely polarizing social media platform. On the one hand, millions of users, especially those in their teens and…
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The Saudi-Iran Deal Featuring China
A few weeks ago, China made headlines for brokering a deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia to thaw diplomatic relations after seven years of cutting ties and…
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Rid and Toler on the Latest Megaleak
Thomas Rid is a Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Aric Toler is the Director of Research and…
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Craig Timberg on the Vulkan Files
Document leaking has been in the news lately—and not just stories about the leaking of U.S. intelligence documents. On March 30, 2023, the Washington Post…
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India’s Democracy Under Modi
On March 23, 2023, an Indian court found Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s principal opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, guilty of defaming the Prime Minister and…
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Rational Security: The “24-Hour News Psychos” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to celebrate the return of the complete media madhouse…
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Lawfare Archive: War in Gaza
From August 2, 2014: This week, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes asked three of his colleagues—all from the Brookings Center on Middle East Policy—to…
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Rob Joyce, NSA Director of Cybersecurity
Rob Joyce is the Director of the Cybersecurity Directorate at the National Security Agency. He's been NSA's top cryptologic representative in the United…
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Finland Joins NATO, with Henri Vanhanen and Minna Ålander
Finland is in NATO. This week, the ratification was made complete, and the country joined the North Atlantic alliance. To talk through how it got there…
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Emergency Edition: The Indictment of Donald Trump
The grand jury indictment of Donald Trump in the Supreme Court of the State of New York has been unsealed. It involves Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, David…
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Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine and the International Legal Order
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has tested the international legal order like never before. For many, the fact that a nuclear power and member of the U.N…
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Cybersecurity and AI
Hosted by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Cyber Initiative and Aspen Digital, Verify 2023 brings together journalists and cyber and tech policy…
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Chatter: Debunking Nuclear Proliferation Myths with Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer
Misperceptions about nuclear proliferation attempts abound, particularly when we find authoritarian leaders involved. It is easy to picture these determined…
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Lawfare Archive: John Sipher on Spy Swaps: Past, Present, and Future
From January 8, 2019: The Russian government's recent arrest of American Paul Whelan and its charges against him have many politicians and pundits speculating…
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Biden’s Executive Order on Commercial Spyware
On March 27, the Biden administration issued an Executive Order on Prohibition on Use by the United States Government of Commercial Spyware that Poses Risks to…
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Israel’s Overlapping Crises
For months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been promising a set of legal reforms favored by partners in his far-right coalition government that many…
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Talking IoT Security with Google
Tatyana Bolton is a Security Policy Manager working on cybersecurity at Google, and Dave Kleidermacher is the Vice President of Android Security & Privacy at…
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Ashley Deeks on International Regulation of National Security AI
States are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence systems to enhance their national security decision-making. The real risks that states will deploy…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRavi Iyer on How to Improve Technology Through Design
On the latest episode of Arbiters of Truth, Lawfare's series on the information ecosystem, Quinta Jurecic and Alan Rozenshtein spoke with Ravi Iyer, the…
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Rational Security: The “Mission Admonished” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott waited for a big shoe to drop by talking over the week's big national security news, including:“What…
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Lawfare Archive: Alperovitch and Iftimie Talk Response to Russia and China
From April 28, 2021: The Biden administration has now responded to two major cyberattacks—one from Russia, the SolarWinds attack, and the other from China, the…
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What We've Learned About Security and Intelligence Failures on Jan. 6
Last month, the Government Accountability Office released its latest report on the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, focusing on the failures of several…
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The New American Foreign Policy of Technology
The open nature of the internet has allowed malicious actors to abuse technology. Information operations, offensive cyber, and IP theft are just some examples…
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Travis LeBlanc and FISA Section 702
On December 31, 2023, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will expire unless it is reauthorized by Congress. Section 702 authorizes…
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Charles Dunst on Defeating the Dictators
By many accounts, the United States is living through a new era of competition—not just between major powers and strategic rivals, but between ideologies…
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Two Perspectives on the Invasion of Iraq at 20, with Ambassador Doug Silliman and Salem Chalabi
Twenty years ago today, the United States invaded the nation of Iraq, intent on removing the regime of dictator Saddam Hussein and installing a stable…
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Chatter: Spy Movies and the Oscars with Alyssa Rosenberg
The Academy loves a good spy flick, and so do we! This week, Shane Harris talks with Washington Post culture critic Alyssa Rosenberg about the enduring power…
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Lawfare Archive: Fault Lines: Hot Topics in the Arctic
From February 24, 2020: What do Russia, China and Canada all have in common? They all disagree—in one manner or another—with American policy goals in the…
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Orly Lobel on How AI Can Make the World a Better, More Equal Place
Artificial Intelligence is advancing at what seems like an exponential rate, with every month—sometimes every week—bringing news of a new, game-changing…
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Meanwhile in Somalia with Charlie Savage and Eric Schmitt
As U.S. counterterrorism efforts have waned in Yemen, Libya, and parts of Pakistan, Somalia has emerged as the most active element in the “forever wars” that…