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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 EditionRational Security: The “Sincerest Form of Flattery” Edition
This week on Rational Security, a Quinta-less Alan and Scott were joined by their Lawfare colleagues senior editor Molly Reynolds and managing editor Tyler…
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Lawfare Archive: General Michael Lehnert on Closing GITMO
From March 21, 2015: This week, we invited Major General Michael Lehnert (Ret.), the first commander of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to…
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Another Special Counsel and More Classified Documents
Yesterday afternoon, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that he has appointed a special counsel to investigate the revelations that documents bearing…
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Boys Be Not Proud, with Roger Parloff
It's Proud Boys Trial Day at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse in Washington, DC, when five leaders of the right wing paramilitary gang go on trial in a…
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Bryan Cunningham on a Federally Funded Backstop for the Cyber Insurance Ecosystem
Various press reports have indicated that the Biden administration intends to release its cyber strategy in the coming weeks. The cyber strategy will likely…
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A Very Special Grand Jury Report
District Attorney of Fulton County Fani Willis has completed her special grand jury investigation of election tampering in 2020. The special purpose grand jury…
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Bonus Minipod: Alan Rozenshtein on the 5th Amendment
Alan tells us about the philosophical underpinnings of the right against self-incrimination, and gives his own opinions on its usefulness. Hosted on Acast. See…
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Burning Down the House with Molly Reynolds
On Friday evening, we had no idea if Kevin McCarthy was going to be elected speaker or not, so Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Brookings…
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Chatter: CIA, Congress, and the Art of Listening with Abigail Spanberger
Abigail Spanberger, who represents Virginia's 7th congressional district in the House of Representatives, is one of the few members of Congress to have served…
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Lawfare Archive: Insurrection at the Capitol
From January 6, 2021: Today a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol following a rally at which the president spoke. Congressional efforts to count the…
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A January 6 Anniversary
It’s January 6—the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection. There has been a lot of activity in those two years to account for what happened on that…
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Shane Harris on the Nord Stream 2 Bombing
It was a few months ago that something went boom under the sea and the Nord Stream 2 pipelines were severely damaged. Everyone assumed the perpetrator was the…
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Lawfare’s Annual “Ask Us Anything”
It’s our annual “Ask Us Anything” episode. This year, Lawfare editors answered some of your burning questions on the Secret Service, the durability of the U.S…
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Can the United States Seize Russian Frozen Assets to Aid Ukraine?
As Russia's unlawful war of aggression continues to inflict untold devastation on Ukraine, policymakers have begun to search for ways to support Ukraine's…
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Lawfare Archive: Congressional Overspeech with Josh Chafetz
From June 9, 2020: High profile congressional hearings, like the 2015 Benghazi hearings, the 2019 Mueller Report hearings and most recently, the Ukraine…
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Rational Security: The “Toodle 2020-Two Doo” Edition
For their end-of-the-year episode of Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott took on a number of hard-hitting questions posed by you, the listeners…
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Lawfare Archive: Content Moderation and the First Amendment for Dummies
From March 11, 2021: On this episode of Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast’s miniseries on disinformation and misinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta…
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Lawfare Archive: The Myth of Artificial Intelligence
From March 31, 2021: Alvaro Marañon sat down with Erik Larson, a computer scientist, tech entrepreneur and author of the new book, "The Myth of Artificial…
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An Investigation into Russian State Media and Disinformation
On December 15, the New York Times published an article that detailed an investigation conducted by three of its reporters into how Russian state media uses…
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Why is Everyone Banning TikTok?
In the last few weeks, over a dozen U.S. states have banned TikTok from government devices, citing national security concerns. A similar bill was included in…
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The Dangerous Mess at a Defense Tech Startup
Founded in 2019, Rebellion Defense emerged as a darling of the defense startup industry, backed by powerful Pentagon insiders and high-profile investors like…
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Lawfare Archive: Jonathan Gould on Codifying Constitutional Norms
From March 23, 2021: Our constitutional system involves the written document, plus two and a half centuries of judicial decisions interpreting it. But these…
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Chatter: Presidents Who Lose and Run Again with Troy Senik
Donald Trump is trying to do something rare—very rare—in American history: lose a presidential election, run again, and get elected to a second term. Only one…
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Emergency Edition: The Jan. 6 Committee's Final Report
The Jan. 6 committee issued its final report Thursday night, and the team at Lawfare spent Friday reading through it and formulating some initial thoughts…
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What to Make of the 2023 NDAA and Consolidated Appropriations Act
Over the past few weeks, Congress has slowly brought two of its biggest pieces of annual omnibus legislation to the finish line: the National Defense…
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Tom Wheeler and Dave Simpson on Making 5G Secure
Fifth generation, or 5G technology, promises to bring high-speed, low-latency wireless infrastructure necessary for the smart era. But moving from the promise…
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The Beginning of the End of the Jan. 6 Committee
On Monday afternoon, the House Select Committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol, better known as the Jan. 6 committee, held its…
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The Political Crisis in Peru
On December 7, Peruvian president Pedro Castillo attempted to dissolve Peru’s Congress and implement a state of emergency. His dictatorship lasted only a few…
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Chris Slobogin on Virtual Searches
When we think about government surveillance, we often imagine something physical, like a police officer executing a search warrant on a house or car. But…
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Chatter: Reassessing Reagan's Foreign Policy with Will Inboden
Ronald Reagan stands among the most consequential national security presidents in United States history, not least of which because his policies helped to end…
