Congress's Control Over the Military
In recent years, Congress has taken unprecedented steps to push back against the Trump administration's efforts to pull U.S. troops from certain long-standing deployments overseas. The most recent suc...
17 Syys 202051min
The Spymasters with Chris Whipple
What is the proper relationship between the CIA director and the president? How should directors handle arguably illegal orders? How important is the director's role as the nation's honest broker of i...
16 Syys 202051min
Alina Polyakova on the Poisoning of Alexei Navalny
Alexei Navalny is Russia's most prominent dissident, opposition leader and anti-corruption crusader—and the latest such person to be poisoned by the Vladimir Putin regime, which, of course, it denies....
15 Syys 202033min
Mike Schmidt on Stopping a President
Michael S. Schmidt is a reporter for The New York Times, a reporter who broke a number of key stories during the Russia investigation. He is most recently the author of "Donald Trump v. The United Sta...
14 Syys 202047min
Pete Strzok on 'Compromised'
Peter Strzok served in the FBI from 1996 to 2018 and eventually became the deputy head of the counterintelligence division, where he supervised, among other things, the Russia investigation, both at t...
11 Syys 20201h 21min
Ben Nimmo on the Return of the Internet Research Agency
This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Ben Nimmo, the director of investigations at Graphika. Ben has come on the podcast befo...
10 Syys 202045min
Cheap Fakes on the Campaign Trail
It was a big week for manipulated video and audio content. In just 36 hours, senior republicans or people associated with the Trump campaign tweeted, posted or shared manipulated audio or video on soc...
9 Syys 202044min
Everything You Wanted to Know About the Hatch Act But Were Afraid to Ask
The Hatch Act has been in the news a lot recently, between the Republican National Convention's use of the White House grounds and Secretary Pompeo's decision to address the Convention from an officia...
8 Syys 202041min
