Is Trump Creating a Deep State?
In the waning days of his administration, the president has attempted to install a political loyalist as General Counsel of the National Security Agency, a position that is traditionally a merits posi...
18 Nov 202049min
Job Openings in Al Qaeda
The world’s most dangerous job apparently has a vacancy once again. Al Qaeda’s #2 reportedly has been killed in Iran by Israeli forces acting on U.S. intelligence. In addition, there are some rumors a...
17 Nov 202035min
'Homegrown: ISIS in America'
The Islamic State in America is a topic that once garnered front-page headlines, but it has fallen a bit out of public attention in the past year or so. Jacob Schulz sat down with Seamus Hughes, the a...
16 Nov 202053min
Kori Schake on What the Heck is Going On at the Pentagon
Kori Schake is a long-time Pentagon watcher; she is a former Defense Department, State Department and National Security Council official; and she leads the foreign policy and defense policy team at th...
13 Nov 202041min
Marietje Schaake on Reclaiming Democratic Control of the Internet
On this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke to Marietje Schaake about how Europe is not necessarily waiting for America to get its ac...
12 Nov 202053min
Firings, Transitions and Staffing, Oh My!
Yesterday, President Trump fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, the latest in a string of dismissals. Meanwhile, the Biden campaign is trying to put a transition together, but the head of the Genera...
10 Nov 202050min
Trump is Defeated
Well, that's it, folks. We have a president elect in Joe Biden. And, we have a president who is now officially a lame duck. To talk through the transition from Donald Trump to a more normal presidency...
9 Nov 202042min
Almost Done...
The votes are almost all counted, but they're not quite all counted. We kind of know where the electoral votes are going, but some of them have not gone there yet. We think we know the outcome, but th...
6 Nov 202047min
