Episode #40: Brookings Event, "Striking Syria? Obama, Congress and Military Action"
On Thursday, Brookings hosted an event on possible U.S. military intervention in Syria. Brookings Senior Fellow Michael O'Hanlon lead the discussion, in which Brookings scholars debated the strategic...
6 Sep 20131h 29min
Episode #39: Laura Dean on the Bloodbath in Egypt
Ben interviews Laura Dean, Lawfare's Cairo Diarist, about the coup in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, and freelancing the revolution.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acas...
28 Aug 201329min
Episode #37--Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad
Daniel Byman of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Ben Wittes of the Governance Studies program at Brookings launched their report entitled “Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terr...
26 Jul 20131h 29min
Episode #36--Robert Litt on Privacy and Intelligence Collection
Robert LItt, general counsel of the ODNI, speaks at the Brookings Institution on Privacy and Intelligence Collection.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.co...
19 Jul 20131h 7min
Episode #35: Mark Plotkin on Private Sector National Security Law
Raffaela Wakeman interviews Covington & Burling partner Mark Plotkin on private sector national security law.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...
6 Jul 201330min
Episode #34: Alan Liotta Speaks at MILOPS
For a week last June, Ben was hanging out in Bangkok, at the International Military Law and Operations (MILOPS) Conference. While there, he took in an interesting and important address by Alan Liotta...
28 Jun 201350min
Episode #33--An Address by Rached Ghannouchi
The Brookings Institution hosted Rached Ghannouchi, co-founder and president of Tunisia's Nahda Party, for an address on the future of Tunisian democracy. His remarks centered around the progress the ...
5 Jun 20131h 27min
Episode #32: A Discussion with 9-11 Case Defense Lawyer CDR Walter Ruiz
This week, Lawfare sat down with CDR Walter Ruiz, a lawyer for accused 9-11 co-conspirator Mustafa al-Hawsawi. Our discussion touched on, among other things: the fairness of military commission rules;...
28 Mai 201347min
