The Report, Episode 11: A Special Counsel
It’s May 17, 2017. White House Counsel Don McGahn is in the Oval Office with the president. McGahn’s job is to represent the office of the presidency, which isn’t quite the same as representing the pr...
13 Loka 201958min
Leah Sottile on Bundyville and American Radicalism
At his rally in Minneapolis earlier this week, President Trump received voluntary security from an unexpected source: the Oathkeepers, a far-right militia associated with the white supremacy movement....
12 Loka 20191h 9min
Jim Baker and Susan Landau on 'Moving the Encryption Policy Conversation Forward'
Encryption and going dark splashed across the headlines in the wake of the 2015 San Bernardino attack, when the FBI and Apple went to court over access to an encrypted iPhone recovered from one of the...
9 Loka 201949min
The Report, Episode 10: You're Fired
It’s March 7, 2017. The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on the nomination of Rod Rosenstein to be the Deputy Attorney General. Rosenstein’s whole career has been leading up to this mom...
6 Loka 20191h 3min
Jack Goldsmith on 'In Hoffa’s Shadow'
In 1975, labor union leader and American icon Jimmy Hoffa went missing. Forty-four years after Hoffa’s disappearance, the crime remains one of America's greatest unsolved mysteries. One of those frequ...
5 Loka 201959min
WTF, Ukraine!
The first two years of the Trump presidency were tied up with the Russia scandal. Now, there’s another scandal involving Russia’s next-door neighbor: Ukraine. The revelation that President Trump and h...
1 Loka 201953min
The Report, Episode 9: Honest Loyalty
It’s January 26, 2017. Sally Yates is the acting Attorney General; she’s leading the Justice Department until Jeff Sessions is confirmed by the Senate. Yates has just learned some alarming news. The n...
29 Syys 201952min
Judge John Bates on FISA in the News
At the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin, Texas, Benjamin Wittes sat down in front of a live audience with Judge John Bates, a senior district judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Colum...
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