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The Lawfare Podcast

The Lawfare Institute

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.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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40:19

Lawfare Daily: The Offensive Cyber Industry and...

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2025/07/07

Winnona Bernsen, nonresident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and founder ofDistrictCon, joinsLawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sherman to discuss her recently released report"Crash (Exploit) and Burn: Securing the Offensive Cyber Supply Chain to Counter China in Cyberspace." They discuss the offensive cyber industry, the private sector and individual players, and the government procurement pipelines in the United States and China. They also discuss the strengths and

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1:40:22

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/07/06

In a live conversation on July 3,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareLegal Fellow James Pearce andLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss updates in the civil and criminal cases of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a D.C. district court judge's injunction against the Trump administration’s invasion proclamation, attacks on law firms, and more.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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43:54

Lawfare Archive: Itsiq Benizri on the EU AI Act

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2025/07/05

From February 16, 2024: The EU has finally agreed to its AI Act. Despite the political agreement reached in December 2023, some nations maintained some reservations about the text, making it uncertain whether there was a final agreement or not. They recently reached an agreement on the technical text, moving the process closer to a successful conclusion. The challenge now will be effective implementation.To discuss the act and its implications,LawfareFellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia

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49:42

Lawfare Archive: Mike Johnson’s National Security Agenda

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2025/07/04

From November 7, 2023: You probably already know that Rep. Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House. What you may not know is that every single one of the issues on his plate is a national security issue, at least in the short term.LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareSenior Editor and Brookings Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds to talk it all through. They talked about Israel aid, Ukraine aid, Taiwan assistance, the border, FISA Section 702, government shutdowns, and more. It's

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51:41

Lawfare Daily: Teun Janssen on Ukraine and a Big Europe

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2025/07/03

Teun Jansenn is a staff member at the European Parliament who works on issues of EU expansion and support for Ukraine. He joined Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk about the prospects of Europe's stepping up for Ukraine as the United States backs away. He also talked about why EU enlargement is essential to getting EU governance under control and the role that Ukraine might play in that process.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter atwww.patreon.com/lawfare. You can

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43:10

Lawfare Daily: Civil-Military Relations in the Trump...

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2025/07/02

For today's episode,LawfareForeign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewsLindsay Cohn, an associate professor at the Naval War College and Columbia University, to discuss the Trump administration's handling of the U.S. military. Cohn discusses the firings of senior military officials, military parades, and the use of the U.S. military at the U.S-Mexico border and in Los Angeles. She also assesses which policies are of genuine concern and which are overstated.To receive ad-free podcasts, become

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43:38

Lawfare Daily: Prosecuting the Sahel's War...

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2025/07/01

On today’s episode,LawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Lindsay Freeman, Director of Technology, Law & Policy at the Human Rights Center, UC Berkeley School of Law, to discussher recentLawfarearticle, “War Crimes for Fun and Profit.”They talk about how and why so-called war influencers linked to private military companies such as the Wagner Group in the Sahel areposting “conflict content” online. They also address why this graphic and gory content, which often amounts to

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1:51:09

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/06/30

In alive conversation onJune 27,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareLegal Fellow James Pearce andLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling on nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship case, the whistleblower complaint about Emil Bove’s actions as deputy attorney general, the disbarment of Kenneth Chesebro, ongoing litigation over the federalization of the California National Guard, and so much more.Support this show

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54:35

Lawfare Archive: Steve Vladeck on Emergency Powers...

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2025/06/29

From March 19, 2020: What can the president do in a national emergency? What limits what the president can do? What authorizes the president to do all those things he can do in a national emergency? Is the president abusing, misusing, using appropriately, or under-using emergency powers during the coronavirus crisis? And what are the logical end points for how far this could go? For this bonus edition, Benjamin Wittes got on the phone with Steve Vladeck to work through these questions and talk about

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27:09

Lawfare Archive: Natan Sachs on Israeli Anti-solutionism

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2025/06/28

From December 5, 2015: The show this week featuresNatan Sachs, a Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, who recentlypublished an articleinForeign Affairson anti-solutionism as strategy in the Israel-Palestine conflict.During his conversation withLawfareEditor-in-Chief Ben Wittes, Sachs argues that the apparent absence of a long-term strategy on the Israeli Right for dealing with the Palestinians is actually better described as a belief on the part of the Israeli Right that there are

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1:08:15

Lawfare Daily: Ukraine-Russia Negotiations with Eric...

