Latest Lawfare Podcast Episodes
The Pentagon’s Alliance with the Country Music Industry with Joseph Thompson
Chatter - April 11, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsFor decades, country music has had a close and special relationship to the U.S. military. In his new book, Cold War Country, historian Joseph Thompson shows how the leaders of Nashville’s Music Row found ways to sell their listeners on military service, at the same time they sold country music t...
Why Foreign Policy Elites Matter with Elizabeth Saunders
Chatter - April 04, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsThe "deep state." The "blob." Foreign policy elites are often so labeled, misunderstood, and denigrated. But what influence on presidents and on public opinion do they actually have? Elizabeth Saunders, professor of political science at Columbia, has researched this topic deeply and written abo...
Nuclear War: A Scenario with Annie Jacobsen
Chatter - March 28, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsWithout warning, North Korea launches a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile at the United States. American satellites detect the launch within seconds, setting off a frantic, harrowing sequence of events that threatens to engulf the planet in a nuclear holocaust. That’s the terrif...
From Right-Wing Radio to the Heart of the Never Trump Movement, with Charlie Sykes
Chatter - March 21, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsCharlie Sykes recently stepped down as host of the Bulwark Podcast. He's a regular commentator on MSNBC, and has written a number of books. He tells the story here of his political journey, from being a page for the Wisconsin delegation at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, to be...
Margaret Mead, Psychedelics, and the CIA with Benjamin Breen
Chatter - March 14, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsIf you’re listening to this podcast, chances are you’ve heard stories about the CIA’s experiments with drugs, particularly LSD, during the infamous MKUltra program. But you may not know that the characters involved in that dubious effort connect to one of the 20th Century’s most famous and rever...
Spy Disguises in Fact and Fiction with Jonna Mendez
Chatter - March 07, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsJonna Mendez advanced in her Central Intelligence Agency career to become Chief of Disguise despite the many institutional challenges to women's promotions. And now she has written a memoir, In True Face, about it all. David Priess spoke with Jonna about career options for women at CIA in the ...
The Moon, Tides, and National Security with Rebecca Boyle
Chatter - February 29, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsWe all know how superpower competition spurred one giant leap for mankind on the lunar surface in July 1969. But the story of how the Moon and its tides affect national security is deeper and wider than most of us realize. David Priess explored this intersection with science journalist Rebecca ...
President Biden’s Foreign Policy with Alex Ward
Chatter - February 22, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsJoe Biden took office with a big ambition: To repair America’s reputation abroad and set the country on a new path, where foreign policy would be crafted with the middle class in mind. So writes journalist Alexander Ward, whose new book, The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore American Forei...
Life and Death in Ukraine with Journalist Christopher Miller
Chatter - February 15, 2024 08:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsIn February 2022, Russia launched a full scale invasion into Ukraine in the largest attack on a European country since World War II. This invasion did not start a new war, but escalated the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War that started in 2014 when Russian forces captured Crimea and invaded the Donet...
Michael Roman’s Motion Hearing to Push for Fulton County’s D.A. Fani Willis’s Removal From The Case
Lawfare No Bull - February 14, 2024 18:43 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOn February 12th, 2024, Judge Scott McAfee held a motions hearing in Fulton County Superior Court. The hearing centered on several motions to quash filed by individuals who received subpoenas to testify or produce documents ahead of an evidentiary hearing on whether district attorney Fani Willis ...
The Global Citizenship Industry with Kristin Surak
Chatter - February 08, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsSome people call it "investor citizenship" while others label it a "passport for sale" scheme. Either way, the last few decades have seen the global citizenship industry grow and evolve in ways that both reflect and impact issues around national sovereignty, tax regimes, international business, ...
The Long History of US Foreign Disaster Aid, with Julia Irwin
Chatter - February 01, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsAmerican aid to global victims of natural disasters might seem like a relatively new phenomenon, perhaps linked to the Marshall Plan and other major programs in the past several decades. But US efforts to assist those suffering from earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, major flooding, and ...
"A City on Mars," with Dr. Kelly and Zach Weinersmith
Chatter - January 25, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsOuter space is back in style. For the first time in decades, NASA is sending astronauts back to the moon. Millionaires are exiting the atmosphere on a regular basis. And Elon Musk says humans may land on Mars to set up settlements by 2030. But would mastering space be worth it? In their new boo...
