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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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1:13:27

Lawfare Daily: Ukraine Invades Russia

The Lawfare Podcast ·

2024/08/14

Over the past week, Ukrainian forces have launched a major incursion into Russia proper, occupying 1,000 square kilometers in Kursk Oblast, which borders Ukraine. The operation, which caught both Russia and the United States by surprise, is the first major Ukrainian offensive in more than a year. In this episode, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Lawfare's Ukraine Fellow Anastasiia Lapatina and Eric Ciaramella of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to discuss the

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1:33:38

Chatter: Reconceptualizing National Security with...

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2024/08/13

Gina Bennett had a remarkable intelligence career of more than three decades, focusing on counterterrorism even before the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 and continuing to apply that expertise long after 9/11. She has written a book about how national security and parenting lessons reinforce each other, taught students at Georgetown University, and mentored women entering national security careers.She joined David Priess to talk about her path into and through the intelligence community,

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1:06:41

Lawfare Daily: Rachel Maddow Talks McCarthy, Fascism,...

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2024/08/13

Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with MSNBC talk show host Rachel Maddow, creator of the newpodcastseries, Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra, Season II. They discuss the ideological aftermath of World War II on the American far right, the rise of Sen. Joe McCarthy, and the rhetorically incredible cast of characters around him. Why do we remember McCarthy merely as a fierce anticommunist demagogue and not as a neo-Nazi?To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter

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48:46

Lawfare Daily: Katie Moussouris on Bug Bounties

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2024/08/12

Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with Katie Moussouris of Luta Security to talk bug bounties. Where do they come from? What is their proper role in cybersecurity? What are they good for, and most importantly, what are theynotgood for? Moussouris was among the hackers who first did bug bounties at scale—for Microsoft, and then for the Pentagon. Now she helps companies set up bug bounty programs and is dismayed by how they are being used.To receive ad-free podcasts, become

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1:22:17

Lawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly...

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2024/08/11

This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on August 8 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 what Judge Chutkan has been up to in D.C., state-level prosecutions of fake electors, and took audience questions fromLawfarematerial supporters.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See

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42:51

Lawfare Archive: Polina Ivanova on Evan Gershkovich’s...

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2024/08/10

From April 24, 2023: Evan Gershkovich has been in Russian detention for the last several weeks. He is a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and he’s the latest American taken hostage by the Vladimir Putin regime. His good friend Polina Ivanova is a reporter for the Financial Times, a colleague of Evan’s in Russia, and has been an outspoken advocate for his release.She joinedLawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes from Berlin to talk about Evan: who he is, why he has been detained by the Russians,

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49:09

Lawfare Daily: Big Tech and Law Enforcement, with...

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2024/08/09

On today's episode, Lawfare's Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri speaks with Senior Privacy Engineer at Netflix and former Army Reserve intelligence officer, Lukas Bundonis. They talked about the relationship between law enforcement and tech companies, what that relationship looks like in the U.S. and other countries, and the different ways in which that communication can be politicized.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter atwww.patreon.com/lawfare. You can

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1:09:51

Rational Security: The “Exit, Pursued by a Bear Cub”...

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2024/08/08

This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes to talk through the week's very big national security news stories, including:“The Waiting Game.” The Middle East is on edge this week as it awaits a possible attack by Iran or Hezbollah on Israel in response to the suspected assassination of senior Hezbollah and Hamas leaders last week, including the chairman of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed while visiting Tehran for the swearing in of its

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35:43

Lawfare Daily: Gen. Baker on the 9/11 Guilty Pleas...

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2024/08/08

Last week, three defendants in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo agreed to plead guilty in the military commissions. Two days later, the Secretary of Defense pulled out of the agreements. What happened?Lawfare Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sat down with General John Baker, who served as the Chief Defense Counsel of the Guantanamo Military Commissions until 2021. They talked abouthow the 9/11 case got to plea agreements after more than a decade of litigation, why Secretary Austin scuttled them, and what

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31:25

Lawfare Daily: DOJ’s Arun Rao on Consumer Protection,...

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2024/08/07

On today's episode,Lawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sherman speaks with Arun G. Rao, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division's Consumer Protection Branch at the Department of Justice.They discuss DOJ’s consumer protection work, cyber crime and elder fraud, data privacy, and generative AI. You can find out more about Rao’s work at DOJ below:DOJ-Cerebral caseDOJ Elder Justice InitiativeNational Elder Fraud HotlineTo receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter

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1:18:01

Chatter: The Art of Political Lawyering with Bob Bauer

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2024/08/06

On this week’s show, Lawfare’s Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sits down with longtime Democratic lawyer Bob Bauer to discuss his mémoire of political lawyering, “The Unraveling Reflections on Politics Without Ethics and Democracy in Crisis.” Bauer, a longtime Lawfare contributing editor, discusses his career as a litigating street fighter on behalf of Democratic Party causes and some of the regrets he has about party lawyering in an era of rising polarization.Chatter is a production of Lawfare and

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53:41

Lawfare Daily: A New Documentary on Surviving the War...

