Best Dan Epps Podcasts (2023)

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Graham Allison on Henry Kissinger 51:29

17m ago51:29

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Last week, former Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger passed away. To assess his legacy, Jack Goldsmith sat down with Graham Allison, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard University. Allison knew Kissinger well. He first met Kissinger in 1965 when he was a student in Kissinger's class at Harvard. And Al…

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Chatter: World War I and Intelligence in American Memory, with Mark Stout 1:26:58

18m ago1:26:58

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World War I was a seminal event for American national security and foreign policy, as the United States deployed nearly two million soldiers and sailors to Europe and engaged in the most intense overseas combat in its history up to that point. Yet the development of modern American intelligence just before and during the war, and even the magnitude…

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Preparing for War with Bradley Onishi 55:53

18m ago55:53

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Watching the footage of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, Bradley Onishi thought to himself, “If I hadn’t left evangelicalism, would I have been there?” In his book entitled, “Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism and What Comes Next,” Onishi offers a sobering historical account of the …

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Bill Wright on the AI Executive Order 35:40

18m ago35:40

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A little over a month ago, President Biden issued a sweeping executive order on artificial intelligence (AI) covering a broad set of AI issues, such as privacy, transparency, the development of biological weapons, and many more. The order hands out expansive directives to several U.S. government agencies and private industry, which the Biden admini…

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Two Courts Rule on Presidential Immunity 56:00

21m ago56:00

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On Friday, two courts weighed in on the question of presidential immunity. First, Judge Chutkan of the DC District Court ruled that Trump is not immune from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s criminal prosecution for his conduct on Jan. 6. In the second, the DC Circuit Court ruled that Trump is not immune from a civil suit brought by members of Congress …

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Matthew Tokson on Government Purchases of Private Data 33:53

3d ago33:53

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Is the Fourth Amendment doing any work anymore? In a forthcoming article entitled “Government Purchases of Private Data,” Matthew Tokson, a professor at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, details how, in recent years, federal and state agencies have begun to purchase location information and other consumer data, as government attor…

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Rational Security: The “We’re Moving to Microsoft” Edition 1:11:53

8h ago1:11:53

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This week on Rational Security, a contentedly full post-Thanksgiving Scott and Quinta sat down with two Lawfare colleagues—Senior Editor and Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds and Cyber Fellow Eugenia Lostri—to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including: “Showdown with an Only O.K. Rationale.” The House an…

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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Gag Orders, Telephones, and Other Stuff 1:24:31

4d ago1:24:31

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It's another edition of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on Thursday before a live audience of Lawfare Material Supporters. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff, Lawfare Legal Fellow Anna Bower, and special guest Kyle Cheney of Politico, to talk about Scott Perry's text messages that w…

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Lawfare Archive: Jim Baker on AI and Counterintelligence 46:52

5d ago46:52

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From September 25, 2018: The United States has become the global leader in both defense and private-sector AI. Inevitably, this has led to an environment in which adversary and ally governments alike may seek to identify and steal AI information—in other words, AI has become intelligence, and those who work in AI have become potential sources and a…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Anna Bower Critiques the Georgia Bureau of Investigation 47:43

6m ago47:43

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Anna Bower is a Legal Fellow at Lawfare and our Fulton County Correspondent, and has been digging into the weird events in Coffee County in the aftermath of the 2020 election. Her latest tome on the subject is entitled “What the GBI Missed in Coffee County,” and is about the Georgia state investigation, the report on which clocks in at almost 400 p…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Chatter: Coups and Counterintelligence with Peter Strzok 1:19:51

6d ago1:19:51

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Peter Strzok is a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agent. He was the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division and led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. He speaks with Ben Wittes about the numerous places he has called home and a career spent in counterinte…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Comparing Civilian Casualty Tolerance in the Israel-Hamas War to the War Against ISIS with Mark Lattimer 40:57

7d ago40:57

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Israel’s military response to Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre has raised deep concern from international legal observers and the general public. The IDF’s tactics have been described as “disproportionate,” and not taking sufficient care to avoid killing civilians or damaging civilian infrastructure, as the law of armed conflict requires. When it comes to i…

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Curious About Screenwriting Network

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Amanda & Lita Lopez, Underdogs Excelling as Screenwriting Sisters 35:15

8d ago35:15

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Screenwriting SISTERS, Lita and Amanda Lopez, created an amazing drama pilot for a series titled "The Work" that won the Table Read My Screenplay competition in 2022 based on Amanda's social work career.

