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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 EditionOrin Kerr and Asaf Lubin on Apple v. NSO Group
Late last month, Apple sued the Israeli technology firm NSO Group under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That's the federal law that criminalizes computer…
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How Zoom Thinks About Content Moderation
This week on Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with some of the people behind the app…
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Trump and His Intelligence Briefings with David Priess
The CIA has opened a window into former president Donald Trump's always interesting and frequently contentious relationship with the intelligence community. A…
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Cyber Privateering
Cybersecurity is the responsibility of everyone. A cyber attack is no longer confined to the digital realm and can have real impact on various industries like…
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Timothy Frye on ‘Weak Strongman: The Limits of Power in Putin's Russia’
Dominic Cruz Bustillos sat down with Timothy Frye, the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy within the Department of Political Science…
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Lawfare Archive: HASC Hearing on Outside Perspectives on the AUMF
From February 28, 2015: On Thursday of this week, Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney, along with General Jack Keane, appeared before the House Armed…
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Lawfare Archive: Adam Segal on ‘The Hacked World Order’
From April 2, 2016: This week, Adam Segal of the Council on Foreign Relations joins Jack Goldsmith at a Hoover Book Soiree for a discussion of his new book…
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The Soviet Perspective on the Nuremberg Trials
Last month marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg Trials. To better understand the trials and their legacy, Bryce Klehm sat down with Francine…
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Rational Security: The "Nothing To Be Thankful For" Edition
For Thanksgiving, we’re bringing you something a little different—an episode of Rational Security, our light, conversational show about national security and…
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David Kaye on How We Address the Global Spyware Problem
On November 3, the Commerce Department added four foreign companies to what is often referred to as the “Entity List,” for engaging in activities that are…
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Lincoln and the Broken Constitution
Jack Goldsmith sat down with Noah Feldman, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University, to discuss his new book,”The Broken Constitution…
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Mary Sarotte on ‘Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate’
Alexander Vindman sat down with Dr. Mary Sarotte, the author of the new book, “Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate,” to…
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Lawfare Archive: Avril Haines, Eric Rosenbach, and David Sanger on U.S. Offensive Cyber Operations
From May 28, 2019: From the Washington Post’s February report that U.S. Cyber Command took a Russian disinformation operation offline on the day of the 2018…
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Lawfare Archive: The Future of Somalia
From August 9, 2014: Washington was abuzz this week as more than 50 African leaders were in town for the first U.S.-Africa Summit. On August 8, Hassan Sheikh…
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Fiona Hill on ‘There Is Nothing for You Here’
Alexander Vindman sat down with Dr. Fiona Hill, the Robert Bosch senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at…
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The Facebook Oversight Board, One Year On
It’s been roughly a year since the Facebook Oversight Board opened its doors for business—and while you may mostly remember the Board from its decision on…
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Hannah Bloch-Wehba on Police Transparency
Hannah Bloch-Wehba is an associate professor of law at the Texas A&M School of Law. She’s also the author of a recent Lawfare post, entitled “Alternative…
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Chattering with Shane and David
Lawfare has a new podcast: Chatter! Hosted by none other than David Priess, publisher of Lawfare and the Lawfare Institute's chief operating officer, and Shane…
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Roger Parloff on the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot Prosecutions
Roger Parloff is a senior editor at Lawfare and the author of the recent article, “What Do—and Will—the Criminal Prosecutions of the Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters…
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Lawfare Archive: Joel Brenner on America the Vulnerable
From February 20, 2012: Joel Brenner, who served as inspector general of the National Security Agency and as the national counterintelligence executive in the…
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Lawfare Archive: Jameel Jaffer, Bob Litt, and William Banks Debate FISA
From November 22, 2014: Earlier this month, the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security held its “24th Annual Review of the Field of National…
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Michel Paradis on Majid Khan
Majid Khan pled guilty in a military commission at Guantanamo eight years ago, but he has been back in the news of late. At a sentencing hearing at Guantanamo…
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Video Games Cannot Escape the Content Moderation Reckoning
Content moderation in video games turns out to be just as much of a bummer as content moderation everywhere else, perhaps even more so. This week on Arbiters…
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Susan Landau and Ross Anderson on the Going Dark Debate and the Risks of Client-Side Scanning
The “going dark” debate, which concerns how society and the technology industry should address the challenges that law enforcement faces in investigating crime…
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America, China and the Tragedy of Great-Power Politics
Jack Goldsmith sat down with John Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science department at the University of…
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Ambassador Doug Silliman on What's Next in U.S.-Iraq Relations
The complicated relationship between Iraq and the United States is once again approaching a crossroads. Parliamentary elections held in Iraq last month promise…
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Lawfare Archive: Kenneth Anderson on Living with the UN
From June 7, 2012: We don't review our own books here on Lawfare—not even if we happen to be Lawfare's book review editor. But Benjamin Wittes sat down the…
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Lawfare Archive: The Case For and Against a FISA Advocate
From June 14, 2014: At the 2014 Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference, a panel of experts debated the pros and cons of adding outside lawyers to litigation…
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Abigail Spanberger and Elissa Slotkin from CIA to Congress
Only twice in history have two women who served as CIA officers been elected to Congress. The first time was 2018, and the second was 2020—both of them…
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What Is Integrity in Social Media?
