Lawfare Archive: Matt Olsen on the Future of Section 702
From June 3, 2017: With the impending sunset of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in December 2017, debate is heating up over how the crucial intelligence-gathering provision wi...
11 Dec 202154min
Uncovering a Secret U.S. Airstrike in Syria
On March 18, 2019, the U.S. conducted an airstrike in Baghuz, Syria, as part of its battle against the Islamic State. Two bombs were dropped killing dozens of people, as many as 80 according to U.S. C...
10 Dec 202156min
Content Moderation’s Original “Decider”
We talk a lot about how content moderation involves a lot of hard decisions and trade-offs—but at the end of the day, someone has to make a decision about what stays on a platform and what comes down....
9 Dec 202154min
Making Sense of the Crisis in Ethiopia
For the past year, the country of Ethiopia has been embroiled in a brutal civil war. At the center of it is Tigray, a region that has played a prominent role in the evolution of Ethiopia's modern ethn...
8 Dec 202146min
COVID and Intelligence with Eric Swalwell, Julie Gerberding and Matt Berrett
COVID-19 has shown us all that pandemics aren’t just a public health issue, but a national security one as well. Are America’s national security institutions prepared to address this threat? And what ...
7 Dec 202151min
Trouble Brewing in Ukraine
It's a scary time along the Ukrainian-Russian border these days. Russian troops are amassing in alarming numbers, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared recently that there had been a cou...
6 Dec 202152min
Lawfare Archive: Bob Bauer on Trump and the White House Counsel
From May 27, 2017: Amidst the hurricane of news coming out of the White House in recent weeks, one question has surfaced again and again: why isn't White House Counsel Don McGahn stopping Donald Trump...
5 Dec 202150min
Lawfare Archive: A House Divided
From May 6, 2017: Three months into the Trump presidency, where does the relationship between the President and the intelligence community stand? Donald Trump is no longer quite so regularly combative...
4 Dec 202155min
