Geeking Out on Al-Nashiri with Michel Paradis and Bob Loeb
Michel Paradis, a senior attorney in the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Defense Counsel and counsel for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, came on the podcast with Bob Loeb, a partner at Orrick, He...
2 Sep 201652min
Dave Aitel and Matt Tait on How “Everything You Know About the Vulnerability Equities Process Is Wrong”
Dave Aitel and Matt Tait come on the podcast to discuss their recent Lawfare essay critiquing the current status of the Vulnerability Equities Process. They argue that the process by which the US gove...
26 Aug 201647min
#LawfareAMA
It's the dog days of summer, and Lawfare is bringing you the special August AMA edition. All week, we've been taking your questions on Twitter under the hashtag #LawfareAMA, on topics ranging from Tru...
19 Aug 201636min
Walter Pincus on "The Norms of National Security Reporting"
Walter Pincus, the Washington Post’s recently-retired national security reporter, sat down with Benjamin Wittes at the Hoover Book Soiree to discuss Walter's recent essay, "Reflections on Secrecy and ...
12 Aug 201640min
John Brennan on "Emerging Challenges"
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency John Brennan came to the Brookings Institution on July 13th for a conversation with Brookings Senior Fellow Bruce Riedel on “CIA’s strategy in the face of e...
5 Aug 201659min
Shadi Hamid on "Islamic Exceptionalism"
Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Project on US Relations with the Islamic World and the author of the new book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Resha...
30 Jul 201657min
Steve Budiansky on "Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union"
Steve Budiansky is the author of Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union. He joined Ben at the Hoover Book Soiree for a live conversation about his ...
22 Jul 20161h 3min
Will McCants on "A Caliphate Without a Caliphate"
Will McCants, a Senior Fellow at Brookings and the Director of the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World, comes on the podcast to discuss ISIS’s involvement in the recent spate of terrorist a...
15 Jul 201629min
