David Priess on "The President's Book of Secrets"
Two weeks ago, Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith sat down with David Priess at the Hoover Institution for a Hoover Book Soiree on Priess’s new book, The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelli...
4 Nov 201639min
Bahlul, Bahlul, Bahlul, Bahlul
On Thursday, October 20th, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled once again on the case of Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, a Guantanamo detainee convicted by a military commission for inchoate conspiracy to co...
28 Okt 201650min
Samuel Moyn on "How Warfare Became Both More Humane and Harder to End”
On October 19th, Samuel Moyn, Professor of Law and History at Harvard University, closed out a one-day conference on “The Next President's Fight Against Terror” at New America with a talk on “How Warf...
22 Okt 201649min
Jack Goldsmith and Susan Hennessey on Russian Interference in the U.S. Election
When audio dropped last Friday of Donald Trump boasting of attacks on women, the news quickly eclipsed another, just-as-important election story released right alongside it: reports that the United St...
14 Okt 201640min
Stephanie Leutert on Violence in Mexico and Central America
Stephanie Leutert, the Mexico Security Initiative Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of Lawfare's Beyond the Border series, joined Benjamin Wittes on this week's podcast to tal...
7 Okt 201638min
Rosa Brooks on "How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything"
At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Rosa Brooks joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about her new book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon. The book covers...
30 Sep 201653min
Judge Laurence Silberman on the Birth of NSD
Last week, the National Security Division of the Justice Department celebrated its 10th anniversary by holding a major conference at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Judge Laurence ...
23 Sep 201627min
An Interview with Independent Presidential Candidate Evan McMullin
It's been an unusual election season so far—to put it mildly. Among the many other unexpected or unprecedented occurrences that have taken place over the course of the 2016 campaign season, we've seen...
17 Sep 201637min
