Sasha O'Connell on Turning a Ship Like the FBI
Sasha O'Connell is Executive in Residence in the School of Public Affairs at American University, as well as AU's director of the Terrorism and Homeland Security Policy Masters program. She also had a...
13 Aug 201951min
The Report, Episode 4: A Tale of Two Trump Towers
The fourth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which tells the story Robert S. Mueller lays out in his famous 448-page document. This is the story of two Trump Towers, one i...
11 Aug 201957min
Amanda Sloat on Boris Johnson and Brexit
The United Kingdom has a new Prime Minister. It also has a looming cliff it is careening toward and about to leap off of on Halloween of this year. This week, Benjamin Wittes sat down with his Brookin...
10 Aug 201951min
Mark Rozell on 'Presidential Power, Secrecy and Accountability'
Over the years, presidents have used different language to describe the withholding of information from Congress. To discuss the concept of "executive privilege," Margaret Taylor sat down with Mark Ro...
7 Aug 201936min
The Report, Episode III: The Campaign and the Leaks
While Trump campaign officials engaged with the Russian social media manipulation operation as unwitting dupes, the story of the Trump campaign’s involvement with the GRU email hacking operation is mo...
4 Aug 201944min
Mary Ann Glendon on Unalienable Rights
Mary Ann Glendon is the chair of the Commission on Unalienable Rights, announced by Secretary Pompeo on July 8, 2019, to great controversy. The commission was charged with examining the bases of human...
3 Aug 201933min
Ambassador Doug Silliman on the State of the U.S.-Iraq Relationship
Few nations have a history with the United States that is as complicated as that of the Republic of Iraq. Today, several factors, including the Trump administration's campaign of maximum pressure agai...
30 Juli 201950min
Jonna Mendez on 'The Moscow Rules'
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency had a major problem. The streets of Moscow were a virtually impossible operating environment due to heavy KGB surveillance and other operational...
28 Juli 201951min
