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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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38:31

Lawfare Archive: Foreign Agents and the Barrack...

The Lawfare Podcast ·

2024/09/29

From September 21, 2022: This past Monday, the criminal trial of Thomas Barrack began in federal court in the Eastern District of New York. Barrack, who served as an informal advisor to the 2016 Trump campaign and then as chair of Trump's inaugural committee, is alleged to have acted as a foreign agent of the United Arab Emirates. According to the indictment, Barrack acted as a back channel for the UAE to influence U.S. foreign policy.Lawfareexecutive editor Natalie Orpett sat down with Alex

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1:25:36

Lawfare Daily: National Security and the 2024...

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2024/09/28

This episode of “Lawfare Live: National Security and the 2024 Election” was recorded on September 24 in front of a live audience onYoutubeand Zoom.LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke toLawfareSenior Editors Scott R. Anderson, Molly Reynolds, Quinta Jurecic, and Anna Bower and Professor of Law at Stanford Law School Nate Persily. They discussed how Congress has prepared for the 2024 election, including the passage of the Electoral Count Reform Act of 2022, how the government and social media

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41:12

Lawfare Daily: Geoff Schaefer and Alyssa Lefaivre...

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2024/09/27

Geoff Schaefer, Head of Responsible AI at Booz Allen Hamilton, and Alyssa Lefaivre Škopac, an independent responsible AI strategist, join Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to detailthe Responsible AI Top-20 Controls. As governments, corporations, and nonprofits face increasing pressure to integrate AI into their operations, how to do so in an ethical and responsible fashion has remained an open question. Geoff and Alyssa offer

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1:14:52

Rational Security: The “Tortured Pundits Department”...

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2024/09/26

This week, Scott was joined by Natalie Orpett, Anna Bower, and Matt Gluck to talk over some of the week's big national security news, including:“Some Assembly Required.” On Tuesday, President Biden gave his fourth and final speech as president to the U.N. General Assembly. He used the occasion to reflect on the many foreign policy decisions of his presidency, including the withdrawal from Afghanistan, opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the (thus far unsuccessful) pursuit of a ceasefire

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57:31

Lawfare Daily: Steve Coll on Saddam Hussein and the...

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2024/09/26

Steve Coll’s latest book, “The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq,” seeks to explain why Saddam Hussein would put his regime at risk over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that didn’t exist.Saddam ultimately lost his regime, and his life, in part because he saw America as an omniscient puppeteer seeking to dominate the Middle East. The United States put thousands of troops in harm’s way in pursuit of a rogue WMD program that turned out to be a

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34:24

Lawfare Daily: Itsiq Benizri on the Regulatory and...

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2024/09/25

Itsiq Benizri, counsel in WilmerHale’s Brussels office, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to review the shocking and significant resignation of former European Commissioner Thierry Breton. Breton served as the EU’s commissioner for the internal market and played a major role in shaping and enforcing the EU’s digital regulations.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter atwww.patreon.com/lawfare. You

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1:23:27

Chatter: The Inside Story of the Challenger Disaster...

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2024/09/24

The explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger in January 1986 riveted millions of Americans, who watched the horrific event live on television. What they didn’t know then was that the tragedy was largely preventable, a disastrous result of hubris and “magical thinking” as much as flawed engineering.JournalistAdamHigginbotham’s new book, “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space,” is a definitive account of what went wrong, and how NASA failed to learn from its own

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56:14

Lawfare Daily: Exploding Pagers and Air Strikes

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2024/09/24

Israel and Hezbollah seem to be headed for a major war. Over the past several weeks, Israel has taken a series of escalatory steps along its northern border, targeting major Hezbollah figures, blowing up pagers used by thousands of Hezbollah operatives, and—most recently—hitting targets all over southern Lebanon associated with Hezbollah. Will it lead to all-out war? Lawfare’s Editor-in-Chief, Benjamin Wittes, sat down with Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman to

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1:08:08

Lawfare Daily: Lindsay Chervinsky on ‘Making the...

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2024/09/23

Lindsay Chervinsky is the Executive Director of the George Washington Library at Mount Vernon. She is also the author of a much celebrated new book on the John Adams presidency that is focused primarily on the national security decision-making of the second president and how it set norms for the conduct of the presidency and its powers with which we still live today. She sat down with Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to talk about how Adams defended presidential power while it was under

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51:48

Lawfare Archive: The Soleimani Strike Two Years Later

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2024/09/22

From: January 5, 2022: 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 convened a group of Brookings andLawfareexperts totalk aboutthe potential benefits and risks of the strike, and two years later, we got the gang back together. Benjamin Wittes sat down with Suzanne Maloney, the head of Foreign Policy program at Brookings and an Iran specialist; Dan Byman, terrorism expert, Middle East

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1:22:10

Lawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly...

