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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 EditionRoger Parloff Keeps His Oath
Stewart Rhodes, the chieftain of the Oath Keepers, goes on trial this week for seditious conspiracy. The trial is expected to run about five weeks, with jury…
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Rational Security 2.0: The “Korea Culpa” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott went guestless to discuss the week’s big national security news, including:“Ne Me Quitte Pas.” The…
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Lawfare Archive: A Deep Dive on China and the Uighurs
From July 15, 2020: We talk a lot about Chinese policy in Hong Kong, but there's another human rights crisis going on in China in the province of Xinjiang. It…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionThe Fifth Circuit is Wrong on the Internet
Our Arbiters of Truth series on the online information ecosystem has been taking a bit of a hiatus—but we’re back! On today’s episode, we’re discussing the…
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Dan Byman on Content Moderation Tools to Stop Extremism
There's enormous debate about how much social media platforms should be doing to moderate extremist content. But that debate often lacks nuance about the many…
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Foreign Agents and the Barrack Indictment
This past Monday, the criminal trial of Thomas Barrack began in federal court in the Eastern District of New York. Barrack, who served as an informal advisor…
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Geoffrey Berman on ‘Holding the Line’
Geoffrey Berman was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Trump administration. He was appointed under peculiar circumstances, and he…
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Judge Cannon’s Latest Mar-a-Lago Ruling
On September 15, Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida issued two key rulings in the Mar-a-Lago documents case…
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Chatter: CIA Paramilitary Ops in Reality and Fiction
Of all of the Central Intelligence Agency's activities, paramilitary operations might remain the least understood. This, in part, is both a cause and a…
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Lawfare Archive: A Real, Live Framer of the Constitution
From March 17, 2018: In 1963, John Feerick became a witness to and a framer of our constitutional history. Within two years of graduating from law school…
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The Legal Legacy of Ken Starr
Ken Starr, the former federal judge and independent counsel who became famous for his investigation of President Bill Clinton, died this week on September 13…
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Dmitri Alperovitch on the Ukrainian Counteroffensive
Dmitri Alperovitch is the founder of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a geopolitics think tank in Washington, and the impresario of the Geopolitics Decanted…
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Rupert Stone on the Booming Afghan Drug Trade
Amid the war and instability in Afghanistan over the last two decades, the opium industry has seen explosive growth. In fact, Afghanistan accounts for the vast…
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Rainer Sonntag, Vladimir Putin, and the German Far Right
Since his 1991 death, Rainer Sonntag has been remembered as a martyr by generations of neo-Nazis and other far-right activists, especially in his native…
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Pakistan's Flood Disaster and National Security
Pakistan is experiencing one of the largest natural disasters in modern history. The massive floods there, combined with glacier melt, have led to one third of…
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Chatter: 9/11 Memorialization with Marita Sturken
From January 25, 2022: In this bonus episode of Chatter, David Priess talks with professor and author Marita Sturken about 9/11-related memorials, museums, and…
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Rational Security: The “Anniversary Hot Take Takedown” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by co-host emeriti Ben Wittes and Shane Harris for a very special anniversary edition of…
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Lawfare Archive: Alissa Starzak on Cloudflare, Content Moderation and the Internet Stack
From September 3, 2020: This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Alissa Starzak, the head…
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Todd Huntley and Marc Garlasco on the Pentagon's New CIVCAS Action Plan
On August 25, the Defense Department released its long-awaited Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan, something that human rights advocates have…
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Justin Sherman on the Twitter Whistleblower Complaint
On August 23, the Washington Post published a story about a whistleblower complaint filed by Peiter Zatko, the former security lead and member of Twitter's…
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About That Special Master Ruling
Monday afternoon, a federal judge in Florida acceded to Donald Trump's motion to appoint a special master to review privilege claims arising out of the…
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Christo Grozev on Socialite, Widow, Jeweller, Spy
Late last month, investigative journalists at Bellingcat and partner organizations published a story exposing the identity of a Russian spy named Maria Adela…
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Live From Ukraine: Oleksandra Povoroznik Talks Language Politics and Wartime Culture
Oleksandra Povoroznik is a (@rynkrynk) is a Kyiv-based journalist, film critic and translator, who joins us to discuss the changing politics of language in…
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Lawfare Archive: Nina Jankowicz on 'How to Lose the Information War'
From September 24, 2020: Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke to Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, about her new book: “How to…
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Lawfare Archive: Benjamin Wittes and Conor Friedersdorf Debate the Ethics of Drones
From February 15, 2014: The University of Richmond invited Ben and Conor Friedersdorf to participate in a debate on the ethics of drone warfare. Conor is a…
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Marsin Alshamary on Iraq’s Latest Political Crisis
In recent months, the country of Iraq has been living through the latest in a series of political crises as different factions have struggled for control of…
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Unpacking the Justice Department's Opposition to the Trump Team's Special Master Request
On Tuesday night, running up against the 11:59 PM deadline, the Justice Department filed its 40-page motion opposing Donald Trump's request that a special…
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Leah Sottile on ‘When the Moon Turns to Blood’
In February 2020, police in the town of Rexburg, Idaho, uncovered evidence of what seemed like an unthinkable crime: two children murdered by one of their…
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Reflecting Upon CFR’s Reports on U.S. Goals in Cyberspace
The era of the global internet offered opportunities for economic and political progress, but it has also afforded bad actors the opportunities to manipulate…
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Max Smeets on Why States Struggle to Develop a Military Cyber-Force
“Cyberspace is the domain of modern warfare” is a popular headline in recent times. Recent state and non-state cyber attacks have given support to this notion…
