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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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1:08:04

Rational Security: The “Prison Rules” Edition

The Lawfare Podcast ·

2024/08/29

This week, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler "Spicy Tyler" McBrien to talk through the week's big national security news stories, including:“Jack Smith Takes a Mulligan on his Big Swing.” A grand jury has re-indicted former President Trump for his actions relating to the Jan. 6 insurrection, after Special Counsel Jack Smith trimmed and massaged the allegations to accommodate the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity. How different is this indictment? What

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54:14

Lawfare Daily: Trump’s Trials and Tribulations, Trump...

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2024/08/29

Thisepisodeof “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on August 28 in front of a live audience onYouTubeand Zoom.LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke toLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower, Quinta Jurecic, and Roger Parloff about Special Counsel Jack Smith’s superseding indictment against former President Trump in the Jan. 6 prosecution, how it differs from the original indictment, and more.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter atwww.patreon.com/lawfare. You can

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38:06

Lawfare Daily: The Wagner Group, One Year After...

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2024/08/28

On today’s episode, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Director of the Initiative on Nonstate Armed Actors, Co-Director of the Africa Security Initiative, and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution joinsLawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien to help make sense of the recent skirmishes in northern Mali between the junta, separatist groups, Islamists, and Russian mercenaries.They discuss what the recent ambush in Mali portends for Russian and Russian-aligned mercenaries' activities in Africa and

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1:25:47

Chatter: What Putin Wants, with Peter Clement

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2024/08/27

For more than 40 years, PeterClementhas studied Russian politicalculture and leaders--serving for most of that time as an analyst,manager, and executive at the CIA before his retirementin 2018. He has PhD in Russian history, teachesat ColumbiaUniversity, and has thought long and hard about what makes Vladimir Putin tick.He joined David Priess to discuss his road to studying Russia as a career, the art of Kremlinology, Putin's rise, Putin's feelings about Ukraine across the decades,the images of

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54:02

Lawfare Daily: ‘Threat Multiplier,’ Climate, and the...

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2024/08/27

On today’s episode, Sherri Goodman, the Secretary General of the International Military Council on Climate & Security and the first Deputy Undersecretary of Defense (Environmental Security) joinsLawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien to talk about Sherri’s new book,“Threat Multiplier: Climate, Military Leadership, and the Fight for Global Security.”They discuss Sherri’s career in climate security, beginning at the Senate Armed Services Committee before “climate security” entered the lexicon. From

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37:27

Lawfare Daily: How Internet Infrastructure Affects...

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2024/08/26

LawfareFellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri sits down with Esteban Carisimo, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University to talk about the digital repression in Venezuela after the recent elections. Carisimo co-authored a recentreporton the effects of the Venezuelan crisis on internet infrastructure. They discuss how internet censorship impacts the protests, how Venezuela's infrastructure compares to other countries in the region, and what the path to recovery looks like.To

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54:12

Lawfare Archive: Eugene Volokh on AI Libel

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2024/08/25

From April 26, 2023: If someone lies about you, you can usually sue them for defamation. But what if that someone is ChatGPT? Already in Australia, the mayor of a town outside Melbourne hasthreatened to sueOpenAI because ChatGPT falsely named him a guilty party in a bribery scandal. Could that happen in America? Does our libel law allow that? What does it even mean for a large language model to act with "malice"? Does the First Amendment put any limits on the ability to hold these models, and the

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51:27

Lawfare Archive: The Biden Administration's Grand...

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2024/08/24

From November 1, 2022: In recent weeks, the Biden administration has released a trio of long-awaited strategy documents, including theNational Security Strategy, theNational Defense Strategy, and theNuclear Posture Review.But how should we read these documents, and what do they actually tell us about how the Biden administration intends to approach the world?To answer these questions,Lawfaresenior editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Richard Fontaine, chief executive officer of the Center for a

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45:55

Lawfare Daily: Richard Albert on Constitutional...

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2024/08/23

Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor of Government, and Director of Constitutional Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to conduct a comparative analysis of what helps constitutions withstand political pressures. Richard’s extensive study of different means to amend constitutions shapes their conversation about whether the U.S. Constitution has

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1:11:44

Rational Security: The “Make Daguerreotypes Great...

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2024/08/22

This week, Alan and Quinta sat down with Molly Reynolds and Kevin Frazier to talk about the week’s big developments, including:“It can always get worse…” Although President Biden’s replacement by Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the Democratic ticket has reenergized the Democrats’ bid to retain the White House, the race is still a tossup, and former President Trump could well reenter the White House in 2025. Have we successfully “Trump-proofed” the government in anticipation?“Run DNC.” The

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25:07

Lawfare Daily: A Conversation with an Exiled...

