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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 EditionJen Easterly
As Director of the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly is one of several women at the very top of the cybersecurity…
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A New Sanctions Approach for Humanitarian Assistance
For years, the international community has wrestled with how to reconcile sanctions policies targeting terrorist groups and other malevolent actors with the…
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Chip Brantley and Andrew Beck Grace on White Lies Season 2
Chip Brantley and Andrew Beck Grace are the creators of the NPR audio documentary White Lies, which was a Pulitzer finalist for its first season. Chip and…
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Rational Security: The “Giving Two Effs” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Naval Academy professor and cyberlaw expert Jeff "Two Effs" Kosseff to work through the…
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Lawfare Archive: Nicole Perlroth on the Cyberweapons Arms Race
From March 19, 2021: Jack Goldsmith spoke with New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth about her new book, "This is How They Tell Me the World…
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Kemba Walden
Kemba Walden recently took over from Chris Inglis as Acting National Cyber Director in the White House. She had been Principal Deputy Assistant National Cyber…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionDoes Section 230 Protect ChatGPT?
During recent oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, a Supreme Court case concerning the scope of liability protections for internet platforms, Justice Neil…
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Philippe Sands on Britain’s Last Colony
A few weeks ago, Human Rights Watch released a report on the forced expulsion of the Chagossian people, whom the United Kingdom deported from their island…
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Biden’s Cybersecurity Strategy
On March 2, the Biden administration released its long-awaited National Cybersecurity Strategy. The new strategy comes more than two years after President…
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Bonus Minipod: A Turkey v. Türkiye Smackdown
March Minipod episode! Lawfare Senior Editors Quinta Jurecic, Alan Rozenshtein, and Scott R. Anderson debate whether to continue to refer to the country led by…
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The Israeli Judicial System on the Brink
Amichai Cohen and Yuval Shany are both Israeli legal scholars and longtime Lawfare contributors. Shany is a professor of international law at the Hebrew…
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Chatter: Fixing America To Bolster National Security with Richard Haass
For the past 20 years, Richard Haass has led the Council on Foreign Relations, building on his national security experience in government and his related work…
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Lawfare Archive: Cybersecurity Futures
From December 7, 2019: Wargaming has long been a staple of military strategizing, but how do we plan for the future in cyberspace, a realm where governments do…
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Counterintelligence Today with Mirriam-Grace MacIntyre and Alan Kohler
This week, Lawfare Publisher David Priess wore his hat as a Senior Fellow at George Mason University's Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and…
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Is Peru Still a Democracy?
Since December, Peru has been in the midst of a protracted politico crisis. Following a failed coup in early December, President Pedro Castillo was arrested…
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Matt Olsen on FISA 702
Matthew Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, gave yesterday a major address at the…
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What’s Going On With Scott Perry’s Cell Phone?
There was a big showdown at the D.C. Circuit last week over the Speech or Debate Clause and Representative Scott Perry and his cell phone, the latter of which…
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Nicky Woolf and Max Johnston on The Sound
Remember Havana Syndrome? Diplomats, spies, and other people suddenly hearing a loud noise and then having neurological symptoms, sometimes debilitating... Was…
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Rational Security: The “Not, Like, the Three Greatest Experts at Podcasting” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott sat through literally hours of oral arguments to prepare to discuss all the national security…
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Lawfare Archive: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Section 230 Reform
From March 18, 2021: On this episode of Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast’s miniseries on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta…
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Alina Polyakova on the First Year of the Russia-Ukraine War
It’s the first anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia. To talk about this first year and what comes next, Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin…
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The Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Gonzalez and Taamneh
On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in a pair of cases concerning to what extent online platforms can be held…
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Can the Speech or Debate Clause Shield Mike Pence from a Subpoena?