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Will Generative AI Reshape Elections? 49:03

3h ago49:03

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard a great deal over the last year about generative AI and how it’s going to reshape various aspects of our society. That includes elections. With one year until the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we thought it would be a good time to step back and take a look at how generative AI might a…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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U.S. Arms Transfers to Israel, with Brian Finucane and Josh Paul 49:53

1d ago49:53

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Last month, following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, President Biden announced that his administration would ask Congress for “an unprecedented support package for Israel’s defense,” totaling $14.3 billion. Such a package would supplement the defense aid Israel already receives from the U.S. According to Jonathan Guyer in Vox, “Israel has receive…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Tiana Epps-Johnson on Lawsuits and the Big Lie 51:20

2d ago51:20

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Tiana Epps-Johnson is the Executive Director of the Center for Tech and Civic Life, an organization which provides technical and financial assistance to election workers nationwide. If this sounds like it should be uncontroversial, hang on to your hats, folks. It is anything but. After her work in 2020 to help election workers conduct the president…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Lawfare Archive: Building a Bridge Between 20th Century Law and 21st Century Intelligence 1:08:48

3d ago1:08:48

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From November 7, 2015: Last week, George Washington University and the CIA co-hosted an event entitled Ethos and Profession of Intelligence. As part of the conference, Kenneth Wainstein moderated a conversation between CIA General Counsel Caroline Krass, Orin Kerr, and Benjamin Wittes on Bridging 20th Century Law and 21st Century Intelligence, a pa…

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Lawfare Archive: The Jerusalem Embassy Opening and Protests in Gaza 52:12

4d ago52:12

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From May 19, 2018: The past week saw the culmination of a major shift in U.S. policy as the United States formally opened its embassy in Jerusalem. Yet ongoing protests along the border with the Gaza Strip and the Israeli government’s harsh response have provided a sharp contrast to the hopeful rhetoric surrounding the embassy’s opening ceremony. O…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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What Disqualifying Trump From the 2024 Ballot Would Mean for Election Law 1:17:05

5d ago1:17:05

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In the past few weeks, there have been several notable developments in lawsuits seeking to disqualify Donald Trump from the 2024 election under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The Minnesota Supreme Court dismissed a case against Trump but invited the petitioners to refile once Trump won the GOP nomination. A court in Michigan rejected a challenge …

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Lawfare Archive: Samuel Moyn on “How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End" 49:26

6d ago49:26

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From October 22, 2016: This week, Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Harvard University, closed out a one-day conference on “The Next President's Fight Against Terror” at New America with a talk on “How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End.” He argues that we’ve moved toward a focus on ending war crimes and similar abuses, ra…

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Chatter: The JFK Assassination and Conspiracy Culture, with Gerald Posner 1:39:01

7d ago1:39:01

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Sixty years ago today in Dallas, Texas, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John Kennedy. For almost as long, various (often contradictory) conspiracy theories about that day have been circulating. Gerald Posner used overwhelming evidence and logic to dismantle these theories in his classic book Case Closed, first published in 1993 and re-i…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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The Pigeon Tunnel: Errol Morris Interviews John le Carré 53:56

7d ago53:56

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The great documentary filmmaker Errol Morris is best known for films such as “The Thin Blue Line” and “The Fog of War.” His latest film, “The Pigeon Tunnel,” is about the great espionage novelist John le Carré, whose real name is David Cornwell. Jack Goldsmith recently sat down with Morris to talk about “The Pigeon Tunnel.” They discussed le Carré’…

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Curious About Screenwriting Network

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Caitlin Gallo & Brittany Harris: Don't be Afraid to Stand Out, Be Uniquely You 51:31

8d ago51:31

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You will quickly see how Caitlin and Brittany are writing partners as they practically finish each other’s sentences. These two are high energy, fiercely hard working and driven writers who are part of our ISA Top 25 Writers to Watch in 2023.By Shayna Weber

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Brooks, Wohlforth, and Keohane on the Strength of the United States in International Politics 52:03

16d ago52:03

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At the end of the Cold War, there was no question that the United States was the most powerful country in the world—militarily, economically, and technologically. International relations scholars call this system, where one country is more powerful than all others, a unipolar one. But most analysts now argue that America’s decline over the last two…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Why Pakistan is Deporting Afghan Refugees with Madiha Afzal 42:07

9d ago42:07

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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 f…

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Rational Security: The “Talking Turkey” Edition 1:03:23

