Rational Security 2.0: The “Korea Culpa” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott went guestless to discuss the week’s big national security news, including:“Ne Me Quitte Pas.” The nearby island nation of Haiti is hitting new ...
25 Sep 20221h 5min
Lawfare Archive: A Deep Dive on China and the Uighurs
From July 15, 2020: We talk a lot about Chinese policy in Hong Kong, but there's another human rights crisis going on in China in the province of Xinjiang. It concerns the Turkic minority known as the...
24 Sep 202259min
The Fifth Circuit is Wrong on the Internet
Our Arbiters of Truth series on the online information ecosystem has been taking a bit of a hiatus—but we’re back! On today’s episode, we’re discussing the recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals f...
23 Sep 202254min
Dan Byman on Content Moderation Tools to Stop Extremism
There's enormous debate about how much social media platforms should be doing to moderate extremist content. But that debate often lacks nuance about the many different ways that platforms can moderat...
22 Sep 202235min
Foreign Agents and the Barrack Indictment
This past Monday, the criminal trial of Thomas Barrack began in federal court in the Eastern District of New York. Barrack, who served as an informal advisor to the 2016 Trump campaign and then as cha...
21 Sep 202238min
Geoffrey Berman on ‘Holding the Line’
Geoffrey Berman was the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Trump administration. He was appointed under peculiar circumstances, and he was fired under even more peculiar circum...
20 Sep 202244min
Judge Cannon’s Latest Mar-a-Lago Ruling
On September 15, Judge Aileen Cannon of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida issued two key rulings in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. She appointed Judge Raymond Dearie of the ...
19 Sep 202254min
Chatter: CIA Paramilitary Ops in Reality and Fiction
Of all of the Central Intelligence Agency's activities, paramilitary operations might remain the least understood. This, in part, is both a cause and a consequence of inaccurate portrayals of such wor...
18 Sep 20221h 9min