There’s been a lot of news recently about Facebook, and a lot of that news has focused on the frustration of employees assigned to the platform’s civic…
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The Metaverse and Its Discontents
Last week, Facebook unveiled its new corporate brand—Meta—and its corresponding vision for a new immersive world called the metaverse. The rebrand announcement…
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Shane Harris on the ODNI’s Coronavirus Assessment
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued a declassified assessment of the origins of the coronavirus, and it’s a bit of a muddle. Was it…
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Mark Nevitt and Erin Sikorsky on Climate Change and National Security
Last week, the Department of Defense, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Department of Homeland Security and National Security Council each…
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Lawfare Archive: Sue Biniaz on the Trump Administration and International Climate Policy
From March 27, 2019: From 1989 to early 2017, Sue Biniaz was the lead climate lawyer and a climate negotiator at the State Department. She was also a key…
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Lawfare Archive: Mary McCord and Jason Blazakis on Criminalizing Domestic Terrorism
From January 5, 2019: The murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville in 2017 and other recent events have drawn in the public discourse to the fact that…
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The SEC and the Facebook Papers
This week on Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem, we’re talking about a subject that doesn’t come up much on the Lawfare Podcast…
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Somalia, Al-Shabab, and the United States, with Julian Barnes and Emilia Columbo
In November 2020, a raid against terrorists in Somalia led to the death of an American working for the CIA Special Activities Center. This, after the Trump…
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Katrina Northrop on the Evergrande Debt Crisis
Evergrande is a massive Chinese real estate company that has found itself with more than $300 billion in liability and no real idea of how to get out of debt…
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Pete Strzok on Declining FISAs and Human Source Handling
Pete Strzok is a former counter-intelligence official at the FBI. He is the author most recently of an article in Lawfare entitled, “The Sussmann Indictment…
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Lawfare Archive: Rep. Adam Schiff on the Role of Congress in Protecting Liberal Democracy
From March 25, 2017: Between leading the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's first open hearing on Russian election interference on Monday, and…
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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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Container Shipping and Supply Chain Delays with Gregg Easterbrook
Ports in many countries are experiencing congestion. For weeks now, there have been reports that there will be delays in many common products, and people are…
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Twitter’s Head of Public Policy Explains the Company’s Advice to Regulators
On this week’s episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Nick Pickles, the…
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Everything You Wanted to Know About Executive Privilege But Were Afraid to Ask
Jonathan David Shaub is an assistant professor of law at the University of Kentucky. He is a former OLC attorney and the author of a series of recent Lawfare…
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Carissa Hessick on Jan. 6 Plea Bargains
Around a hundred people have already pleaded guilty to crimes in connection with the Jan. 6 attempted insurrection on the Capitol. What should we make of the…
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Liza Goitein and Bob Loeb on State Secrets
It has been a decade since the Supreme Court decided on a case involving the state secrets privilege, a common law rule that allows the government to block the…
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Lawfare Archive: Coronavirus, Federalism and Supply Chains: A Case Study
From April 25, 2020: We've covered this novel coronavirus from many angles, focusing on the disaster response issues that make up part of national security…
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Lawfare Archive: Deterring Russian Cyber Intrusions
From December 24, 2016: Whatever the President-elect might say on the matter, the question of Russian interference in the presidential election is not going…
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What's Up With the January 6 Investigation?
The January 6 investigating committee in the House is busily issuing subpoenas, collecting documents and negotiating with witnesses for depositions. It is also…
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Finstas, Falsehoods and the First Amendment
Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s recent testimony before Congress has set in motion a renewed cycle of outrage over the company’s practices—and a…
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What's Going on in Afghanistan?
Bryce Klehm sat down with Vanda Felbab-Brown, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Lawfare senior editor Scott R. Anderson, to discuss the current…
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Martijn Rasser on CIA and Emerging Technology
Last week, CIA director William Burns issued a statement with a number of organizational changes and other initiatives regarding the CIA. Most media attention…
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Adam Klein and Benjamin Wittes on FISA
Two weeks ago, the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General released a report on the FBI's mishandling of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act…
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Lawfare Archive: Maria Ressa on the Weaponization of Social Media
From October 15, 2020: On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek spoke with Maria Ressa, a Filipino-American…
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White House Pressure, the Justice Department and the Election
The majority staff of the Senate Judiciary Committee has issued an interim report, entitled “Subverting Justice: How the Former President and His Allies…
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Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith on Reforming the Presidency
It's been almost a year since Trump lost the presidency and over nine months since a new administration and a new congressional majority took power. We’re…
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Russia Cracks Down on Social Media
In the last few weeks, the Russian government has been turning up the heat on tech platforms in an escalation of its long-standing efforts to bring the…
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Jessica Davis on Terrorism Financing
Jessica Davis is the author of a new book on terrorism financing called, “Illicit Money: Financing Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century.” She's also the…
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U.S. Prosecutors Indict a Canadian ISIS Propagandist
Over the weekend, news broke about U.S. prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia indicting Mohammed Khalifa, a Canadian who traveled to Syria in 2013…
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The Saga of Eddie Gallagher and the Navy SEALs
Bryce Klehm sat down with David Philipps, a New York Times correspondent and the author of “Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs.”…