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2024/09/21

This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on September 19 in front of a live audience onYouTubeand Zoom.LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke toLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower and Roger Parloff about Judge McAfee’s order dismissing 3 counts from the Fulton County indictment, what filings we are waiting on in D.C., a recentNew York Timesstory on the Supreme Court’s handling of this term’s Trump cases, and more.Learn more aboutLawfare’snew livestream seriesabout the

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47:02

Lawfare Daily: Bob Bauer and Liza Goitein on...

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2024/09/20

Bob Bauer, Professor of Practice and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at New York University School of Law, and Liza Goitein, Senior Director of Liberty & National Security at the Brennan Center, join Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to review the emergency powers afforded to the president under the National Emergency Act, International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the Insurrection Act. The trio also inspect

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1:12:47

Rational Security: The “Ms. Jackson, if You’re...

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2024/09/19

This week, Scott sat down withLawfareteam members Alan Rozenshtein, Tyler McBrien, and RatSec newbie Anastasiia "Nastya" Lapatina to talk through the week's national security headlines, including:“A Shot Across the Rubicon.” Reports indicate that President Biden and his U.K. allies may be on the verge of giving Ukraine approval to use their advanced weapons systems to strike deep into Russia, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat that doing so would be seen as an act of war. How risky a

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42:13

Lawfare Daily: ‘How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’ with...

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2024/09/19

On April 14, 2022, New York Times technology reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac woke up to a stunning four-word tweet from Elon Musk’s Twitter account: “I made an offer.” Having long covered the technology and social media beat, they read Musk’s terse post as the “unbelievable but inevitable culmination of two storylines we had pursued for a decade as journalists in Silicon Valley.”On today’s episode,LawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien spoke to Conger and Mac about the cloak-and-dagger corporate

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1:11:11

Chatter: UFO Culture, with Sarah Scoles

The Lawfare Podcast ·

2024/09/18

Science journalist Sarah Scoles has written extensively about astronomy and the UFO community, including in her 2021 bookThey Are Already Here. She joinedDavidPriess to discuss how scientists look at ETs, pop cultural takes on first contact with extraterrestrials,the incredible influence of Carl Sagan'sContact,the Allan Hills meteorite, the evolution over time of beliefs about aliens contacting humans, how the Roswell mythemerged, the International UFO Congress, the Mutual UFO Network, UFO

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41:39

Lawfare Daily: Jane Bambauer, Ramya Krishnan, and...

The Lawfare Podcast ·

2024/09/18

Jane Bambauer, Professor at Levin College of Law; Ramya Krishnan, Senior Staff Attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute and a lecturer in law at Columbia Law School; Alan Rozenshtein, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School and a Senior Editor at Lawfare, join Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to break down the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ hearing inTikTok v. Garland, in which a panel of

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1:00:29

Lawfare Daily: Digging Deep on the State of the...

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2024/09/17

For today’s episode,Lawfaresenior editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Joel Braunold, Managing Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace, for a deep dive on the current state of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in these last few weeks before what could bea pivotal U.S. election.They discussed the state of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, recent developments relating to al-Haram al-Sharif and the West Bank, the state of Israel’s external relations with

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46:02

Lawfare Daily: A Ukraine War Update with Anastasiia...

The Lawfare Podcast ·

2024/09/17

It's been a rough couple of weeks in Ukraine, as Russian forces have hit major cities with intense bombardments, killing an unusually large number of people. Moreover, the front in Donetsk continues to erode. On the other hand, Ukrainian forces are still in Kursk, occupying about 500 square miles of Russian territory, in an embarrassing show of forces to the Russians, and discussions continue with Western governments about relaxing restrictions on Ukrainian use of long-range missiles inside of

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50:29

Lawfare Daily: Gharun Lacy Talks State Department...

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2024/09/16

Gharun Lacy has an unusual job. He’s the head of cybersecurity at the State Department, responsible for securing computers and their users in every embassy and consulate and responsible for making sure senior diplomats can communicate securely even in the most forbidding overseas environments. In a wide-ranging conversation, he sat down with Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes to talk about the challenging work of the Diplomatic Security Service generally and its work in the cyber and technology security area

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46:48

Lawfare Archive: Deterring Russian Cyber Intrusions

The Lawfare Podcast ·

2024/09/15

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 away: calls continue in the Senate for an investigation into the Kremlin's meddling, and the security firm Crowdstrike recentlyreleasednew information linking one of the two entities responsible for the DNC hack with Russia's military intelligence agency. So how should the United States respond?InWar on the Rocks,Evan Perkoski and Michael

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