Unpacking the FBI's Search at Mar-a-Lago
The FBI on Monday conducted a surprise search of Donald Trump's home and resort at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. The investigation appeared to involve the retention of classified information by the former pr...
10 Aug 202253min
Nick Turse on the Pentagon’s Secretive Funding Authority, 127e
Last month, The Intercept published a new investigation from Alice Speri and Nick Turse looking into a secretive funding authority at the Pentagon known as 127e, or 127-echo. Using exclusive documents...
9 Aug 202230min
Decoding Aleksandr Ionov’s Influence Operation with Thomas Rid and Brandon Van Grack
On July 29, the Justice Department announced the indictment of Aleksandr Ionov, a Russian national and president of the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia. Ionov is charged with “conspiring to have...
8 Aug 202249min
Rational Security: The “Small World After All” Edition
This week on Rational Security, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by favorite guest Lawfare executive editor Natalie Orpett to hash through the week's big national security news stories, including:“...
7 Aug 20221h 6min
Lawfare Archive: Elsa Kania on China’s Quantum Quest
From September 22, 2018: If you ask scientists what is most likely to kick off the next great wave of technological change, a good number will answer “quantum mechanics”—a field whose physics Albert E...
6 Aug 202245min
When Lawyers Spread Disinformation
A few weeks ago on Arbiters of Truth, our series on the online information system, we brought you a conversation with two emergency room doctors about their efforts to push back against members of the...
5 Aug 202250min
Pelosi in Taiwan
Nancy Pelosi made a visit to Taiwan this week. It wasn't exactly a surprise—we all knew it was happening—but it wasn't announced, and it wasn't quite official either. Beijing has gone a little bit cra...
4 Aug 202248min
Dan Byman and Scott Anderson on the al-Zawahiri Strike
Another day, another leader of al-Qaeda is killed by U.S. forces. This time, it was Ayman al-Zawahiri, killed on his balcony in Kabul by a Hellfire missile strike. To talk about it all, Benjamin Witte...
3 Aug 202247min