18d ago1:03:23

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This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were jointed by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk over some of the week's big national security news, including: “The Day After.” As the war in Gaza enters a new phase, discussions are increasingly shifting to focus on how Israel will handle a post-Hamas Gaza Strip—and what long-term impa…

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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: What Is Judge Cannon up to Now? 1:21:57

11d ago1:21:57

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It's another episode of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” the last one before Thanksgiving, when we will take a week off. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down before a live audience of Lawfare Material Supporters with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff and Legal Fellow Anna Bower. They talked about the latest developments in Mar-a-Lag…

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Lawfare Archive: Turnover and Turmoil Inside the State Department 1:04:22

17d ago1:04:22

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From September 7, 2019: This summer has been a tumultuous one inside the U.S. State Department. In August, the department’s Office of the Inspector General handed down a scathing report alleging political manipulation and abusive practices inside the department’s International Organization bureau—only one of a series of similar allegations. At the …

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Assistant Secretary Matt Axelrod on Enforcing Export Controls 46:45

19d ago46:45

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The United States has long set restrictions on the export of certain sensitive goods and technologies, particularly to strategic rivals. But over the past several years, we have seen first the Trump and now the Biden administrations use the legal authorities behind these export controls in new and innovative ways, for purposes ranging from limiting…

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Chatter: The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop with Martine Powers 1:04:16

21d ago1:04:16

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In October 1983, Maurice Bishop, the revolutionary leader and prime minister of Grenada, was executed alongside seven others amid a power struggle in the island nation. Ever since, a mystery has persisted: What happened to their bodies? The whereabouts of Bishop’s remains is unknown, and for the past two years, Washington Post journalists have been…

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Divided Argument

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Easy Win 1:12:41

19d ago1:12:41

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We discuss the Court's new Code of Conduct, catch up on shadow docket happenings, and debate what historians can teach originalists. We then recap the argument United States v. Rahimi, the Term's big Second Amendment case). Finally, we stay on brand by circling back to Pulsifer v. United States from the October sitting, where the Justices puzzled o…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Data Brokers and the Sale of Data on U.S. Military Personnel 48:22

13d ago48:22

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On November 6, researchers at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy issued a report on “Data Brokers and the Sale of Data on U.S. Military Personnel” that illuminates the national security risks arising from the sale of these data. Lawfare Senior Editor Stephanie Pell sat down with the three of the report’s authors: Justin Sherman, a Se…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Deepfakes and Human Subjects Protection with Aimee Nishimura 29:37

20d ago29:37

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The use of deepfakes—a form of artificial intelligence known as deep learning to create manipulated or generated images, video, and audio—is on the rise. In 2022, the U.S. military took a nearly unprecedented step by declaring its interest in deepfake technology for offensive purposes. But the Defense Department’s exploration of this technology pos…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Ryan J. Reilly on the Sedition Hunters 50:10

23d ago50:10

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Three weeks ago, an amazing new book came out about the prosecutions stemming from the Capitol Siege of Jan. 6, 2021. It’s called "Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System." Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff sat down with the book’s author, Ryan J. Reilly, who is also the Justice Reporter at NBC News. They discussed who the Sedi…

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Anatomy of a Somali Drone Strike with Nick Turse 37:05

22d ago37:05

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In August, the U.S. Africa Command, aka AFRICOM, reported that it had killed 13 al-Shabaab fighters in southern Somalia. Though the U.S. government said that it did not kill any civilians this time around, several past airstrikes have claimed innocent lives. In one notable example from March 2018, U.S. drone operators killed a 22-year-old mother, L…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Rational Security: The ”Alan Revoir” Edition 58:37

23d ago58:37

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This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott bade a temporary farewell to Alan and spent one last afternoon (for a few months, anyway) digging into the week’s big national security news stories, including: “Ceasefire or Misfire?” We are now one month into Israel’s military campaign in the Gaza Strip. As civilian casualties continue to mount and…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Trump Ungagged 1:12:44

24d ago1:12:44

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It's another edition of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on Nov. 9 before a live audience of Lawfare Material Supporters. To talk through this week of Trump’s trials, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with special guest Adam Klasfeld of The Messenger, Lawfare Legal Fellow Anna Bower, and Lawfare Senior Editors Quinta Jurec…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Lawfare Archive: Luke Murry and Daniel Silverberg on National Security in Congress 43:46