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2024/08/22

Anastasiia Lapatina is a Kyiv-based Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare. Leopoldo Lopez is a Venezuelan opposition leader living in exile in Madrid, after escaping prison for leading protests against Nicolás Maduro in 2014.Lapatina and Lopez discuss the results of Venezuela’s recent presidential election, ties between Venezuela’s autocrat Nicolás Maduro and other dictatorships, and the path forward for Venezuela after the rigged election.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter

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36:05

Lawfare Daily: Shoba Pillay and Jennifer Lee on the...

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2024/08/21

The fallout from the SolarWinds intrusion took a new turn with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) decision to file a cybersecurity-related enforcement action against the SolarWinds corporation and its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Timothy G. Brown, in October of 2023. But In July, District Court Judge Paul A. Engelmayer dismissed a number of charges in the SEC’s complaint against SolarWinds and Brown.To talk about this significant development in the case, Stephanie

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1:04:28

Chatter: Gaming Out an Insurrection with Jesse Moss

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2024/08/20

It’s January 6, 2025. Congress has convened to certify electoral votes in the presidential election. But members of the U.S. military are in revolt, throwing their support behind the losing candidate. The legitimate president huddles in the Situation Room with his top advisers and Cabinet. They have six hours to prevent violent protests from exploding into civil war.That’s the dire scenario imagined in the new documentary “War Game.” Real-world experts--including former elected officials and retired

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41:19

Lawfare Daily: The New Outbound Investment Regime...

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2024/08/20

For today’s episode,LawfareSenior Editor Scott R. Anderson andLawfareContributing Editor Brandon Van Grack sat down with Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Investment Security Paul Rosen to talk through the groundbreaking new national security-related outbound investment regulations his office is preparing at the direction of President Biden. Together, they discussed what concerns motivated the new regulations’ focus on China and emerging technologies, what exactly they restrict, and how U.S

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52:40

Lawfare Daily: Eugenia Lostri and Justin Sherman on...

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2024/08/19

As part ofLawfare’sSecurity by Design Project, Eugenia Lostri,Lawfare’sFellow in Technology Policy and Law, and Justin Sherman, CEO of Global Cyber Strategies, published a new paper, “Security by Design in Practice: Assessing Concepts, Definitions and Approaches.”LawfareSenior Editor Stephanie Pell talked with Eugenia and Justin about the paper’s exploration of the meaning of security by design, scalability solutions and processes for implementing security by design principles across an

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59:12

Lawfare Archive: What Ukraine Tells Us About the...

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2024/08/18

From August 2, 2023: Over the past eighteen months, Ukraine has served as the stage for a proxy battle between superpowers, with the invading Russians on one side and a U.S.-led coalition of Western allies backing Ukraine on the other. As such, it’s the closest thing we’ve yet seen to what many military strategists believe will be the defining challenge of the next strategic era: a near-peer conflict between two or more technologically sophisticated major powers. In this way, the conflict has served

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1:27:17

Lawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly...

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2024/08/17

This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on August 15 in front of a live audience onYouTubeand Zoom.LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke toLawfareLegal Correspondent and Legal Fellow Anna Bower andLawfareSenior Editor Roger Parloff about Judge Chutkan’s order granting Jack Smith’s motion for an extension of time, briefs filed in Trump’s appeal to disqualify DA Fani Willis from the Fulton County case, and took audience questions fromLawfarematerial supporters.Support

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58:44

Lawfare Daily: The Fallout from the French Elections

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2024/08/16

French politics has had quite a summer. In early June, the French far-right made substantial gains in the European Union Parliament. The same day the results came down, French President Emmanuel Macron called snap elections, saying that the rise of nationalists and demagogues was a danger to France and Europe. It was a shocking and risky move. In the first round of elections, the far-right came in first, but after the second round, they were in third. Much of the media moved on after reporting on

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1:08:41

Rational Security: The “Minnesota Nice” Edition

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2024/08/15

This week, the whole gang—Alan, Quinta, and Scott—got back together to discuss the week's big national security news, including:“In Post-Soviet Russia, Ukraine Invade You!” In an ironic reversal, Ukraine invaded Russia this past week, seizing substantial portions of the oblast of Kursk and surprising both Russian forces and Ukrainian allies in what appears to be its most successful military venture in more than a year. Why did Ukraine take this step? What will it mean in the longer arc of this

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38:02

Lawfare Daily: Chris Hoofnagle on the Theory,...

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2024/08/15

Chris Hoofnagle, Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King’s College and Professor of Law in Residence at the UC Berkeley School of Law, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, and Eugenia Lostri, Lawfare's Fellow in Technology Policy and Law, to discuss ALL things cybersecurity—its theory, history, and future. Much of their conversation turns on themes expressed in Hoofnagle’s textbook,“Cybersecurity in Context,” that he

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