Alex Stamos on Fighting Election Disinformation in Real Time
This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Alex Stamos, the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and former chief security o...
20 Aug 202055min
Scott Anderson and Richard Gowan on the Disagreement in the Security Council on the Snapback of UN Sanctions on Iran
Late last week, the UN Security Council voted down a resolution, offered by the United States, to indefinitely extend a conventional arms embargo on Iran set to expire in October. The lifting of the a...
19 Aug 202042min
Manipulating Intelligence Then and Now with Robert Draper
President Trump's relationship with the intelligence community is back in the news again after allegations that his administration manipulated an intelligence report to show a false equivalency betwee...
18 Aug 202044min
A Surprise UAE-Israel Deal
In a surprise announcement last week, the United Arab Emirates and Israel are normalizing relations, and Israel is putting on hold its plans for annexation of West Bank territory. To discuss the annou...
17 Aug 202045min
Adam Jentleson and Molly Reynolds on Getting Rid of the Senate Filibuster
On July 30, former President Barack Obama, speaking at the funeral of Congressman John Lewis, threw his weight behind ending the Senate filibuster if necessary to pursue a voting rights agenda. His co...
14 Aug 202052min
Shane Huntley on Countering Digital Threats at Google
This week on Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Shane Huntley, the director of Google’s Threat Analysis Group—a team that leads Google’...
13 Aug 202046min
Trump Takes Aim at TikTok and WeChat
President Trump recently issued executive orders aimed at banning TikTok and WeChat from operating in the United States. To discuss the sanction, Bobby Chesney sat down with Dr. Sheena Chestnut Greite...
12 Aug 202055min
The McGahn Decision and Proxy Voting
Last week, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington handed down a major en banc decision on the question of whether the president's former White House Counsel, Don McGahn, even needs to show up i...
11 Aug 202052min
