Episode #60: Wherein We Talk to DNI General Counsel Robert Litt
DNI General Counsel Robert Litt talks about implementation of President Obama's NSA reforms, privacy rights for foreigners in espionage, spying on foreign heads of state, and amnesty for Edward Snowde...
30 Jan 201440min
Episode #59: How Osama bin Laden Escaped Afghanistan
The Brookings Intelligence Project hosted Foreign Service Officer Yaniv Barzilai on January 23, 2014 to discuss his new book, 102 Days of War---How Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and the Taliban Survived ...
24 Jan 20141h 20min
Episode #58: A Roundtable Discussion of President Obama's NSA Speech
President Obama delivered a major address this morning---and released an accompanying policy directive---in response to the recommendations of his surveillance review group. He announced limited refor...
18 Jan 201444min
Episode #57: General Stanley McChystal and Kristina Talbert-Slagle on Lessons on Counterinsurgency from the Human Body
Are there parallels between insurgencies and illness? Or between healthy bodies and healthy nations? Innovative new thinking argues that indeed there are. As understanding in various related disciplin...
6 Jan 20141h 11min
Episode #56: Inside NSA, Part V--An Interview with Fran Fleisch, Acting Deputy Director of NSA
In the final episode in our series, "Inside NSA: We Brought In a Recording Device So You Don't Have To," Benjamin Wittes interviews the agency's executive director--and now its acting deputy director-...
20 Des 201329min
Episode #55: Inside NSA, Part IV—We Speak with Anne Neuberger, the Woman on Front Lines of NSA's Relations with Industry
The U.S. technology sector is pretty upset with NSA these days. Anne Neuberger, who manages the agency's relations with the private sector, is on the front lines of this tense relationship. Bobby Ches...
19 Des 201342min
Episode #54: Inside NSA, Part III--Wherein We Talk to Lonny Anderson, Chief of NSA's Technology Directorate
Bobby Chesney and Benjamin Wittes sit down with the head of IT at NSA and talk about how Edward Snowden did it, and what's being done to make sure the next Edward Snowden can't do it again. We talked ...
18 Des 201342min
Episode #53: Inside NSA, Part II--Wherein We Interview the Agency's Chief of Compliance, John DeLong
In the second episode of our series, "Inside NSA: We Brought In a Recording Device So You Don't Have To," Robert Chesney and Benjamin Wittes talk to John DeLong, the agency's chief of compliance. They...
17 Des 201352min
