Lawfare Archive: Phil Carter on Civil-Military Relations in the Trump Administration
From February 20, 2018: The military has been not been a refuge from the Trump administration's norm-defying nature. Jack Goldsmith speaks to Phil Carter, a senior fellow at the Center for a New Ameri...
5 Sep 202138min
Lawfare Archive: Shane Harris on Drones
From January 29, 2012: Our subject in the podcast's inaugural episode is a remarkable article by journalist Shane Harris entitled "Out of the Loop: The Human-Free Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles."S...
4 Sep 202146min
Sue Gordon and John McLaughlin on Intelligence and the Afghanistan Withdrawal
Many questions involving intelligence and Afghanistan have come up in the past few weeks. Did intelligence prepare policymakers for the rapid collapse of the Afghan forces and the Taliban’s taking of ...
3 Sep 202155min
The Disinformation Industrial Complex
This week on our Arbiters of Truth series on our online information ecosystem, we’re going to be talking about … disinformation! What else? It’s everywhere. It’s ruining society. It’s the subject of e...
2 Sep 202153min
Data Brokers and National Security
A privacy and national security threat that goes under-discussed is data brokers, the secretive industry of companies buying, aggregating, selling, licensing and otherwise sharing consumer data. Justi...
1 Sep 202140min
‘Reign of Terror’ with Spencer Ackerman
Jack Goldsmith sat down with national security reporter Spencer Ackerman, the author of the new book, “Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump.” The two discussed the...
31 Aug 20211h 11min
AUMF Reform After Afghanistan
Since January, talk about reforming the nearly 20-year-old 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force, or AUMF, that provides the legal basis for most overseas U.S. counterterrorism activities, has ...
30 Aug 202157min
Lawfare Archive: Bob Bauer and A.B. Culvahouse on Defending the President
From October 7, 2017: Last month, Lawfare and Foreign Policy hosted an event on lawyering for the Trump presidency. Susan Hennessey spoke with former White House Counsels Bob Bauer, who served in the ...
29 Aug 202135min