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Lawfare Archive: Trump's Money and National Security
From September 30, 2020: On Sunday, September 27, the New York Times dropped bombshell new reporting on nearly two decades of Donald Trump's tax return data…
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Ralph Bunche, the United Nations, and the Fight to End Empire
Ralph Bunche, one of the most prominent Black Americans of the 20th century, was a legendary diplomat, who from his perch at the United Nations was a central…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionRick Hasen and Nate Persily on Replatforming Trump on Social Media
On November 19, Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk announced that he would be reinstating former President Donald Trump’s account on the platform—though so far…
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Riana Pfefferkorn on End-to-End Encryption for iPhone Backups to iCloud
Last week, Apple made an announcement about some new security features it would be offering to users. One of those features involves users' ability to opt in…
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“Corrupt Obstruction” Before the D.C. Circuit
On Monday, the D.C. Circuit heard oral argument in the case United States v Fischer—one of the most important cases we've seen in a while relating to criminal…
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December Minipod: Benjamin Wittes and David Priess on Lawfare and Breaking News
This month, our editor-in-chief and publisher answered your question about Lawfare’s relationship to breaking news. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionA Member of Meta’s Oversight Board Discusses the Board’s New Decision
When Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen shared a trove of internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal in 2021, some of the most dramatic…
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Rational Security 2.0: The “Dork at 4pm” Edition
This week on Rational Security 2.0, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were reunited after a few weeks apart to talk through the week's big national security news…
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Lawfare Archive: Identifying and Exploiting the Weaknesses of White Supremacist Groups
From April 14, 2021: A lot of people are expressing anxiety about white supremacist violent terrorism, yet in a new Brookings paper entitled "Identifying and…
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Alan Rozenshtein Says the Slope Isn’t That Slippery
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday heard oral arguments in the case of Blassingame v. Trump, an appeal from a civil lawsuit against the former…
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Dissecting the Oral Arguments in Moore v. Harper
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in what may be the biggest case of the term: Moore v. Harper. In that case, North Carolina’s state…
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Regulating AI with Alex Engler
Earlier this fall, the Biden administration released what it called a “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” a policy document that lays out a five-pillar…
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J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
J. Edgar Hoover served as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 48 years, from 1924 until 1972. Since his death, Hoover has become one of the…
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An 11th Circuit Mar-a-Lago Debrief
On Thursday afternoon, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling in the amusingly captioned case Trump v. United States of America. The three-judge…
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Chatter: Pandemics and Political Violence with Brian Michael Jenkins
Plagues periodically exact a heavy toll on human life—and much more. They devastate economies, exacerbate social disorder, shock governance systems, provide…
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Lawfare Archive: Sophia Yan Reports from Quarantine in Beijing
From April 28, 2020: Sophia Yan, a correspondent for the London Telegraph, joined Benjamin Wittes from Beijing where she is in coronavirus lockdown after…
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Kurt Sanger on Cyber Conflict and the Law
U.S. Cyber Command was established on May 21, 2010, and is the second youngest unified combatant command after U.S. Space Command in the United States. As…
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Sophia Yan on the China Protests
Protests have broken out in China over the zero-Covid policy, over lockdowns, and even over the rule of newly appointed third-term leader Xi Jinping. The…
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Scott R. Anderson on the Past, the Present, and the Future of the 2002 AUMF
The 2002 Iraq AUMF authorized the invasion of Iraq and a variety of U.S. military activities since then, and a large bipartisan group of senators and…
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Neta Crawford on the Pentagon, Climate Change, and War
The United States military was one of the first institutions in government to acknowledge the threat posed by climate change, as well as the science behind it…
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Stephan Haggard on What’s Going on in North Korea
It's been an eventful several weeks on the Korean Peninsula, with a spree of missile tests, the sudden display of a daughter of North Korean leader Kim…
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Rational Security 2.0: The “Get Off My Lawn” Edition
This week on Rational Security 2.0, a Quinta-less Alan and Scott welcomed Lawfare's dynamic associate editor duo, Katherine Pompilio and Hyemin Han, on to the…
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Lawfare Archive: Why is Government Hate Crimes Data So Terrible?
From March 30, 2021: Anti-Asian violence in the United States seems to be on the rise. On March 16, a shooter killed eight people, six of whom were Asian…
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Lawfare Archive: Law, Policy and Empire with Daniel Immerwahr
From May 2, 2020: Most of us don’t think of United States history as an imperial history, but the facts are there. The law and policy surrounding westward…
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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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Roger Parloff with Oath Keeper Closing Arguments
For the last 29 days, Roger Parloff, Lawfare senior editor, has been sitting in on the Oath Keeper trial in Washington. The trial is now done, the jury has the…
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Alex de Waal on the Conflict in Ethiopia and Tigray
Earlier this month, officials from the government of Ethiopia and representatives from the Tigray People's Liberation Front agreed to halt the two-year…
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Karen Sokol and Chris Callahan on Climate Justice: The Interplay of Science, Law, and Policy
Over the weekend, the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP 27, went into overtime as nations came to an historic agreement to establish a loss and…
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Chatter: Satellites, Space Debris, and Hollywood with Aaron Bateman
Satellites have held a special place in military planning and in spy fiction alike for more than half a century. Both domains ended up devoting much attention…
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Lawfare Archive: Stephan Haggard on North Korea and the Tactical Divide
From September 23, 2017: The escalating tension between North Korea and the United States has risen to an unprecedented level. Earlier this month, Stephan…