DHS Leadership Talk Cybersecurity
The Lawfare Podcast
Tim Maurer, Jennifer Daskal and Eric Goldstein joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about what the Biden administration's priority is in cybersecurity domestically, how DHS is using its new authorities that it has received in the National Defense Authorization Act, how CISA has grown as an agency and what success looks like if the administration pursues its goals effectively.
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The Challenges of Audio Content Moderation
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This week on Arbiters of Truth, the Lawfare Podcast’s miniseries on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic talked to Sean Li, who until recently was the head of Trust and Safety at Discord. Discord is experiencing phenomenal growth and is an established player in a space that is the new hot thing: audio social media. As almost every social media platform is trying to get into audio, what should they be prepared for?
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Spy Writing in the Real World
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Last week for the Michael V. Hayden Center for Intelligence, Policy, and International Security at George Mason University's Schar School of Policy and Government, David Priess moderated a virtual event called, "Spy Writing in the Real World." The event featured three authors of espionage fiction, two with previous experience working inside the U.S. intelligence community: Brad Thor, Karen Cleveland and Alma Katsu.
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'National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press'
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Jack Goldsmith sat down with Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, and Geoffrey Stone, the Edward H. Levy Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, to discuss their new book, "National Security, Leaks and Freedom of the Press: The Pentagon Papers Fifty Years On." They discussed the holding and legacy of the Pentagon Papers case, as well as some of the many challenges of applying the Pentagon Papers regime in the modern digital era.
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After Trump, Episode 2: Enemy of the People
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In the second episode of "After Trump," the six-part limited podcast series based on the book, "After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency," by Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, we consider the problem of foreign interventions in American political campaigns—and what to do about it.
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Biden Announces a Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan
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On Wednesday, President Biden announced a full withdrawal of all U.S. military personnel from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. Prior to the withdrawal announcement, Bryce Klehm spoke with Thomas Gibbons-Neff who walked us through the situation on the ground in Afghanistan. Following Biden's announcement, Bryce spoke with Madiha Afzal who talked about the broader implications of a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Twitter, Facial Recognition and the First Amendment
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Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Jameel Jaffer and Ramya Krishnan of the Knight First Amendment Institute. What do facial recognition software and President Trump’s erstwhile Twitter habits have in common? They both implicate the First Amendment—and hint at how old doctrines struggle to adapt to new technologies. They talked about current cases that don't neatly fit into existing First Amendment categories and possible ways the law might adjust to the digital age.
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Identifying and Exploiting the Weaknesses of White Supremacist Groups
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People are expressing anxiety about white supremacist violent terrorism, yet in a new Brookings paper entitled "Identifying and Exploiting the Weaknesses of the White Supremacist Movement," Daniel Byman and Mark Pitcavage say that while the threat is real, these movements have weaknesses that other terrorist groups do not. Benjamin Wittes sat down with them to talk about these weaknesses, how white supremacist groups are vulnerable and how law enforcement in the U.S. can exploit them to reduce the threat.
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The Continuing Threat of White Extremism
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Last week, Lawfare was hosted by the National Security Law Society at the Georgetown University Law Center for a discussion of what the recent rise of acts of violence and domestic terrorism means for U.S. national security. Benjamin Wittes, Jacob Schulz and Scott R. Anderson joined Elizabeth Neumann and Ryan Greer to discuss how white extremism and domestic terrorism relate to each other, what's driving radicalization among white Americans and steps the Biden administration can take to combat it.
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After Trump, Episode 1: Follow the Money
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On this special edition of the Lawfare Podcast, we're turning over our feed to the new podcast series, "After Trump," produced by Lawfare in collaboration with Goat Rodeo and hosted by Virginia Heffernan of Slate's "Trumpcast." "After Trump," based on the "After Trump" book by Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, is a six-part limited series that dives into some of the major themes of the book, outlining their proposal of reform to our government in the fallout of the Trump Administration.
info_outlineAnne Applebaum is a columnist, writer, historian and most recently, the author of "Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lore of Authoritarianism," a book that explores why authoritarian ideologies are on the ascendance in countries as diverse as Poland, Hungary, Spain, the United States and Great Britain. Benjamin Wittes spoke with Anne about the themes of the book: Why are all of these authoritarian ideologies on the rise now? What is the role of social media in their rise? What are the major themes that they have in common, and how different are they location by location? How did conservative ideology come to fracture the way it has over so brief a period of time? And how is the modern wave of authoritarianism different from earlier iterations of it?