Rep. Adam Schiff on the Role of Congress in Protecting Liberal Democracy
Between leading the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence's first open hearing on Russian election interference on Monday, and sparring with HPSCI Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes over Nunes's od...
24 Maalis 20171h 4min
Special Emergency Edition: Comey and Rogers Versus the Comittee, the Good Parts Version
Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers testified before the House Intelligence Committee on Russian interference in the U.S. election for an exhausting five and a hal...
21 Maalis 201756min
Cybersecurity in the Trump Administration
President Donald Trump has pledged to end the defense sequester and make the development of defensive and offensive cyber capabilities a White House priority, but the contours of U.S. cyber policy und...
18 Maalis 20171h 32min
Jack Goldsmith and Matt Olsen on the Current State of National Security
This week on the podcast, Jack Goldsmith sat down with former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matt Olsen to talk about the current state of national security. What should we make of t...
11 Maalis 201738min
What Happens When We Don’t Believe the President’s Oath?
Yesterday, Just Security and the Center on Law and Security at New York University School of Law hosted Benjamin Wittes for a conversation on a question he and I have posed about the path of the Trump...
4 Maalis 20171h 2min
Paul Lewis on Not Closing Guantanamo
Under the oversight of Paul Lewis, the Department of Defense’s Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure under the Obama administration, the detainee population at Guantanamo Bay went from 164 to 41. But ...
24 Helmi 201741min
Edward Jay Epstein on “How America Lost Its Secrets”
Amidst the chaos surrounding Michael Flynn’s departure as national security advisor and the slowly unspooling news story on the Trump team’s reported contacts with the Russian government, it’s worth t...
17 Helmi 201757min
Norm Eisen on the Emoluments Clause
Donald Trump's election as president brought a surge of interest in the previously obscure Emoluments Clause, which prohibits any “Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States...
11 Helmi 201738min
