About That Border Wall
President Trump kicked off the first foreign policy crisis of his new administration by signing an executive order mandating the construction of the much-promised border wall with Mexico, resulting in...
28 Jan 201737min
What the Privacy Debate Gets Wrong
On January 13th, Benjamin Wittes and Emma Kohse released a new paper challenging the assumption that "privacy is an eroding value," worn away by the incessant collection of online data about consumer ...
20 Jan 20171h 15min
Jameel Jaffer on "The Drone Memos"
Jameel Jaffer, author of The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law, joins Jack Goldsmith at the Hoover Book Soiree. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast....
14 Jan 201750min
Susan Hennessey and Matt Tait Go on a Political Witch Hunt
In an interview with The New York Times before his intelligence briefing on Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. election on Friday, President-elect Donald Trump called the intelligence community...
6 Jan 201746min
Deterring Russian Cyber Intrusions
Whatever the President-elect might say on the matter, the question of Russian interference in the presidential election is not going away: calls continue in the Senate for an investigation into the Kr...
23 Des 201646min
Intelligence Under a Trump Administration
The annual Cato Surveillance Conference kicked off this week with a panel on "Intelligence Under a Trump Administration," featuring former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olse...
16 Des 20161h 4min
The Lawfare Podcast: Christopher Moran on "Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, and the CIA"
The Lawfare Podcast has made it to our 200th episode! Thank you to all our listeners, old and new. This week at the Hoover Book Soiree, Jack Goldsmith interviewed Christopher Moran, a professor at the...
9 Des 201638min
Al-Shabaab Under the AUMF
Earlier this week, the New York Times published a story by Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, and Mark Mazzetti informing us that the Obama administration had changed its interpretation of the 2001 Authori...
2 Des 201645min
