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The Lawfare Podcast is the weekly audio production of the Lawfare staff in cooperation with the Brookings Institution. Podcast episodes include interviews with policymakers, scholars, journalists, and analysts; events and panel discussions. 

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The Lawfare Podcast Shorts: The Sordid Story of Impeachment

Mikhaila Fogel   Sun, Jan 19, 2020, 10:49 AM

The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump is set to begin on Jan. 21, and the question of what constitutes an impeachable offense is sure to feature in the trial itself and in the broader discussion of the president’s conduct. To answer that question, many commentators, lawmakers and experts may rely on what the Founders said at the time the Impeachment Clause was written into the Constitution. But there’s another way to think about an impeachable offense: by looking at the offenses for which Congress has actually impeached people.

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The Lawfare Podcast: Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Anti-Semitic Violence in New York

Jen Patja Howell   Sat, Jan 18, 2020, 9:30 AM

Batya Ungar-Sargon is the opinion editor of The Forward, the Jewish newspaper published out of New York City. She has been among the chroniclers, both in print and on Twitter, of the recent spate of attacks against Orthodox communities in New York and New Jersey. She joined Benjamin Wittes by Skype to talk about the origins of these attacks, why it is so hard to respond to them, and why they don't fit in with any of our political preconceptions.

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The Lawfare Podcast: Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron on Deep Fakes

Jen Patja Howell   Thu, Jan 16, 2020, 11:52 AM

On this episode of the Arbiters of Truth series, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with law professors Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron about deep fakes—that is, artificial audio and video that can be used to depict a person doing or saying something that they never did or said. They talked about the paper that Bobby and Danielle wrote in 2018 about how deep fakes pose a looming challenge for privacy, democracy, and national security.

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The Lawfare Podcast: Imagining an Impeachment Trial

Jen Patja Howell   Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 8:58 PM

There's going to be a House vote tomorrow to send the impeachment articles over to the Senate. Then there's going to be a little parade where the appointed managers from the House take them over. And then, we're going to have a Senate trial. Benjamin Wittes gathered in the Jungle Studio with Margaret Taylor, Molly Reynolds, David Priess, and Jonathan Shaub (by phone) to imagine what that trial will look like.

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The Lawfare Podcast: The National Security Law Podcast Guys Talk Soleimani

Hadley Baker, Jen Patja Howell   Sat, Jan 11, 2020, 9:30 AM

As part of Lawfare's continuing coverage of the killing of Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani, we are bringing you an edited version of the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast, in which Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck discuss the legality of the strike and what this means for the future of U.S.-Iranian relations.

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The Lawfare Podcast: What Fresh Disinformation Hell Awaits in 2020?

Jen Patja Howell   Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 11:54 AM

It’s 2020, and the Lawfare Podcast's "Arbiters of Truth" series on disinformation is back for the new year. Quinta Jurecic sat down with cohosts Evelyn Douek, Kate Klonick, and Alina Polyakova to discuss what they’ve learned over the last few months of putting together this podcast—and what they should expect for the year to come. What new regulation or oversight mechanisms will we see for social media companies? Should Twitter remove or hide the president’s tweets?

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The Lawfare Podcast: Lawfare AMA 2020

Jen Patja Howell   Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 7:46 PM

To kick off this year of The Lawfare Podcast, we wanted to hear from you. You tweeted your questions and you left us voicemails, and we did our best to answer you. Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, Bobby Chesney, David Priess, Quinta Jurecic, David Kris, Scott R. Anderson, Molly Reynolds, and Margaret Taylor came together to tackle your impeachment questions, your foreign policy questions, your FISA questions, your recommendation requests, and everything in-between.

Thank you for your questions. And as always, thank you for listening.

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The Lawfare Podcast Special Edition: Law and the Soleimani Strike

Mikhaila Fogel   Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 6:55 PM

On Friday, the Lawfare Podcast hosted a conversation on the wide-ranging policy implications of the U.S. strike that killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ leader Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, deputy commander of Iraq’s quasi-official Popular Mobilization Forces and leader of the Iraqi militia and PMF Keta’ib Hezbollah.

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Lawfare Podcast Special Edition: The Soleimani Strike and Its Fallout

Benjamin Wittes   Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 2:01 PM

The American drone strike last night that killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Quds Force, is a seismic event in U.S.-Iranian relations—and for the broader Middle East. We put together an emergency podcast, drawing on the resources of both Lawfare and the Brookings Institution and reflecting the depth of the remarkable collaboration between the two.

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The Lawfare Podcast: Upheaval and Repression in Iran

Jen Patja Howell   Tue, Dec 31, 2019, 8:17 PM

Iran is in turmoil. Protests erupted across the country last month, sparked by the government's decision to triple the price of gasoline. The Iranian government has responded with brute force, imposing a blackout of the internet and deploying security forces to crack down in the streets. The crackdown has left hundreds dead and thousands injured or detained.

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