Al-Shabaab Under the AUMF
Earlier this week, the New York Times published a story by Charlie Savage, Eric Schmitt, and Mark Mazzetti informing us that the Obama administration had changed its interpretation of the 2001 Authori...
2 Dec 201645min
Real Security: Governance and Stability in the Arab World
This week on the podcast, we’re bringing you some post-Thanksgiving food for thought on the uncertain state of the Arab world. On November 21, Madeleine Albright, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Stephen Hadley,...
26 Nov 201650min
Bill Banks on "Soldiers on the Homefront: The Domestic Role of the American Military"
At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Bill Banks, Professor of Law at Syracuse University and the Founding Director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrori...
19 Nov 201647min
"The First Day of the Rest of Our Lives" Edition
This week, the Lawfare Podcast brings you a joint episode of the show together with Rational Security. The usual Rational Security gang—Shane, Ben, Tamara, and Susan—reflect on the results of the elec...
12 Nov 201649min
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
