Rational Security: The “A Friend in Need is a Friend Security Guaranteed” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Quinta and Scott were joined by Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to talk through the week’s big national security news, including:“You’ll Shoot Your Five Eyes Out ...
17 Des 20231h 8min
Trump’s Trials and Tribulations: Mr. Smith Goes to the Supreme Court, not the D.C. Circuit
It's another edition of “Trump’s Trials and Tribulations,” recorded on Thursday before a live audience of Lawfare Material Supporters. This week, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with ...
16 Des 20231h 8min
Lawfare Archive: Jim Baker and Carl Ghattas on Section 702
From July 29, 2017: On December 31, 2017, Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act will sunset. While U.S. officials insist that the provision authorizes critical intelligence gathering, it remains an o...
16 Des 202341min
Fossil Fuel Flops at COP28
According to the resolution signed at the end of the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP28 for short, fossil fue...
15 Des 202334min
Chatter: The Ghost Army of World War II with Journalist Rick Beyer
In the summer of 1944, a group of artists, visual designers and sound engineers--all of them GIs--began a series of secret operations in occupied France. Their mission: to deceive German forces about ...
14 Des 20231h 7min
A New United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counterterrorism
Ben Saul is the Challis Professor of International Law at the University of Sydney, Australia, whose internationally recognized work has focused specifically on the intersection of human rights, terro...
14 Des 20231h 1min
Argentina’s New President: An Anarcho-capitalist in the Pink House
You may have heard of Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president, thanks to some of his eccentricities, like his five cloned dogs or his reliance on a chainsaw prop to illustrate the need to cut public e...
13 Des 202354min
Preston Marquis, Molly Reynolds, and Benjamin Wittes on the Two House FISA Sec. 702 Bills
FISA Section 702 is set to expire on Dec. 31, 2023. Last week, two bills were marked up by two different House committees—one in the House Judiciary Committee and one in the House Permanent Select Com...
12 Des 202344min
