Episode #58: A Roundtable Discussion of President Obama's NSA Speech
President Obama delivered a major address this morning---and released an accompanying policy directive---in response to the recommendations of his surveillance review group. He announced limited refor...
18 Jan 201444min
Episode #57: General Stanley McChystal and Kristina Talbert-Slagle on Lessons on Counterinsurgency from the Human Body
Are there parallels between insurgencies and illness? Or between healthy bodies and healthy nations? Innovative new thinking argues that indeed there are. As understanding in various related disciplin...
6 Jan 20141h 11min
Episode #56: Inside NSA, Part V--An Interview with Fran Fleisch, Acting Deputy Director of NSA
In the final episode in our series, "Inside NSA: We Brought In a Recording Device So You Don't Have To," Benjamin Wittes interviews the agency's executive director--and now its acting deputy director-...
20 Dec 201329min
Episode #55: Inside NSA, Part IV—We Speak with Anne Neuberger, the Woman on Front Lines of NSA's Relations with Industry
The U.S. technology sector is pretty upset with NSA these days. Anne Neuberger, who manages the agency's relations with the private sector, is on the front lines of this tense relationship. Bobby Ches...
19 Dec 201342min
Episode #54: Inside NSA, Part III--Wherein We Talk to Lonny Anderson, Chief of NSA's Technology Directorate
Bobby Chesney and Benjamin Wittes sit down with the head of IT at NSA and talk about how Edward Snowden did it, and what's being done to make sure the next Edward Snowden can't do it again. We talked ...
18 Dec 201342min
Episode #53: Inside NSA, Part II--Wherein We Interview the Agency's Chief of Compliance, John DeLong
In the second episode of our series, "Inside NSA: We Brought In a Recording Device So You Don't Have To," Robert Chesney and Benjamin Wittes talk to John DeLong, the agency's chief of compliance. They...
17 Dec 201352min
Episode #52: Inside NSA, Part I--A Discusison with General Counsel Rajesh De
The first episode in our series, "Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don't Have To": An interview with NSA General Counsel Rajesh De.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfa...
16 Dec 201355min
Episode #51: Colombia's Minister of National Defense Juan Carlos Pinzon Bueno Speaks at Brookings
After more than four decades of conflict, Colombia has made substantial progress under the Uribe and Santos administrations in combating drug trafficking and insurgents and demobilizing paramilitary g...
6 Dec 20131h 1min