Special Counsel Jack Smith has issued a subpoena to former Vice President Mike Pence as part of the investigation into Trump’s role in instigating the Jan. 6…
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Chris Inglis
Chris Inglis has had an illustrious career in the defense of this country, serving as an Air Force general, deputy director of the National Security Agency…
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Lawfare Archive: The State of the U.S.-Turkey Relationship
From April 30, 2021: When President Biden entered office, he inherited a bilateral relationship with Turkey that was strained to the limits by the growing…
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Chatter: Former National Security Advisor Steve Hadley's Reflections on Presidential Transitions
Along with co-editors Peter Feaver, William Inboden, and Meghan O'Sullivan, former National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley is editor of the new “Hand-Off: The…
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Lawfare Archive: Natan Sachs on the Israeli Governance Crisis
From April 6, 2021: Natan Sachs is a Brookings senior fellow and the head of the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy, part of the Brookings Foreign Policy…
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Gonzalez v. Google and the Fate of Section 230
On February 14, the Brookings Institution hosted an event on the upcoming Supreme Court oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh—two cases…
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Karen J. Greenberg on the Intertwined Stories of Saifullah and Uzair Paracha
Earlier this month, a Pakistani man named Majid Khan started his new life in Belize after spending nearly half his previous life in U.S. detention, first at a…
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A Jan. 6 Committee Staffer on Far-Right Extremism
The Jan. 6 committee’s final report on the insurrection is over 800 pages, including the footnotes. But there’s still new information coming out about the…
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How the Police Became Untouchable
Last month's brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by Memphis police has once again sparked a national conversation about the causes of and remedies for persistent…
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How Cyber Criminals Can Exploit ChatGPT
Since it launched in November of last year, ChatGPT has been subject to widespread attention. Cyber criminals have been quick to try to find ways to abuse the…
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Rational Security: The "Are You There, Nena? It's Me, NORAD" Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined once again by host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's various freak-outs…
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Lawfare Archive: The Future of CFIUS
From June 2, 2018: The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) plays an essential role in advising the president on how to exercise his or…
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The World Crisis and International Law
International law has been under significant stress in the last decade as a result of global populism, the rise of China, the war in Ukraine, and the…
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Alex Iftimie on the DOJ Disruption of the Hive Ransomware Group
On January 26, the Department of Justice held a press conference to announce its months-long disruption campaign against the Hive ransomware group that has…
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A Jan. 6 Committee Staffer on Social Media and the Insurrection
The Jan. 6 Committee released its final report on December 22, 2022—the capstone of a year and half of investigative work. But while the report is 800 pages…
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The Hacker's Mind
How does computer hacking work? When is it good, and when is it bad? And what does it have to teach us about law, politics, and inequality? These are some of…
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It's Not Too Late to Deter China From Invading Taiwan
Last week, the United States and the Philippines reached an agreement to expand U.S. military operations in the Philippines to deter China's increasingly…
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Chatter: M. Todd Bennett on the Secretive Story of the Glomar Explorer
A sunken Soviet submarine. A secret CIA plan to lift it from the bottom of the ocean with a giant claw. And reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. It sounds like…
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Lawfare Archive: Rashawn Ray on Police Violence
From June 3, 2020: Dr. Rashawn Ray is a David M. Rubenstein fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He's also an associate professor of…
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The CLOUD Act Five Years Later
Next month will mark the five-year anniversary of the CLOUD Act, a foundational piece of legislation on cross-border data transfers and criminal…
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“Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends,” with Linda Kinstler and Sam Moyn
Last December, a German court convicted a 97-year-old former Nazi camp secretary of complicity in the murder of more than 10,000 people in what the media…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionChatGPT Tells All
You've likely heard of ChatGPT, the chatbot from OpenAI. But you’ve likely never heard an interview with ChatGPT, much less an interview in which ChatGPT…
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Even More Classified Documents
It seems like everyone has classified documents stashed away these days. First, it was Donald Trump, with the Justice Department investigation into documents…
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Roger Parloff with a Proud Boys Trial Update
For the last several days, Lawfare senior editor Roger Parloff has been in court covering the Proud Boys trial on a live blog on Lawfare. The trial took a…
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Rational Security: The “M1 Abrams Accords” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were joined by special guest Michel Paradis to talk over the week's big national security news…
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Lawfare Archive: Brad Moss on Presidential Power and Security Clearances
From August 18, 2018: The President of the United States this week stripped the former CIA Director John Brennan of his security clearance in a dramatic White…
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Gavin Wilde and Justin Sherman on Russia’s Information War and Regime Security
Russia’s use of information warfare during the 2016 U.S. presidential election period focused attention on Russia’s weaponization of information in its effort…
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Finland’s NATO Bid, Interrupted
Turkish President Erdoğan has thrown a giant wrench into Sweden's NATO membership bid after a protest outside the Turkish embassy in Stockholm. This, in turn…
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Anna Bower on Judge McBurney's Deliberations
Judge Robert McBurney of the Superior Court of Fulton County held a hearing on Tuesday to decide whether or not to release the Fulton County Special Grand…
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Lynzy Billing on Afghanistan's Zero Unit Night Raids
In 2019, investigative journalist and photographer Lynzy Billing went to Afghanistan to investigate a very personal story: her own past. In the process, she…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionWhen States Make Tech Policy
Tech policy reform occupies a strange place in Washington, D.C. Everyone seems to agree that the government should change how it regulates the technology…
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Chatter: A Post-Presidency Done Right with Jean Becker
For almost 25 years, until his death in November 2018, former president George H. W. Bush's chief of staff was Jean Becker. For event after event through both…
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Lawfare Archive: The Past, Present and Future of Sovereign Immunity
From December 11, 2020: This week, the Supreme Court returned once again to the complex and sometimes controversial Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, or FSIA…
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Biden's National Security Presidency So Far with Chris Whipple
We have just ended Biden's first two years as president, and it's a great time to reflect back on the wild national security ride we’ve had. In fact, Chris…
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Lifting the Veil on Fusion Centers
In the wake of September 11, 2001, federal law enforcement agencies were caught flatfooted when they realized that they'd had the intel to prevent the attack…
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Halkbank Hits the Supreme Court
In 2019, the U.S. government took a step that it had never taken before. It brought criminal charges against a foreign state-owned bank, Turkiye Halk Bankasi…
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How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
Lawfare fellow in technology policy and law Eugenia Lostri sat down with Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud to talk about their new book, “Pegasus: How a Spy…
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Lawfare Archive: Chip Brantley and Andrew Beck Grace on White Lies
From August 17, 2019: Andrew Beck Grace and Chip Brantley are the creators of the NPR podcast audio documentary White Lies, which deals with the murder of Rev…