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2024/08/06

A new film fromAl Jazeera’s Fault Lines series called “The Night Won’t End”profiles three Palestinian families as they try to survive the war in Gaza.On today’s episode,LawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien speaks to the documentary’s director, Kavitha Chekuru, along with a few of the journalists and researchers who came together to work on the project, including Emily Tripp, Director at Airwars; Samaneh Moafi, Assistant Director of Research at Forensic Architecture; and Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Founder

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33:36

Lawfare Daily: State Senator Scott Wiener on His...

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2024/08/05

Scott Wiener, California State Senator, joins Kevin Frazier, Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University College of Law and a Tarbell Fellow at Lawfare, to explore his “Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models” bill, also known as SB 1047. The bill has become a flashpoint in several larger AI debates: AI safety v. AI security, federal regulation or state regulation, model or end-user governance. Senator Wiener and Kevin analyze these topics and forthcoming hurdles to

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53:05

Lawfare Archive: Carol Leonnig on the United States...

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2024/08/04

From July 7, 2021: The United States Secret Service has many important missions, the most public of which is protecting the president of the United States. And in this mission, its motto is "Zero Fail." There is no window for them to let their guard down when it comes to protecting the commander-in-chief.And yet, the past several decades of the Secret Service's protection have seen gaps, mistakes and exposures of some fundamental problems within the Secret Service itself. Carol Leonnig is a Pulitzer

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1:12:28

Lawfare Daily: Trump Trials and Tribulations Weekly...

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2024/08/03

This episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” was recorded on August 1 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 Mark Meadows’ petition for a writ of certiorari in his attempt to remove his Fulton County election interference case to federal court, the briefing schedule in the government’s appeal of Judge Cannon’s order dismissing the classified

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45:01

Lawfare Daily: A Giant and Unexpected Prisoner Swap

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2024/08/02

On Thursday, Russia released 16 prisoners in exchange for eight prisoners held in Western countries, including the United States. The prisoners released by the Putin regime included several Americans, most notably Evan Gershkovich of the Wall Street Journal and two other journalists, and long-time prisoner Paul Whelan. Shane Harris of the Washington Post, who covered the story, and Lawfare's Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri, joined Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss

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1:10:14

Rational Security: The “Big Worm Energy” Edition

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2024/08/01

This week, Alan and Quinta were joined by Kevin Frazier to talk through some of the week’s biggest national security news, including:“KOSA Nostra.” An overwhelming majority of senators voted to pass the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA—a bipartisan piece of legislation that would impose new responsibilities on online platforms in looking after their underage users. Despite the 91-3 vote in the Senate, KOSA has faced strong opposition from a number of civil rights and internet freedom

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38:03

Lawfare Daily: Inside Ukraine’s Drone Campaign...

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2024/08/01

Anastasiia Lapatina is a Kyiv-based Ukraine Fellow at Lawfare. Marcel Plichta is a Fellow at the Centre for Global Law and Governance at the University of St. Andrews, and a former analyst at the U.S. Department of Defense who currently works as an instructor at the Grey Dynamics Intelligence School.For this episode, Lapatina sat down with Plichta to discuss Ukraine’s ongoing drone campaign against Russia, Ukraine’s choice of targets deep inside Russian territory, and the future of drone warfare

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57:18

Lawfare Daily: The End of U.S. Ambition in the Middle...

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2024/07/31

For this episode, Lawfare General Counsel and Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Steven Cook to discuss his new book, “The End of Ambition: America’s Past, Present, and Future in the Middle East.” Together, they examined the United States’ long history in the Middle East, how it successfully (and unsuccessfully) pursued its interests there, and what should come next after the failed transformations of the post-9/11 era.To receive ad-free

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1:20:15

Chatter: Confirmations for National Security...

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2024/07/30

At the start of every presidential administration, the nominees for more than 1,000 civilianpositions require Senateconfirmation. A large number of those are in the Department of Defense, with confirmation responsibility going to the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC). And whether it's a new administration or not, the committee processes dozens of civiliannominations for typical turnover reasons and thousands of military promotions as part of regular order.Arnold Punaro, author of the new bookIf

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