Episode #71: A Conversation with John Rizzo
Benjamin Wittes interviews John Rizzo, former CIA acting general counsel, about his new book, Company Man, the persistence of the enhanced interrogation controversy, and the current debate over NSA su...
18 Apr 201447min
Episode #70: Bruce Schneier on Technology and Privacy
Bruce Schneier of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School gave a keynote address on April 3, 2014 during the “National Security Agency at the Crossroads” conference at UT-Aus...
11 Apr 201438min
Episode #69: A Conversation with Former NSA Deputy Director Chris Inglis
This week, the University of Texas at Austin hosted a two day conference, "The National Security Agency at the Crossroads." Former NSA Deputy Director Chris Inglis gave an address; afterwards, Inglis ...
5 Apr 201439min
Episode #68: John Carlin on Cybersecurity
John Carlin, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security at the Department of Justice, gave a keynote address on cybersecurity at American University’s Washington College of Law.Suppor...
28 Mars 201432min
Episode #67: An Address from NATO's Secretary General
On March 19, the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe (CUSE) hosted NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen for a Statesman’s Forum address on the importance of the transatlantic alli...
21 Mars 20141h 5min
Episode #66: A Conversation with Shane Harris
Shane Harris of Foreign Policy magazine sits down with Benjamin Wittes to discuss two major news events of the week: the CIA-SSCI flap and the back-and-forth between NSA and the courts over whether it...
14 Mars 201441min
Episode #65: A Conversation Between Michael Chertoff and Anthony Romero
Former DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff and ACLU Chief Anthony Romero go mano a mano at a Federalist Society Event over Edward Snowden, metadata collection, standing in national security cases, and othe...
6 Mars 20141h 1min
Episode #64: The State of the International Order
Ten years after the Iraq War and five years after the global financial crisis, the state of the international order is decidedly mixed. The international system faces a new and increasingly complex se...
1 Mars 20141h 30min
