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The Lawfare Podcast

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

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1:28:40

Lawfare Daily: Ask Us Anything About 2025

The Lawfare Podcast ·

2026/01/02

Today'sLawfare DailyisLawfare'sannual "Ask Us Anything" mailbag episode whereLawfarecontributors answered listener-submitted questions.Scott R. Anderson, Natalie Orpett, Benjamin Wittes, Kevin Frazier, Eric Columbus, Loren Voss, Molly Roberts, Jakub Kraus, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff address questions on everything from presidential immunity to AI regulations to the domestic deployment of the military.Thank you for your questions. And as always, thank you for listening.To receive ad-free podcasts,

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54:20

Lawfare Archive: FISA 702 Passes the House

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2026/01/01

From April 16, 2024: Friday morning, the House of Representatives suddenly—after failing to do so earlier in the week—took up the reauthorization of FISA 702. They considered a bunch of amendments, one of which failed on a tie vote, and then proceeded to pass reauthorization of 702.Immediately after the votes,LawfareEditor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes spoke withLawfareSenior Editors Stephanie Pell and Molly Reynolds, andLawfareStudent Contributor Preston Marquis. They talked about how the center beat

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1:29:06

Lawfare Archive: Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine...

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2025/12/31

From April 4, 2023: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has tested the international legal order like never before. For many, the fact that a nuclear power and member of the U.N. Security Council would commit unveiled aggression against another state seemed like it might be the death knell of the international system as we know it.But last week, in the annual Breyer Lecture on International Law at the Brookings Institution, Oona Hathaway, the Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Professor of International Law at

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1:04:05

Rational Security: The “Inadequate Chicken Moved to...

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2025/12/30

For the podcast’s annual end-of-year episode, Scott sat down with co-host emeritus Benjamin Wittes, Senior Editor Anna Bower, and Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk over listener-submitted topics and object lessons, including:Which sphere of influence is Western Europe in today?What should we make of President Trump's lawsuit against BBC?After nearly a year of the Trump Administration, how do you view the record of Attorney General Merrick Garland?What does the military campaign against alleged

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52:50

Lawfare Daily: Tom Brzozowski on Domestic Terrorism...

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2025/12/30

Senior Editor Michael Feinberg and Tom Brzozowski, formerly of the Justice Department, sit down to talk over recent changes set in motion by the White House and Justice Department with respect to domestic terrorism investigations and prosecutions, and sound a warning from history at how these changes hearken back to pre-Church Committee practices.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial Supporter atwww.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also supportLawfareby making a one-time donation

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1:00:32

Lawfare Daily: The 2026 National Defense...

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2025/12/29

In this episode, Ariane Tabatabai, Scott R. Anderson, and Loren Voss discuss the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026. They take stock of how Congress is reasserting itself vis-a-vis the Trump administration on matters related to the national defense, as well as the NDAA’s key provisions.Relevant links:National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026United States Senate Committee on Armed Services Executive Summary of the 2026 NDAA“Senate passes defense bill that

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51:08

Lawfare Archive: Lidsky and Koningisor on First...

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2025/12/28

From March 6, 2024: Executive branch constraints and the posture of the media have shifted in significant ways over the past two decades. Lyrissa Lidsky and Christina Koningisor, law professors at the University of Florida and the University of California San Francisco, respectively, argue ina forthcoming law review articlethat these changes—including the erosion of certain post-Watergate reforms and the decline of local news—have created a First Amendment disequilibrium. They contend that the twin

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1:16:28

Lawfare Archive: Ask Us Anything About 2024

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2025/12/27

From January 2, 2025: You called in with your questions, andLawfarecontributors have answers! Benjamin Wittes, Kevin Frazier, Quinta Jurecic, Eugenia Lostri, Alan Rozenshtein, Scott R. Anderson, Natalie Orpett, Amelia Wilson, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff addressed questions on everything from presidential pardons to the risks of AI to the domestic deployment of the military.Thank you for your questions. And as always, thank you for listening.To receive ad-free podcasts, become aLawfareMaterial

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55:34

Lawfare Daily: The Year That Was: 2025

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2025/12/26

Every year,Lawfarepublishes a retrospective of the year that passed. Today, we’re pleased to bring you an audio debrief of that article, The Year That Was: 2025, which you can read in full on our website starting December 31.Lawfareis focused on producing timely, rigorous, and non-partisan analysis of “hard national security choices.” And this year, that work was—to use an expression as tired as we are—like drinking from a firehose. We did our best to keep up. We published more than 1,000 articles,

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57:46

Lawfare Archive: The National Security Law Podcast:...

