Lawfare Archive: The Coup in Myanmar
From February 19, 2021: On February 1, Myanmar's military overthrew the country's democratically elected government in a coup and declared a state of emergency for a year. Since then, the country has ...
27 Mar 202240min
Lawfare Archive: Emily Bell on Journalism in the Platform Era
From March 4, 2021: On this episode of Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast’s miniseries on disinformation and misinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Emily Bell, the founding dir...
26 Mar 202252min
The Supreme Court Rules on State Secrets
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court issued rulings in two separate cases involving the state secrets privilege: United States v. Abu Zubaydah and Federal Bureau of Investigation v. Fazaga. To talk a...
25 Mar 202250min
Getting Information Into Russia
Over the last few weeks, we’ve talked a lot about the war in Ukraine on this series—how the Russian, Ukrainian and American governments are leveraging information as part of the conflict; how tech pla...
24 Mar 202259min
Thomas Rid on Ukraine and Cyberwar
Cyberwar is here, proclaims Thomas Rid, professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies in a New York Times op-ed last week entitled, “Why You Hav...
23 Mar 202241min
Gen. John Baker on the 9/11 Plea Negotiations
General John Baker served until December as the chief defense council at the military commissions. The military commissions’ prosecutors and defense lawyers are in conversations now about a possible p...
22 Mar 202239min
Tracking Russian Oligarch Yachts
Alex Finley is a former officer of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, who now is a novelist and a writer. Most recently, though, Alex has taken up a different task. She is the leader of #YachtWatch,...
21 Mar 202228min
Lawfare Archive: Joshua Yaffa on Putin’s Russia
From February 8, 2020: Russia continues to sporadically poke its head into American media headlines, whether it be for its role in Syria or for anxieties about fresh election interference in 2020. But...
20 Mar 202255min
