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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 77 days 4 hours 10 minutes
Episode #39: Laura Dean on the Bloodbath in Egypt
Ben interviews Laura Dean, Lawfare's Cairo Diarist, about the coup in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood, and freelancing the revolution.
Episode #37--Tools and Tradeoffs: Confronting U.S. Citizen Terrorist Suspects Abroad
Daniel Byman of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Ben Wittes of the Governance Studies program at Brookings launched their report entitled “.” The paper describes the wide range of tools the United States has employed in dealing...
Episode #36--Robert Litt on Privacy and Intelligence Collection
Robert LItt, general counsel of the ODNI, speaks at the Brookings Institution on Privacy and Intelligence Collection.
Episode #35: Mark Plotkin on Private Sector National Security Law
Raffaela Wakeman interviews Covington & Burling partner Mark Plotkin on private sector national security law.
Episode #34: Alan Liotta Speaks at MILOPS
For a week last June, Ben was . While there, he took in an interesting and important address by Alan Liotta, a senior Defense Department official with responsibilities for worldwide detention policy. Liotta's remarks constitute the...
Episode #33--An Address by Rached Ghannouchi
The Brookings Institution hosted Rached Ghannouchi, co-founder and president of Tunisia's Nahda Party, for an address on the future of Tunisian democracy. His remarks centered around the progress the country has made since the Arab awakening...
Episode #32: A Discussion with 9-11 Case Defense Lawyer CDR Walter Ruiz
This week, Lawfare sat down with CDR Walter Ruiz, a lawyer for accused 9-11 co-conspirator Mustafa al-Hawsawi. Our discussion touched on, among other things: the fairness of military commission rules; Ruiz's contention that those rules allow...
Episode #31: Special Edition: UN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson Discusses His Investigation of Drone Strikes
Benjamin Wittes and Ritika Singh interview Ben Emmerson about his investigation.
Episode #30: Benjamin Wittes Gives a Talk at Parliament on Whether Drones are the New Guantanamo
Lawfare's editor in chief, Benjamin Wittes, gives a talk at the Palace of Westminster--sponsored by the Henry Jackson Society--on whether drones are becoming the new Guantanamo.
Episode #29: Former CIA and FBI Counterterrorism Official Philip Mudd Interviewed at Brookings by Bruce Riedel
Brookings Senior Fellow Bruce Riedel interviews before an audience Philip Mudd, former CIA and FBI counterterrorism official and author of a new book on the the hunt for Al Qaeda.