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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 EditionAfghanistan Six Months After the Taliban Takeover
Nearly six months have passed since the Taliban’s sudden takeover of Afghanistan. As the country faces down a failing economy and looming humanitarian…
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What the French Third Republic Can Teach Us About January 6
What’s the best historical analogue for the American political situation today? Often, pundits will compare our current age of rising polarization and…
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Lawfare Archive: What to Do With Detained Islamic State Fighters in Iraq and Syria
From July 28, 2020: For a while, there have been large numbers of alleged former Islamic State state fighters and affiliates detained by the Iraqi government…
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Lawfare Archive: Justice Stephen Breyer on ‘The Court and the World’
From January 30, 2016: Last week at The Brookings Institution, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer participated in a discussion with…
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An Islamic State Jailbreak
Late last week and early this week saw fighting between Islamic State fighters and Syrian democratic forces after the Islamic State attempted a jailbreak of a…
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Defunding the Insurrectionists
As we’ve discussed on the show, online advertisements are the shifting, unstable sand on which the contemporary internet is built. And one of the many, many…
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Oona Hathaway and Secrecy’s End
What if we declared an end to the costly system of how we classify national security information in the United States? Oona Hathaway, the Gerard C. and Bernice…
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The Capitol Police and the Enduring Effects of Jan. 6
Over the last year, our national dialogue about the Jan. 6 Capitol attack has become ever more focused on politics, congressional investigations and criminal…
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Ned Foley on Electoral Count Act Reform
As the prospect of broader election reform has grown more remote, bipartisan discussions have increasingly come to center on one long standing law: the…
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Lawfare Archive: Who is Vladimir Putin?
From April 4, 2015: With a tenuous ceasefire holding in Ukraine, we asked Fiona Hill onto the show to discuss the man behind the unrest: Vladimir Putin. Hill…
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Lawfare Archive: Mark Rozell on 'Presidential Power, Secrecy and Accountability'
From August 6, 2019: Over the years, presidents have used different language to describe the withholding of information from Congress. To discuss the concept…
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Trump’s Documents, the Jan. 6 Committee and the Supreme Court
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case Trump v. Thompson, denying Donald Trump's motion to block the National Archives from…
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Why the Online Advertising Market is Broken
In December 2020, ten state attorneys general sued Google, alleging that the tech giant had created an illegal monopoly over online advertising. The lawsuit is…
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Hal Brands on Lessons from the Cold War
Bryce Klehm sat down with Hal Brands, the Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International…
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What Happens When Congress Investigates Itself?
A crucial component of the story of Jan. 6 involves what members of Congress were doing on that day. What kinds of conversations did Republican lawmakers have…
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Lawfare Archive: Paul Lewis on Not Closing Guantanamo
From February 25, 2017: Under the oversight of Paul Lewis, the Department of Defense’s Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure under the Obama administration, the…
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Lawfare Archive: Adam Jentleson and Molly Reynolds on Getting Rid of the Senate Filibuster
From August 14, 2020: On July 30, former President Barack Obama, speaking at the funeral of Congressman John Lewis, threw his weight behind ending the Senate…
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Lawfare Archive: Chesney, Monaco, McCord, and Rasmussen on Domestic Terrorism
From October 15, 2019: A couple of weeks ago, Lawfare and the Strauss Center for International Security and Law sponsored a series of panels at the Texas…
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Trouble in Ukraine and Kazakhstan
There's a lot going on in Russia's near-abroad, the countries on the periphery of the Russian Federation. There’s a war brewing in Ukraine, with talks in…
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Podcasts Are the Laboratories of Misinformation
Valerie Wirtschafter and Chris Meserole, our friends at the Brookings Institution, recently published an analysis of how popular podcasters on the American…
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Benjamin Wittes and Alan Rozenshtein on Trump v. Thompson, Presidential Immunity and the First Amendment
On Monday, January 10, a federal district court in DC heard oral argument in Trump v. Thompson. The case considers civil claims against Donald Trump and others…
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Dr. Charles Lieber and the China Initiative
On December 21, Harvard University chemist Dr. Charles Lieber was convicted of making false statements and other tax offenses in connection with his…
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The January 6 Insurrection One Year Later
Last week marked one year since the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill, in which a mob of Trump supporters attacked Congress in an effort to stop the certification…
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Lawfare Archive: The Soleimani Strike and Its Fallout
From January 3, 2020: The American drone strike last night that killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, is a seismic event in…
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The Aftermath, Episode 1: Day Zero, Ground Zero
We're bringing you the first episode of Lawfare’s new narrative series, The Aftermath, which we released this past Thursday on the one-year anniversary of the…
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Roger Parloff on the Conspirators
Lawfare senior editor Roger Parloff has a piece out on Lawfare, entitled “The Conspirators: The Proud Boys and Oath Keepers on Jan. 6.” It is an examination of…
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Content Moderation After January 6
One year ago, a violent mob broke into the U.S. Capitol during the certification of the electoral vote, aiming to overturn Joe Biden’s victory and keep Donald…
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The Soleimani Strike Two Years Later
Two years ago this week, the head of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in an American strike. At the time, we…
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Christina Koningisor on Secrecy Creep
Government secrecy is pervasive when it comes to national security and foreign affairs, and it’s becoming more and more common for state and even local…
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The Annual “Ask Us Anything” Episode
As is our annual tradition, we're bringing you the Lawfare “Ask Us Anything” episode. You, the listeners, sent over your questions, and we, the Lawfare staff…
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Lawfare Archive: Afshon Ostovar on Iran's Revolutionary Guard
