Lawfare currently hosts four podcasts, one produced by our staff (The Lawfare Podcast), and three produced independently (Rational Security, Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, and The Jihadology Podcast). On this page, you can browse and listen to all of the podcasts we host.
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Fresh off a redeye from Israel, I interview Matthew Green of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute. The crew also discusses Russian intrusion into the U.S. election, EU privacy regulations, and more.
A discussion with Shane Harris of the Wall Street Journal, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center Matthew Olsen, and Lawfare's own Susan Hennessey, Timothy Edgar, and Carrie Cordero on the relationship between the intelligence community and the next administration.
The CIA concludes that Russian hackers tried to help Donald Trump get elected. Trump will nominate Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson as the next secretary of state. And the Obama administration is confident that journalist Austin Tice, held hostage in Syria, is alive.
Too busy to read the 100-page Presidential Commission on Enhancing National Security report on what the next administration should do about cybersecurity? No worries. Episode 142 features a surprisingly contentious but highly informative dialog about the report with Kiersten Todt, the commission’s executive director—along with a discussion of Russian hacking, U.S. v. Mohamed Mohamud, DHS, and net neutrality.
This week at the Hoover Book Soiree, Jack Goldsmith interviewed Christopher Moran, a professor at the University of Warwick, on his book Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, and the CIA.
The president-elect takes a call from the leader of Taiwan. Bipartisan pressure is mounting in Congress to investigate the Russian hacks of the presidential election. And if you’re a wonk in Washington, you may be out in the cold. Plus, Shane says you should hire Justin Lynch, who was just tossed out of South Sudan. Tamara says you should really read Newt Gingrich’s tweets. Susan gives a shout out to NPR’s Asma Khalid. And I, or my voice anyway, have a secret admirer.
This week, Rihanna and Maury Shenk guide us through the Umbrella Agreement between the U.S. and EU and we chat with Scott Charney, Corporate Vice President for Trustworthy Computing at Microsoft, about the international pressures on technology companies.
Charlie Savage and Bobby Chesney come on the podcast to discuss Charlie's New York Times story with Eric Schmitt and Mark Mazzetti on the Obama administration's expanded understanding of the AUMF against al-Shabaab.
President-Elect Trump is zeroing in on a nominee for secretary of state. Election recounts begin amid fears of computer hacking. And in San Francisco, hackers hold the municipal railway system hostage.
Episode 140 features long-time New York Times reporter, John Markoff, on the past and future of artificial intelligence and its ideological converse—the effort to make machines that augment rather than replace human beings. Plus, EU-wide crypto controls, an FBI child pornography investigation, and election hacking.