24d ago43:46

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From March 2, 2019: It's hard to open a newspaper or turn on the television without hearing about the dysfunction and partisan polarization affecting members of Congress. But what about their staffs, and what does that mean for national security? This week, Margaret Taylor sat down with seemingly unlikely partners: Luke Murry, National Security Adv…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Lawfare Archive: Jack Goldsmith on Obama's War Powers Legacy 34:53

25d ago34:53

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From November 8, 2014: Last month, Jack gave a talk at the Hoover Institution on President Obama's war powers legacy. It's a remarkable address: hard-hitting, clear, and sure to discomfort Obama's defenders on war powers issues. In essence, Jack argues that Obama has gone way beyond President Bush in the aggressiveness of his approach vis a vis Con…

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Chatter: Rachel Maddow on her book "Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism" 1:11:07

22d ago1:11:07

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When she's not hosting The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow has been diving deep into the history of fascism in America. First on her podcast, Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra, and most recently in her new book, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism, she has unearthed the stories for popular audiences both of an earlier era of foreign a…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Fionnuala Ní Aoláin on Counterterrorism and Human Rights 54:00

29d ago54:00

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Fionnuala Ní Aoláin completed a productive six-year tenure as the UN Special Rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights last week. Among other issues, she examined how financing counterterrorism and new technologies used for counterterrorism affect human rights. She also analyzed the protection of human rights in several locations with differe…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Mike Johnson’s National Security Agenda 48:56

28d ago48:56

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You probably already know that Rep. Mike Johnson is the new Speaker of the House. What you may not know is that every single one of the issues on his plate is a national security issue, at least in the short term. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor and Brookings Senior Fellow Molly Reynolds to talk it all th…

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Data Brokers, Public Records, and Violence with Justin Sherman 45:47

30d ago45:47

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In the debate about data privacy and harms, one issue has not received adequate attention by the press or in policy conversations relative to the severity and volume of harm: the link between publicly available information and stalking and gendered violence. To discuss how “people search” data brokers use public information and contribute to stalki…

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Rational Security: The “Regulatory Cage Match” Edition 1:01:52

24d ago1:01:52

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This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by Lawfare Fellow in Technology Policy and Law Eugenia Lostri to tackle some of the overlooked national security stories that have been percolating the past few weeks, including: “BrokenAI?” The Biden administration has rolled out a groundbreaking new Executive Order on Artificial …

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The Lawfare Podcast

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Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Judge Cannon, Section 3, and a Fulton County Update 1:20:25

25d ago1:20:25

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It's another episode of “Trump's Trials and Tribulations,” recorded live on Zoom before an audience of Lawfare Material Supporters. Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff, Lawfare Legal Fellow Anna Bower, and Josh Gerstein of Politico to talk about Wednesday’s hearing in the Mar-a-Lago case, Sectio…

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Lawfare Archive: Stephanie Leutert on the Other Southern Border 45:59

25d ago45:59

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From June 26, 2018: With the media and political commentators focused on family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, few are paying attention to how developments along Mexico's southern border affect the United States. On Monday, Benjamin Wittes spoke with Stephanie Leutert, director of the Mexico Security Initiative at The University of Texas at …

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The Lawfare Podcast

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The West Bank and the Israel-Hamas War 55:09

26d ago55:09

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Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7, the Israel-Hamas war has largely been fought in Gaza, a small strip of land along the border of the Mediterranean Sea. But farther inland, there has been an uptick in hostilities between Israelis and Palestinians in the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem says …

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Chatter: The British Empire's Territorial Peak, 100 Years Later, with Matthew Parker 1:07:09

27d ago1:07:09

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The British Empire was already buckling under its own internal tensions in the 1920s. One hundred years later, historian and author Matthew Parker uses stories from across the globe to fill his new book One Fine Day, centered on the territorial peak of the empire on September 29, 1923. It reveals much about the limits of empire, the effects of libe…

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A Criminal in the White House: How It Might Work and What It Might Mean 1:02:16

27d ago1:02:16

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A few weeks ago, an organization that works in the democracy protection space asked Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes and Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson to give a talk about what would happen if Donald Trump both got convicted and got elected. And for this episode of the Lawfare Podcast, we’ve reprised that conversation, with an acco…

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Curious About Screenwriting Network

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FSS 44: Rita Mae Moore, Haunted Lake Geneva & the curious ghosts at Baker House 1:06:44

28d ago1:06:44

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Haunted history tour guide, Rita Mae Moore, grew up with a ghost hunting mom before working in the police force and having some paranormal experiences there. Today, she's a tour guide & two-time author of a fantasy book series.By Max Timm & Scott Markus

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