From February 11, 2020: Afshon Ostovar is the associate chair for research and an assistant professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate…
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Lawfare Archive: A Speech on Sextortion by Mona Sedky
From April 22, 2017: Over the past year, Lawfare has expended a great deal of ink on the problem of sextortion, a form of online sexual assault in which…
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Lawfare Archive: Missy Cummings on Drones, Drones, Drones
From March 3, 2012: Missy Cummings, Director of the Humans and Automation Laboratory and a professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, sat down with…
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Rational Security 2.0: The “Choosy Spies Choose JIF” Edition
The Lawfare Podcast isn't Lawfare’s only podcast offering. Each week, Scott R. Anderson, Quinta Jurecic, Alan Rozenshtein and a special guest sit down on the…
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Chatter, with Rolling Stone's Noah Shachtman
We're giving you something a bit different for today's Lawfare Podcast. It's an episode of Lawfare’s new podcast, Chatter, in which Shane Harris or David…
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“The Lazarus Heist” with Jean Lee and Geoff White
Despite being isolated from much of the rest of the international community, North Korea has emerged as an unexpected powerhouse in the realm of cybercrime…
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The Fall of the Soviet Union, with Vladislav Zubok
This past weekend marked the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. To discuss the collapse and its implications, Bryce Klehm sat down with…
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Lawfare Archive: Surveillance Reform After Snowden
From October 17, 2015: Last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies hosted Ben, along with Laura Donohue of Georgetown Law School, former NSA…
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Lawfare Archive: Jonna Mendez on 'The Moscow Rules'
From July 28, 2019: In the 1950s and 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency had a major problem. The streets of Moscow were a virtually impossible operating…
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Lawfare Archive: Russia Breaking Bad and the Future of the International Order
From August 23, 2014: News broke yesterday that the Russian military has moved artillery units inside of Ukraine and that Russian troops are actively using…
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Working Toward Transparency and Accountability in Content Moderation
In 2018, a group of academics and free expression advocates convened in Santa Clara, California, for a workshop. They emerged with the Santa Clara Principles…
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The JFK Assassination Documents, with Gerald Posner and Mark Zaid
President Biden recently authorized the release of almost 1,500 documents related to the JFK assassination. But ten times that number still have had their…
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Merrick Garland, Ed Levi and the Power of Speech
Merrick Garland has been getting a lot of criticism these days, and a lot of it is less than entirely fair, or at least it's premature. But Andrew Kent, Quinta…
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The Largest Counterterrorism Investigation in History, with Aki Peritz
In 2006, al-Qaeda-trained operatives planned and nearly executed an operation to destroy passenger aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean. Because it was discovered…
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Lawfare Archive: Jefferson Powell on ‘Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of U.S. Drone War’
From May 21, 2016: Four years ago, Anwar al Awlaki—an American citizen—was killed in an American drone strike in Yemen, marking the first targeted killing of a…
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Lawfare Archive: Bruce Schneier on 'Click Here to Kill Everybody'
From September 18, 2018: Security technologist Bruce Schneier's latest book, "Click Here to Kill Everybody: Security and Survival in a Hyper-connected World,"…
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Peng Shuai
On November 2, the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai publicly accused on social media a former vice-premier of China of sexual assault. Chinese authorities…
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Free the Data!
On this show, we’ve discussed no end of proposals for how to regulate online platforms. But there’s something many of those proposals are missing: data about…
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The D.C. Circuit Rejects Trump
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals last week issued a surprisingly under-discussed opinion in the case of Trump v. Thompson, which involves the production of…
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Caroline Rose on Syria’s Role in the Captagon Trade
Syria’s decade-long civil war has left the state and economy shells of their former selves. But a new industry is stepping in to fill the void: the manufacture…
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Bart Gellman on Trump's Next Coup
Barton Gellman is a long-time national security reporter for the Washington Post, for The Atlantic and elsewhere. His latest article and Atlantic cover story…
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Lawfare Archive: Amanda Tyler on “Habeas Corpus in Wartime”
From May 15, 2018: In her new book, "Habeas Corpus in Wartime: From the Tower of London to Guantanamo Bay," Amanda Tyler presents a comprehensive account of…
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Lawfare Archive: Matt Olsen on the Future of Section 702
From June 3, 2017: With the impending sunset of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in December 2017, debate is heating up over how the…
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Uncovering a Secret U.S. Airstrike in Syria
On March 18, 2019, the U.S. conducted an airstrike in Baghuz, Syria, as part of its battle against the Islamic State. Two bombs were dropped killing dozens of…
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Content Moderation’s Original “Decider”
We talk a lot about how content moderation involves a lot of hard decisions and trade-offs—but at the end of the day, someone has to make a decision about what…
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Making Sense of the Crisis in Ethiopia
For the past year, the country of Ethiopia has been embroiled in a brutal civil war. At the center of it is Tigray, a region that has played a prominent role…
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COVID and Intelligence with Eric Swalwell, Julie Gerberding and Matt Berrett
COVID-19 has shown us all that pandemics aren’t just a public health issue, but a national security one as well. Are America’s national security institutions…
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Trouble Brewing in Ukraine
It's a scary time along the Ukrainian-Russian border these days. Russian troops are amassing in alarming numbers, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky…
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Lawfare Archive: Bob Bauer on Trump and the White House Counsel
From May 27, 2017: Amidst the hurricane of news coming out of the White House in recent weeks, one question has surfaced again and again: why isn't White House…
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Lawfare Archive: A House Divided
From May 6, 2017: Three months into the Trump presidency, where does the relationship between the President and the intelligence community stand? Donald Trump…