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2025/06/27

Lawfare Legal Fellow Mykhailo Soldatenko sits down with Eric Ciaramella, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and Samuel Charap, Senior Political Scientist at Rand Corporation, to discuss the key issues in the Ukraine-Russia talks. They chat about the national interests of the interested parties, whether a negotiatedsettlement is possible, and what form a potentialagreement may take. They also discuss credible security arrangementsfor Ukraine to prevent

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1:18:09

Rational Security: The “Pronghorn Shirt Daily” Edition

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2025/06/26

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes and Natalie Orpett, and University of Virginia School of Law professor Ashley Deeks, to talk through the week’s big national security news, including:“Bracing for Fallout.” In a surprise move, President Trump joined Israel’s military campaign against Iran over the weekend, using a specialized U.S. ordinance to hit Iranian nuclear sites that were beyond Israel’s early reach. It’s unclear to what extent the attack set back Iran’s

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53:06

Lawfare Daily: ‘Ransom War’ with Max Smeets

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2025/06/26

Max Smeets, Co-Director of Virtual Routes and Senior Researcher at ETH Zurich, joins Lawfare’s Jonathan Cedarbaum and Justin Sherman to discuss his recently released book“Ransom War: How Cybercrime Became a Threat to National Security.” They discuss the history of ransomware (including the term itself), how the threats have evolved over the years, and some of the major drivers of innovation and entrepreneurialism within the ransomware ecosystem. They discuss Max’s findings on the “trust paradox”

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41:11

Lawfare Daily: A Right to Warn: Protecting AI...

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2025/06/25

In the wake of controversy over OpenAI’s restrictive nondisclosure agreements, a bipartisan group of senators has introduced the AI Whistleblower Protection Act. In this episode, Lawfare Research Director Alan Rozenshtein spoke with Charlie Bullock, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Law & AI and co-author of a newLawfarearticle on the bill, about its key provisions. They discuss why this bill is an important, light-touch proposal that offers a way to increase government access to

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59:34

Lawfare Daily: U.S. Strikes on Iranian Nuclear...

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2025/06/24

In a live conversation on June 23,LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke toLawfareSenior Editor Scott Anderson,LawfareForeign Policy Editor and CSIS fellow Daniel Byman, and Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution Suzanne Maloney about the American attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, what the reaction within Iran has been, whether the strikes were legal under domestic and international law, and more.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter

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1:34:12

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/06/23

In alive conversation onJune 20,LawfareExecutive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down withLawfareLegal Fellow James Pearce andLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower, Scott Anderson, and Roger Parloff to discuss the litigation over President Trump federalizing the California National Guard to send them to L.A., the the order for the release of Mahmoud Khalil, the Supreme Court denying an application to quickly consider the legality of President Trump’s tariffs, and more.You can find information onlegal

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37:54

Lawfare Archive: Eric Adamson on the NATO Summit

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2025/06/22

From July 14, 2023: The NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, just wrapped up, and the big news is that Sweden is in, and Ukraine is not. Eric Adamson of the Atlantic Council and the Swedish Defense Association is a Swedish defense policy analyst who observed the NATO summit.He joinedLawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss the two big things that happened: the Swedish resolution of the dispute with Turkey that impeded Swedish NATO accession until now, and the frustrating failure of NATO to

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1:05:52

Lawfare Archive: El Salvador’s President Cracks Down...

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2025/06/21

From May 9, 2023: Since March 2022, El Salvador has been under a state of exception as its President Nayib Bukele seeks to crack down on the country’s powerful gangs. Bukele, who once described himself on Twitter as the “world’s coolest dictator,” has engaged in a prolonged attack on El Salvador’s democratic institutions. And the crackdown has resulted in a range of human rights abuses. At the same time, Bukele really does seem to have been successful in curbing gang violence, and his popularity is

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59:28

Lawfare Daily: Trump’s Rescissions Request,...

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2025/06/20

For today’s episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds sat down for a conversation about the rescissions package President Trump recently put forward to Congress, how it relates to the litigation over the president’s attempted cuts to U.S. foreign assistance, and what it all signals about how the administration intends to handle impoundments moving forward.Discussed in this episode:“The Myth of

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57:58

Lawfare Archive: Jack Goldsmith and Bob Bauer on...

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2025/06/19

From April 12, 2024: The Insurrection Act is a provision that allows the president to deploy the U.S. military for domestic law enforcement. It’s been invoked dozens of times by presidents to respond to crises in the over 230 years that it’s been around, but it hasn’t been reformed in centuries. In recent years, the Insurrection Act has come back into public focus because of its implication in a number of domestic crises, prompting a renewed conversation about whether it’s finally time to curb the

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