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2025/12/25

From October 18, 2017: If you were unsure about whether your hosts are geeks, this episode will help settle the question. But before we get to what Professors Chesney and Vladeck think they know but don’t really, here’s the stuff they actually do know something about!First, the travel ban. Buckle up, there’s a new nationwide TRO, out of Hawaii, enjoining enforcement of most of Travel Ban 3.0.Second, a double-shot of the Nashiri military commissions case. The Supreme Court deniedcert., seemingly

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43:03

Lawfare Archive: ‘How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter’...

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2025/12/24

From September 19, 2024: 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

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53:17

Lawfare Daily: Civ-Mil Relations: Where Are We Now...

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2025/12/23

Loren Voss, Public Service Fellow atLawfare, sits down withKori Schake,senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and Carrie Lee,senior fellow with the German Marshall Fund's Strategic Democracy Initiatives. Theydiscuss how they assess a healthy civil-military relationship, the current state of civil-militaryaffairs, potential unlawful orders, and what we should watchgoing forward.Lee and Schake outline the frameworks they use to assess

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1:44:21

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump...

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2025/12/22

In a live conversation on YouTube,LawfareEditor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down withLawfareSenior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Eric Columbus andLawfarePublic Service Fellow Loren Voss to discuss the government’s failure to re-indict New York Attorney General Letitia James, a jury finding Judge Hannah Dugan guilty of obstructing immigration agents, a legal challenge to the White House ballroom construction, and more.You can find information onlegal challenges to Trump administration

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43:15

Lawfare Archive: Why Pakistan is Deporting Afghan...

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2025/12/21

From November 20, 2023: Over the past few weeks, the country of Pakistan has pursued an aggressive wave of deportations targeting thousands of Afghan refugees, some of whom have been in Pakistan for generations. Many fear that this move will add to the already precarious and humanitarian situation facing Afghanistan. But the Taliban regime, for one, has reacted in a way few expected.To talk through these refugee removals and their ramifications,LawfareSenior Editor Scott R. Anderson sat down with

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44:45

Lawfare Archive: Memorializing Babyn Yar after the...

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2025/12/20

From July 1, 2022: When a Russian missile recently struck a TV tower in Kyiv, near Babyn Yar, the site of Nazi mass murders during the Holocaust, some saw the attack as a potent symbol of the tragic occurrence of violence in Ukraine. To talk through the historical significance of the attack, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sat down with Maksym Rokmaniko, an architect, designer, entrepreneur, and director at the Center for Spatial Technologies in Kyiv, and Linda Kinstler, a PhD candidate in the

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45:44

Lawfare Daily: ‘Deportation, Inc.’ and the Rise of...

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2025/12/19

LawfareManaging Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with SITU’s Deputy Director of Research Gauri Bahuguna, Detention Watch Network’s Advocacy Director Setareh Ghandehari, the American Immigration Council’s Policy Director Nayna Gupta, and Just Futures Law’s Executive Director Paromita Shah to discuss the rise of the immigration enforcement economy following the recent release of“Deportation, Inc.” a new video series from SITU andLawfare.They talk about why the government outsources the critical

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48:59

Lawfare Daily: Trump Admin Attacks on Inspectors...

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2025/12/18

Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Cristin Dorgelo, a former senior adviser for management at the Office of Management and Budget, and Rob Storch, who served as the inspector general of the Defense Department until the Trump administration fired him and many of his colleagues in January of this year. They discuss those firings, other Trump administration attacks on the offices of the inspector general, and various attempts by the administration to undermine oversight and evade

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1:22:27

Rational Security: The “Chestbursters Roasting on an...

The Lawfare Podcast ·

2025/12/17

This week, Scott down with his Lawfare colleagues Alan Rozenshtein and Ari Tabatabai to talk through a few of the week’s big national security news stories, including:“Once You Pop, You Can’t Stop.” The Trump administration has given a green light to Nvidia to export its powerful H200 chips to China, opening a potentially significant new market while jumpstarting China’s strategically significant AI industry—or, perhaps, making it reliant on U.S. technology. What explains this decision? And how does

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42:41

Lawfare Daily: Scott Anderson on How Social Media...

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2025/12/17

Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein speaks with Scott Anderson, Senior Editor at Lawfare, fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and non-resident senior fellow in the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School, who recently wrote a report about how social media platforms should handle unrecognized regimes like the Taliban. They discuss how social media platforms responded to the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan in 2021; the divergent approaches of Meta, YouTube, and

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38:31

Lawfare Daily: Ukraine’s Asymmetric Blueprint in the...

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2025/12/16

At the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia held clear naval superiority in the Black Sea. Over the course of the war, Ukraine has developed an asymmetric maritime strategy using unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), achieving strategic effects against a superior naval force.Ukraine has largely shifted from importing complete drone systems to assembling them domestically using foreign components, with China remaining a key supplier of many critical parts. What is more, Ukraine is now

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