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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 202041min
A Busy Week at the DC Circuit
It was a big week for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals who handed down opinions in two cases involving former presidential White House advisors. The case of Don McGahn, former White House Counsel, was ...
4 Sep 202045min
Alissa Starzak on Cloudflare, Content Moderation and the Internet Stack
This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Alissa Starzak, the head of public policy at Cloudflare—a company that provides key compon...
3 Sep 202042min
Briefings Schmiefings
Last week, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe informed Congress that elections security briefings in the run-up to the 2020 election would no longer be oral. There would be written intel...
2 Sep 202043min
