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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.
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- Today44 min
Lawfare Archive: Spy Writing in the Real World
From April 21, 2021: Last week for the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government, David Priess moderated a virtual event called, "Spy Writing in the Real World." The event featured three authors of espionage fiction, two with previous experience working inside the U.S. intelligence community: Brad Thor, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 21 thrillers; Karen Cleveland, a former CIA analyst and New York Times bestselling author of "Need to Know" and "Keep You Close"; and award-winning author and former NSA and CIA officer Alma Katsu, who had written five novels prior to her first new spy novel, "Red Widow." They talked about the spy thriller genre, their challenges within it, their research and their experience with prepublication classification review.To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/lawfare-institute. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Yesterday47 min
Lawfare Archive: Keith Whittington on the Law, Politics, and Purpose of the Impeachment Power
From November 12, 2024: Jack Goldsmith sits down with Keith Whittington, David Boies Professor of Law at Yale Law School, to discuss his new book, “The Impeachment Power: The Law, Politics, and Purpose of an Extraordinary Constitutional Tool.”They discuss what the Constitution says about the impeachment power, how we should think about high crimes and misdemeanors, why impeachment shows that Congress is the preeminent branch of government, and the goals and values of impeachment. They also discuss the abuse of the impeachment power given current politics and what can be done about it, as well as whether Trump should have been convicted and disqualified in the second impeachment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 days ago1h 25m
Rational Security: The “Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue” Edition
This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Benjamin Wittes, Roger Parloff, and Julia Curlee to talk through the week’s big national security news stories, including: “Two Huangs Don’t Make a Right.” This past weekend, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang admitted to an extramarital affair with Alice Huang, a former executive at a Singapore-based Nvidia customer whom U.S. intelligence has reportedly concluded was working for China’s Ministry of State Security—and whose company has been scrutinized for allegedly funneling Nvidia chips to China in violation of U.S. export controls. Nvidia’s board has launched an independent investigation, the FBI is reportedly looking into the matter, and incoming Democratic majorities are promising congressional inquiries. But the scandal is also raising hard questions for the White House, as reporting now indicates that President Trump was warned about the relationship before personally inviting Huang along on his May trip to Beijing—all while Huang was pressing the administration to loosen restrictions on chip sales to China. What does this mean for Nvidia, for U.S. export control policies, and for the AI industry that Nvidia’s chips play an indispensable part in? “Massie Destruction.” This week, lame-duck Republican Rep. Thomas Massie forced the House forced a vote on eight articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of waging an unlawful war in Iran, pursuing extrajudicial killings through the administration’s ongoing boat strikes, and “kidnapping” Nicolás Maduro, among other charges. House Republicans rallied to successfully kill the measure through a procedural vote on Tuesday evening, but both Massie and House Democrats have suggested this might not be the last we see of this effort. Is impeachment the right tool for holding Hegseth—and the administration—accountable? And what does this effort foreshadow for the next Congress?“Arch Nemesis.” Last Thursday, the National Capital Planning Commission—chaired by a White House official and stacked with Trump appointees—voted 8-4 to give final approval to President Trump’s 250-foot “triumphal arch,” which is to be located between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery and has been framed as an object central to the military defense of Washington, D.C. But barely an hour later, Judge Tanya Chutkan issued a temporary restraining order blocking construction, finding that D.C. and Virginia—who have both sued to stop the project—are likely to succeed in arguing that it requires congressional authorization under the Commemorative Works Act. Will Trump’s monument to American greatness—or, by his own account, to himself—ever get built? And what does this fight tell us about the limits on the president’s ability to remake the nation’s capital?In object lessons, Julia pulls out an old lesson on the psychology of military incompetence. Roger takes a stroll through the history of Foggy Bottom. Scott calls out an instant children’s classic that really gets kids cooking. And Ben regrets how he answered the conundrum of whether to walk to Lichtenstein. Plus, stay tuned for a bonus object lesson from producer Noam! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 2 days ago1h 7m
