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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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Lawfare Archive: Mira Rapp-Hooper and Stephan Haggard on North Korea
From August 5, 2017: The growing threat from North Korea has intensified during the past few weeks after a series of missile tests demonstrated that the Kim…
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Lawfare Archive: Ambassador David O'Sullivan on the US-EU Relationship
From October 9, 2018: It's easy to spend all our time focusing on American domestic politics these days, but the rest of the world is not going away. Take the…
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Hostage Diplomacy Between China, Canada and the United States
Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei, is free, having been put on a flight from Canada back to her native China. Moments later, two Canadians…
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Defamation Down Under
Just two days ago, on September 28, CNN announced that it was turning off access to its Facebook pages in Australia. Why would the network cut off Facebook…
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Ronen Bergman on the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine
Ronan Bergman is a reporter for the New York Times and the author of the book, “Rise and Kill First,” a history of Israeli targeted killings. Most recently…
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An Election in Germany
Over the weekend, Germany held elections to see who will succeed Angela Merkel as Germany's chancellor. The results are in, but there's still a lot of…
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Benjamin Haddad on Submarine Contracts and French Anger
France is mad. More specifically, France is mad about Australia reneging on a deal for French submarines and opting to go instead with an American contract…
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Lawfare Archive: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on ‘Ashley's War’ and the Role of Women on the Special Ops Battlefield
From January 23, 2016: The fourth Hoover Book Soiree, held this week in Hoover's beautiful Washington, D.C. offices, featured Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on her…
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Lawfare Archive: Shivshankar Menon on India's Role in the World
From October 11, 2014: On his recent trip to the United States, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized India's desire to take up a greater role on the…
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The Quad Summit with Lavina Lee, Tanvi Madan and Sheila Smith
The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, more commonly known as the Quad, brings together the United States, Australia, Japan and India in strategic dialogue on…
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Inside the Facebook Files
Today, we’re bringing you another episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem. We’ll be talking about “The Facebook Files”—a…
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What's Up at Congress with Quinta Jurecic and Molly Reynolds
Congress, which has been on recess for the month of August, has a lot on its plate. The January 6 committee is starting to receive information, and it has gone…
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Milley, Trump and Civil-Military Relations with Peter Feaver, Kori Schake and Alexander Vindman
A new book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa contains reporting about several controversial actions by Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley in late…
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Seth Stoughton on the Shooting of Ashli Babbitt
On January 6, a mob of pro-Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol during the certification of the Electoral College vote. As lawmakers were being evacuated…
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Lawfare Archive: Defending an Unowned Internet
A discussion at the Berkman Center: In the wake of the disclosures about government surveillance and the rise of corporate-run applications and protocols, is…
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Lawfare Archive: Benjamin Wittes Gives a Talk at Parliament on Whether Drones are the New Guantanamo
Lawfare's editor in chief, Benjamin Wittes, gives a talk at the Palace of Westminster--sponsored by the Henry Jackson Society--on whether drones are becoming…
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A Sneak Peak: Lawfare’s New “No Bull” Podcast
It’s Lawfare No Bull” with: “For today’s episode of the Lawfare Podcast, we are bringing you a preview of a new podcast Lawfare is launching: Lawfare ‘No…
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The Broken Rube Goldberg Machine of Online Advertising
Today, we’re bringing you another episode of Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information ecosystem.In a 2018 Senate hearing, Facebook CEO Mark…
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Bruce Reidel with Breaking 9/11 News
Lawfare Editor-In-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Bruce Reidel of the Brookings Institution to discuss a pair of new articles in Lawfare on his first hand…
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U.S Security Commitments Post-Afghanistan Withdrawl
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Jack Goldsmith and Ben Wittes on Lawfare Origins and 9/11
More than 11 years ago. Bobby Chesney, Jack Goldsmith and Ben started a national security law blog called Lawfare. Focused, almost exclusively on issues…
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Lawfare Archive: How Osama bin Laden Escaped Afghanistan
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Lawfare Archive: Kent Roach on the 9/11 Effect
Lawfare's Alan Rozenshtein interviews University of Toronto Professor Kent Roach about his new book, The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism. Hosted on…
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Marc Polymeropoulos on the CIA, 9/11 and Havana Syndrome
Marc Polymeropoulos served for 26 years in the CIA. He joined the agency working on Afghanistan in the 1990s and moved on to operational roles across the…
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Content Moderation Comes for Parler and Gettr
Let’s say you’re a freedom-loving American fed up with Big Tech’s effort to censor your posts. Where can you take your business? One option is Parler—the…
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‘Humane’ with Samuel Moyn
Jack Goldsmith sat down with Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence at Yale Law School and a professor of history at Yale University. The two…
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Rational Security 2.0, The "Bloodless Coup" Edition
On this premiere episode of Rational Security 2.0, new hosts Alan Rozenshtein, Quinta Jurecic, and Scott R. Anderson are joined by special guest Benjamin…
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Tony Saich on 100 Years of the CCP
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. To get more insight into the workings of the CCP, Bryce Klehm sat down…
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Lawfare Archive: Danielle Citron on Feminism and National Security
From December 12, 2019: Live from the #NatSecGirlSquad Conference in Washington, DC, on December 12, 2019, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Danielle Citron…
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Lawfare Archive: Phil Carter on Civil-Military Relations in the Trump Administration
From February 20, 2018: The military has been not been a refuge from the Trump administration's norm-defying nature. Jack Goldsmith speaks to Phil Carter, a…
