Events

On April 23, Benjamin Wittes hosted a panel discussion at the Brookings Institution unpacking what we learned from the redacted version of the Mueller report. The panel featured Susan Hennessey, Chuck Rosenberg and Margaret Taylor. They discussed the factual record Mueller established on Russian interference and collusion, whether the president's conduct constitutes obstruction of justice and how Congress and the American people might react to the report.

Are you a current student who enjoys wrestling with the policy aspects of cybersecurity, especially insofar as they implicate national security and international relations? Thinking about forming a team to compete in the Atlantic Council’s amazing “Cyber 9/12” Strategy Competition in D.C. in the spring? And do you like tacos? If you answered at least two out of three of these questions with yes, then you will want to plan on a trip to UT-Austin in January for the stand-alone “Austin Regional” of the Cyber 9/12 event!

The Hoover Institution will host the next event of the “Security by the Book” series on Oct. 9 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., where Lawfare’s Jack Goldsmith will interview John Mearsheimer about his new book, “The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities.”

Back in February, we joined forces in this post to draw attention to the wide array of dangers to individuals and to society posed by advances in “deepfake” technology (that is, the capacity to alter audio or video to make it appear, falsely, that a real person said or did something). The post generated a considerable amount of discussion, which was great, but we understood we had barely scratched the surface of the issue.