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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:03:12

Lawfare Archive: Making Sense of the UFO Hearing with...

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2024/12/24

From July 31, 2023: This past week, the House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs held a spirited hearing on an unusual topic: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, or UAPs, the more correct term for what are commonly called UFOs, or Unidentified Flying Objects. The witnesses included two military veterans who claimed to have borne eyewitness to UAPs, and an intelligence community whistleblower who claims to have heard secondhand from contacts about a range of

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51:42

Lawfare Daily: Accountability for Abu Ghraib

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2024/12/23

On today's podcast,LawfareExecutive Editor Natalie Orpett talks with Michael Posner, a professor of business and human rights at New York University, about the landmark verdict last month inAl-Shimari v. CACI.The case involvedclaims against a government contractorfor its role in the abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib detention facility in Iraq in 2004. It became the first case of its kind to make it to trial—and now a jury has returned a verdict finding the company liable and imposing $42 million

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47:13

Lawfare Archive: A TikTok Ban and the First Amendment

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2024/12/22

From April 14, 2023: Over the past few years, TikTok has become a uniquely polarizing social media platform. On the one hand, millions of users, especially those in their teens and twenties, love the app. On the other hand, the government is concerned that TikTok's vulnerability to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party makes it a serious national security threat. There's even talk of banning the app altogether. But would that be legal? In particular, does the First Amendment allow the government

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48:45

Lawfare Archive: The Justice Department, Congress and...

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2024/12/21

From June 15, 2021: A spree of stories has emerged over the last week or so that the Justice Department under the prior administration obtained phone and email records of several journalists, several members of Congress and staffers, and even family members. It has provoked a mini scandal, calls for investigation, howls of rage and serious questions. To discuss it all, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Gabe Rottman of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, former FBI agent Pete

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44:38

Lawfare Daily: Adam Thierer on the Bipartisan House...

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2024/12/20

Adam Thierer, Senior Fellow for the Technology & Innovation team at R Street, joins Kevin Frazier, Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to examine alengthy, detailed report issued by the Bipartisan House Task Force on AI. Thierer walks throughhis own analysisof the report and considers some counterarguments to his primary concern that the report did not adequately address the developing patchwork of state

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1:22:26

Rational Security: The “Trashed on Trash Mountain”...

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2024/12/19

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Anna Bower and Natalie Orpett and Lawfare Contributing Editor Michel Paradis to talk about the week’s biggest national security news stories, including:“A Justice Delayed Still Has Justice on the Mind.” After weeks of waiting, New York state court judge Justice Juan Merchan has finally become the first judge to apply the Supreme Court’s Trump v. United States immunity decision, holding that incoming President Donald Trump’s convictions under New

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47:08

Lawfare Daily: Frictionless Government and Foreign...

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2024/12/19

For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Ashley Deeks, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Kristen Eichensehr, also a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, but currently a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, to discuss their forthcoming law review article, “Frictionless Government and Foreign Relations,” which focuses on the dangers that can arise in moments where there appears to be broad consensus on a particular set

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51:14

Lawfare Daily: Susan Landau and Alan Rozenshtein...

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2024/12/18

In response to the compromise of telecommunication companies by the Chinese hacker group Salt Typhoon, senior officials from the FBI and CISA recommended that American citizens use encrypted messaging apps to minimize the chances of their communications being intercepted. This marks a departure in law enforcement’s position on the use of encrypted communications.Susan Landau, Professor of Cyber Security and Policy in Computer Science at Tufts University, and Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of

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1:18:44

Chatter: The Legacy of “The Hunt for Red October”...

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2024/12/17

Shane Harris makes no secret about his love for the film version of this Cold War submarine thriller, based on the Tom Clancy novel. It’s his favorite movie. So he was delighted to welcome fellow obsessive Katherine Voyles to the podcast. A PhD in English, Voyles writes about national security in culture, as well as the culture of national security. She and Shane talked about why they love the movie, their favorite scenes and characters, and how the story influenced--maybe even created--an entire

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1:02:32

Lawfare Daily: Elle Reeve on "Black Pill" and...

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2024/12/17

CNN correspondent Elle Reeve has spent the last decade reporting on extremism in the United States. Her book, "Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society and Capture American Politics" provides an insider's glimpse into the "insidious"—and underestimated—world of alt-right internet culture that is now at the center of the Republican Party under Donald Trump.LawfareAssociate Editor Katherine Pompilio sat down with Reeve to discuss her investigative

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37:19

Lawfare Daily: Sam Manning on Benefits Sharing in the...