Lawfare Daily: Aya Ibrahim on Progressive Priorities for the New Democratic Congress
Aya Ibrahim is a rising progressive thought leader and advocate in Democratic national security and economic circles. Aya is currently a Senior Fellow at the AI Now Institute, where she focuses on AI's impacts on national security. She previously worked in government on Capitol Hill, where she served as Rep. Ayanna Pressley's (D-Mass.) senior economic adviser, and in the Executive Branch. In the Biden Administration, Aya served on the National Economic Council, at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where she was the lead author of the Administration's "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights," and on the State Department's Policy Planning Staff. Aya joins Lawfare Contributing Editor and host of the Security Economics podcast Peter Harrell to talk about a progressive agenda for the next Congress, about AI regulation, and about U.S.-China policy. Aya and Peter also look back at things that the Biden Administration got right—and wrong—about U.S.-China competition, and they close by talking about how to balance security economics with the domestic economy. This episode is part of the Security Economics podcast series, in which Peter Harrell and guests explore the intersection of economics and national security, how countries manage their economies to support national security, and how they deploy economic tools in support of geopolitical objectives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 3 days ago46 min
Lawfare Daily: ‘The Russian General Staff’ with Oscar Jonsson
Oscar Jonsson, author of the new book “The Russian General Staff,” and an associate senior lecturer at Swedish Defence University, joins Lawfare Contributing Editor Justin Sherman to discuss the origins and evolution of the Russian General Staff, its role in the early Putin system amid reforms and power consolidation, and the General Staff’s role (or lack thereof) in Russia’s initial invasion of Ukraine in 2014. They also discuss the General Staff’s nominal command of Russia’s military intelligence agency, the GRU; Russia’s full-scale 2022 war on Ukraine; Russia’s evolving lessons from the war and what the General Staff gets right and wrong about modern warfare; and the future of Russian military thought and planning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 4 days ago46 min
Lawfare Archive: Congressional Oversight, Post-Trump
From August 18, 2023: Listeners of this podcast are probably familiar with Molly Reynolds’s work on Congress. She’s a Senior Fellow at Brookings and a Senior Editor at Lawfare—and she has a new report out at Brookings, with Naomi Maehr, on “How partisan and policy dynamics shape congressional oversight in the post-Trump era.” Molly and her team have collected an enormous amount of data over the years about how Congress conducts oversight, and the report is a thought-provoking overview of what the legislature got up to during the 117th Congress. Today on the show, Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic talked with Molly about her report and what patterns she’s found in oversight from the 116th Congress through today. For fans of the Jan. 6 Committee’s work, they also discussed that committee’s investigation and what it does and doesn’t tell us about congressional investigations going forward. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 5 days ago54 min
Lawfare Daily: Anthropic’s Safety Mission vs. Public-Company Pressure
Kevin Frazier, Director of the AI Innovation and Law Program at the University of Texas School of Law and a senior editor at Lawfare, speaks with Roberto Tallarita, assistant professor at Harvard Law School, about Anthropic's recently filed s-1 and its experiment in corporate governance. They discuss its current status as a public benefit corporation, its decision to create and empower a body of financially disinterested trustees, and its current unique class structure. Drawing on Tallarita’s research on stakeholder governance and unequal voting rights, the two also discuss what would make a commitment to safety precautions durable even when in stark tension with profit.Tallarita lays out some of his thoughts on what could come next for Anthropic in his recent article “Profit and Mission in Anthropic’s IPO.” Frazier also has recently written an analysis of Anthropic’s post-IPO governance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- 5 days ago26 min
Lawfare Live: Seduction, Intelligence Gathering, and the Allegations Against Nvidia CEO
On Monday, Nov. 9, at 3:30 p.m. ET, in light of explosive allegations about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Lawfare Senior Editors Kate Klonick and Michael Feinberg sat down on Substack Live to discuss the role of seduction in intelligence gathering and how the public should think about the growing scandal. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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