Episode #63: "Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: The Cybersecurity Framework and Beyond"
On February 19, the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution hosted a panel discussion evaluating the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Framew...
21 Feb 20141h 30min
Episode #62: Wittes and Friedersdorf Debate the Ethics of Drones
Conor Friedersdorf and Benjamin Wittes debate the ethics of drone warfare at the University of Richmond in November 2013.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acas...
14 Feb 201452min
Episode #61: Defending an Unowned Internet
A discussion at the Berkman Center: In the wake of the disclosures about government surveillance and the rise of corporate-run applications and protocols, is the idea of an “unowned” Internet still a ...
8 Feb 20141h 38min
Episode #60: Wherein We Talk to DNI General Counsel Robert Litt
DNI General Counsel Robert Litt talks about implementation of President Obama's NSA reforms, privacy rights for foreigners in espionage, spying on foreign heads of state, and amnesty for Edward Snowde...
30 Jan 201440min
Episode #59: How Osama bin Laden Escaped Afghanistan
The Brookings Intelligence Project hosted Foreign Service Officer Yaniv Barzilai on January 23, 2014 to discuss his new book, 102 Days of War---How Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda, and the Taliban Survived ...
24 Jan 20141h 20min
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