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2024/12/16

Sam Manning, Senior Research Fellow at GovAI, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to discuss his research on different options to share AI's benefits at the international level. The two also explore Sam's analysis of the incentives that may steer adoption of different benefits sharing strategies and hisplans for future AI research. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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58:37

Lawfare Archive: What's Going on in Syria

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2024/12/15

From October 19, 2019: It's been a horrible week in northeastern Syria. The U.S. abandoned its Kurdish allies after the president had a conversation by phone with Turkish President Erdogan and pulled the plug on the stabilizing U.S. presence in the region. The Turkish government began a major incursion over the border, which has produced significant casualties and major questions about ISIS detainees in Kurdish custody.To talk through it all, we pulled together quite a group. In the first half of

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1:04:58

Lawfare Daily: What is Going On in Syria?

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2024/12/14

In alive conversation on December 12,LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareSenior Editors Scott Anderson, Middle East Institute Senior Fellow Charles Lister, and Syrian pro-democracy activist Ammar Abdulhamid to discuss Syrian rebels overthrowing the Bashar al-Assad regime, what the current situation on the ground is, what the reactions of foreign government’s has been, and more. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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56:46

Lawfare Daily: Understanding the DC Circuit Court's...

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2024/12/13

At a virtual panel conversation co-hosted byLawfareand NYU's Center for Technology Policy, center Director Scott Brennen moderated a conversation betweenLawfareSenior Editor and University of Minnesota law professor Alan Rozenshtein, University of North Carolina law professor Mary-Rose Papandrea, and Georgetown law professor Anupam Chander, about the recentD.C. Circuit decisionupholding the TikTok divestment-or-ban law and what that means for the future of both TikTok and the First Amendment. Get

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1:14:52

Rational Security: The “Tornado Kash” Edition

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2024/12/12

This week, Scott was joined by his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Eugenia Lostri, and Tyler McBrien to break down the week's big national security news, including:“The Long Road to Damascus.” Syria’s Assad regime collapsed suddenly last week in the face of a rebel offensive, ending thirteen years of revolution. What comes next, however, is anyone’s guess. How will this shift impact regional security? And how is the incoming Trump administration likely to respond?“Pardonez-Moi.” President-elect

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41:35

Lawfare Daily: Pro-Democracy Protests in Georgia

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2024/12/12

On November 28, Georgia Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze announced that he was suspending Georgia’s accession process to the European Union. In the weeks since, thousands of protestors have demonstrated in the capital city, Tbilisi, and across the country.LawfareAssociate Editor for Communications Anna Hickey sat down with Dr. Beka Kobakhidze, Professor and Co-chair of MA Program in Modern History of Georgia at Ilia State University, to discuss the protests, Russia’s growing influence in the country

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27:24

Lawfare Daily: Ukrainian Lawmaker on Why Ukraine Must...

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2024/12/11

Ukraine’s defense industry has grown substantially after Russia’s full-scale invasion. But it also suffered from a huge domestic burden—a ban on arms exports, which forced companies to close down or relocate abroad. Ukrainian lawmakerHalyna Yanchenkosits down with Lawfare Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina to explain why exporting Ukrainian weapons will benefit Ukraine and global security. Get for Ad Free Podcasts Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:27:06

Chatter: German Grand Strategy and ... Kraftwerk,...

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2024/12/10

International politics and security expert Dr. Ben Tallis, who now directs the Berlin-based Democratic Strategy Initiative, joined David Priess to discuss the challenges of Germangrand strategy since 1945, the country's musical culture in the 1950s and 1960s, the origins and evolution of Kraftwerk and its members' effort to reconceptualize German identity, the band's influence on musicians globally, U2 and post-Cold War Europe, how Germany became the most respected country in the world by 2020,

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51:55

Lawfare Daily: What Does the Inspector General Do?

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2024/12/10

Jack Goldsmith sits down with Glenn Fine, the former principal deputy Inspector General of the Department of Defense and former Acting IG of the Department of Defense, and author of the new book, “Watchdogs: Inspectors General and the Battle for Honest and Accountable Government.” They discuss the history of inspectors general and early constitutional concerns about the role that inspectors general play, Fine’s experiences at both the Department of Justice and the Department of Defense, the 2022

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42:04

Lawfare Daily: Kevin Xu on the State of the AI Arms...

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2024/12/09

Kevin Xu, founder of Interconnected Capital and author of theInterconnected newsletter, joins Kevin Frazier, Senior Research Fellow in the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to analyze China’s AI ambitions, its current AI capacities, and the likely effect ofupdated export controlson the nation’s AI efforts. The two pay particular attention to the different AI development strategies being deployed by the U.S. and China and how those

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