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Rational Security 2.0: The “BOYZ NITE” Edition
This week on Rational Security, a Quinta-less Alan and Scott were joined by host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's big national security…
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Chatter: The Moon, Mars, and National Security with Fraser Cain
NASA next week plans to launch the first of several Artemis missions, which collectively aim to land astronauts on the Moon again for the first time in more…
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Lawfare Archive: Stephanie Leutert on Violence in Mexico and Central America
From October 8, 2016: Stephanie Leutert, the Mexico Security Initiative Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Lawfare's "Beyond the…
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Sean Ekins and Filippa Lentzos on a Teachable Moment for Dual-Use
Back in March, a team of researchers published an article in Nature Machine Intelligence showing that a drug discovery company’s AI-powered molecule generator…
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A Jan. 6 Criminal Update with Roger Parloff
While everyone's eyes have been on Mar-a-Lago, there has also been a lot going on with the Jan. 6 investigation: cases going to trial, major sentencing…
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Elliot Ackerman on America's End in Afghanistan
One year ago this month, the last American troops withdrew from Afghanistan, marking the end of a 20-year war. To reflect on those two decades, Lawfare…
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Michael Gordon on the U.S. War Against the Islamic State
In 2014, as Islamic State insurgents took control of the Iraqi city of Mosul, President Barack Obama made the decision to send troops back to Iraq. Within five…
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Andrew Tutt on the Torres Case, State Sovereign Immunity, and Congress's War Powers
One of the last decisions that the Supreme Court handed down this year was Torres v. Texas Department of Public Safety. Le Roy Torres, an Iraq war veteran and…
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Chatter: Gone with the Wind, Hitler, and America First with Sarah Churchwell
Gone with the Wind—the top-grossing movie of all time, adjusted for inflation—remains an iconic influence in American culture, despite its deeply troubling…
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Rational Security: The “Mar-a-gate v. Water-a-Lago” Edition
In this cross-post of Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by their fellow Lawfare senior editor Molly Reynolds to talk through a week of big…
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Lawfare Archive: African Elections and U.S. Interests
From March 19, 2019: Demographic, technological, and geostrategic developments are disrupting the electoral landscape in sub-Saharan Africa. How do these…
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Hal Brands and Michael Beckley on the Emerging Conflict with China
What is the nature and timescale of U.S. geopolitical competition with China? Which country is stronger in the near term and long term? And what will the…
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Daniel Bessner on the Restraint v. Liberal Internationalism Debate
Last month, the cover of Harper's Magazine declared that the American century is over. Then it asked a single question: What's next? To dig into that question…
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Catching Up with the Jan. 6 Contempt of Congress Cases
In the course of the Jan. 6 investigation, Congress has voted to hold four Trump associates in contempt and refer them to the Justice Department for…
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The MTCR and Its Possible Reforms
Lawfare associate editor Matt Gluck sat down with Tom Karako, the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International…
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Intelligence and the State with Jonathan House
What is the proper relationship between the intelligence community and national decision makers in the United States? The author of a new book argues that for…
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Chatter: Journalism as Fodder for Fiction with Mary Louise Kelly
Mary Louise Kelly is one of the most recognizable voices in American journalism. A co-host of NPR’s flagship program “All Things Considered,” she has spent…
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Emergency Edition: About That Mar-a-Lago Warrant
Friday afternoon, the federal court in Florida, acting at the Justice Department’s request, unsealed the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago that the FBI had…
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The Past and Future of the Jan. 6 Committee
The Jan. 6 select committee has wrapped up its first spree of hearings, and it has announced a second set of hearings when Congress returns in September. The…
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Tunisia's New Constitution
The country of Tunisia is in the midst of a slow motion political crisis. The country's populist president has crafted a new constitution that gives him broad…
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Unpacking the FBI's Search at Mar-a-Lago
The FBI on Monday conducted a surprise search of Donald Trump's home and resort at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. The investigation appeared to involve the retention…
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Nick Turse on the Pentagon’s Secretive Funding Authority, 127e
Last month, The Intercept published a new investigation from Alice Speri and Nick Turse looking into a secretive funding authority at the Pentagon known as…
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Decoding Aleksandr Ionov’s Influence Operation with Thomas Rid and Brandon Van Grack
On July 29, the Justice Department announced the indictment of Aleksandr Ionov, a Russian national and president of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia…
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Rational Security: The “Small World After All” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by favorite guest Lawfare executive editor Natalie Orpett to hash through the week's big…
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Lawfare Archive: Elsa Kania on China’s Quantum Quest
From September 22, 2018: If you ask scientists what is most likely to kick off the next great wave of technological change, a good number will answer “quantum…
The Lawfare Podcast: Patreon EditionWhen Lawyers Spread Disinformation
A few weeks ago on Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information system, we brought you a conversation with two emergency room doctors about their…
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Pelosi in Taiwan
Nancy Pelosi made a visit to Taiwan this week. It wasn't exactly a surprise—we all knew it was happening—but it wasn't announced, and it wasn't quite official…
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Dan Byman and Scott Anderson on the al-Zawahiri Strike
Another day, another leader of al-Qaeda is killed by U.S. forces. This time, it was Ayman al-Zawahiri, killed on his balcony in Kabul by a Hellfire missile…
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Europe Doubles Down on Client Side Scanning
On May 11, the European Commission announced a new proposal designed to combat online child sexual abuse material. The proposal has drawn notable criticism…
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How to Evaluate Progress in the Justice Department's Jan. 6 Investigation
There’s been a great deal of debate recently about how to understand the apparently slow pace of the Justice Department’s investigation into Jan. 6…