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Lawfare Archive: Shane Harris on Drones
From January 29, 2012: Our subject in the podcast's inaugural episode is a remarkable article by journalist Shane Harris entitled "Out of the Loop: The…
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Sue Gordon and John McLaughlin on Intelligence and the Afghanistan Withdrawal
Many questions involving intelligence and Afghanistan have come up in the past few weeks. Did intelligence prepare policymakers for the rapid collapse of the…
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The Disinformation Industrial Complex
This week on our Arbiters of Truth series on our online information ecosystem, we’re going to be talking about … disinformation! What else? It’s everywhere…
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Data Brokers and National Security
A privacy and national security threat that goes under-discussed is data brokers, the secretive industry of companies buying, aggregating, selling, licensing…
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‘Reign of Terror’ with Spencer Ackerman
Jack Goldsmith sat down with national security reporter Spencer Ackerman, the author of the new book, “Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America…
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AUMF Reform After Afghanistan
Since January, talk about reforming the nearly 20-year-old 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, that provides the legal basis for most…
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Lawfare Archive: Bob Bauer and A.B. Culvahouse on Defending the President
From October 7, 2017: Last month, Lawfare and Foreign Policy hosted an event on lawyering for the Trump presidency. Susan Hennessey spoke with former White…
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Lawfare Archive: Michelle Melton on Climate Change as a National Security Threat
From April 16, 2019: Since November, Lawfare Contributor Michelle Melton has run a series on our website about Climate Change and National Security, examining…
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The World Reacts to Afghanistan
Much of the world has been watching the rapidly developing situation in Afghanistan with a mix of shock and anguish. Bryce Klehm spoke with five experts to get…
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Why the Taliban Can’t Use Facebook
When the Taliban seized power following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan this month, major platforms like Facebook and Twitter faced a quandary. What…
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‘Bitskrieg’ with John Arquilla
Jack Goldsmith sat down with John Arquilla, an analyst with the RAND Corporation and professor emeritus with the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. He's the…
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China’s Perfect Police State in Xinjiang
Bryce Klehm spoke with Geoffrey Cain, an investigative journalist and the author of the new book, “The Perfect Police State: An Undercover Odyssey into China's…
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Tom Nichols on ‘Our Own Worst Enemy’
All across the world, citizens of liberal democracies are justifying their rejection of democratic norms and traditions as a protest against a cast of elite…
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Lawfare Archive: Joseph Nye on "Do Morals Matter?: Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump"
From March 7, 2020: We ask a lot of questions about foreign policy on this podcast. Why do certain countries make certain decisions? What are the interests of…
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Lawfare Archive: Jihadology Podcast: al-Qaeda's Franchising Strategy
From February 2, 2016: Barak Mendelsohn comes on the Jihadology Podcast to discuss his new book, “The al-Qaeda Franchise: The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its…
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The State of the Kabul Airlift
The city of Kabul’s international airport has become the unlikely focal point of an unprecedented humanitarian effort as U.S. soldiers and diplomats seek to…
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Facebook Shuts Down Research On Itself
In October 2020, Facebook sent a cease and desist letter to two New York University researchers collecting data on the ads Facebook hosts on its platform…
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Zack Beauchamp on the American Right’s Embrace of the Hungarian Regime of Viktor Orbán
Earlier this month, Tucker Carlson, whose nightly news show on Fox has become the most popular show in U.S. cable news history, traveled to Budapest to record…
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After the Fall in Afghanistan
This past Sunday, Americans woke up to a new reality in the country of Afghanistan—the Afghan government that the United States and its allies have supported…
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How Can Congress Take on the Ransomware Problem?
The United States government has been wrestling with what to do about a particular type of cyber threat—ransomware—that holds a victim's data and computer…
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Lawfare Archive: Fighting Deep Fakes
From August 4, 2018: Technologies that distort representations of reality, like audio, photo, and video editing software, are nothing new, but what happens…
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Lawfare Archive: A Conversation with John Rizzo
From April 19, 2014: Benjamin Wittes had meant to have a book review of former CIA lawyer John Rizzo's new book, Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and…
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Mayank Varia and Riana Pfefferkorn on Apple's Decision to Scan for Child Exploitation Material
Two of the biggest controversies in tech are how to stop the spread of child pornography and other exploitation material, and whether encryption prevents…
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With Disinformation, The Past Isn’t Past
We live in the Disinformation Age. The internet has revolutionized our information ecosystem and caused disruption totally unprecedented in human history, and…
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A Moratorium Fiasco
You've probably heard about the craziness around the Biden administration’s new eviction moratorium. They consulted outside law professors instead of the…
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Ben Kaiser and Jonathan Mayer on Fighting Misinformation Online
The spread of misinformation is one of the biggest challenges facing social media platforms. A standard approach is to label suspicious posts or links so as to…
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The Olympics Aren't All Fun and Games
The Olympics ended yesterday after more than two weeks of exciting international competition in Tokyo. On this episode of the podcast, we're taking a look back…
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Unfinished Business at the Department of Justice
It's been a busy few weeks at the Justice Department. There was a major indictment of the chair of the former president's inaugural committee. There have been…
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Facebook’s Thoughts on Its Oversight Board
There have been a thousand hot takes about the Facebook Oversight Board, the Supreme Court-like thing Facebook set up to oversee its content moderation. The…
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Peter Bergen Reassessing Osama bin Laden
The U.S. raid on the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, that brought Osama bin Laden to ultimate justice also recovered nearly half a million files. In 2017…