Nuclear Launch Authority in Myth and Reality, with Hans Kristensen
Chatter - January 18, 2024 08:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsLloyd Austin's hospitalization and delayed communication about it have spurred much commentary and questions about the role of the secretary of defense in the US nuclear-strike chain of command. David Priess spoke with Hans Kristensen, Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federati...
Israel Makes Oral Arguments Countering South Africa’s Genocide Claims in the ICJ
Lawfare No Bull - January 17, 2024 14:52 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOn Jan. 12, Israel delivered oral arguments rejecting South Africa’s claims of Israeli genocide in Gaza in the International Court of Justice (ICJ). In South Africa v. Israel, South Africa alleges that Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza has violated the 1948 Convention Against Genocide. At this...
ICJ Hears South Africa’s Oral Arguments in Genocide Case Against Israel
Lawfare No Bull - January 12, 2024 22:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOn Jan. 11, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) held a public hearing in the case of South Africa v. Israel, on whether Israel is committing acts of genocide in Gaza. In its first public hearing of the case, the ICJ heard the South African legal delegation’s oral arguments, in which they al...
“The Day After” and Dad with A. B. Stoddard
Chatter - January 11, 2024 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsBrandon Stoddard was one of the most accomplished executives in broadcast television history. In his career at ABC, he helped bring to the small screen such legendary mini-series as “Roots” and “The Winds of War,” as well as the acclaimed television series “Moonlighting” and “Roseanne.” But argu...
Lessons from the Decade of Mass Protests, with Vincent Bevins
Chatter - January 04, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsFrom the protests in Brazil initially focused on bus fares to the protests in Hong Kong seeking to stop an extradition bill to the protests across the Middle East now collectively referred to as the "Arab Spring," the political and economic mass demonstrations from 2010 to 2020 made it a decade ...
Chatter Archive: Spy Movies with John Sipher
Chatter - December 28, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsThis week, we're taking time off for the holidays, so we reached into the Chatter archives for one of our favorites. In this episode from January 13, 2022, Shane Harris and David Priess teamed up to talk with John Sipher, a former senior intelligence officer who has gone Hollywood. With his par...
Secrecy and Transparency in Early America, with Katlyn Carter
Chatter - December 21, 2023 08:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsModern representative democracy was born in darkness. Transparency in representative bodies can spur unintended consequences for freedom, while secrecy in those bodies can lead to optimal outcomes for the public. These are uncomfortable truths that emerge from the history of the US and French r...
The Ghost Army of World War II with Journalist Rick Beyer
Chatter - December 14, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsIn the summer of 1944, a group of artists, visual designers and sound engineers--all of them GIs--began a series of secret operations in occupied France. Their mission: to deceive German forces about the location and size of U.S. military units, using a combination of inflatable vehicles, sound ...
Oral Arguments in Colorado Section 3 Appeal
Lawfare No Bull - December 08, 2023 21:55 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOn Dec. 6, the Colorado Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the appeal of the Denver District Court decision that found that former President Donald Trump “engaged in insurrection” but could not be disqualified from primary and general election ballots in Colorado because of the language of Sec...
World War I and Intelligence in American Memory, with Mark Stout
Chatter - December 07, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsWorld War I was a seminal event for American national security and foreign policy, as the United States deployed nearly two million soldiers and sailors to Europe and engaged in the most intense overseas combat in its history up to that point. Yet the development of modern American intelligence ...
FBI Director Wray Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Committee
Lawfare No Bull - December 06, 2023 16:50 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOn Dec. 5, FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in a hearing entitled “Oversight of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.” The committee questioned Wray about FISA Section 702 reauthorization, sextortion and child sexual exploitation, the rise in hat...
Six Hours Worth of Motions Arguments in Fulton County
Lawfare No Bull - December 05, 2023 21:30 - 5 hours ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOn Dec. 1 in Fulton County, Judge Scott McAfee heard arguments from the State and several of the 15 defendants on a number of motions related to First Amendment concerns, the scheduling of an eventual trial, discovery matters, and general and special demurrers. Judge McAfee did not immediately ru...
Harrison Floyd’s Bond Revocation Hearing
Lawfare No Bull - November 30, 2023 18:39 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOn Nov. 21, in a hearing in Fulton County, Judge Scott McAfee heard arguments on whether Harrison Floyd, the former leader of a group called Black Voices for Trump, should have his bail revoked for using X, formerly known as Twitter, to indirectly communicate with witnesses. Judge McAfee determin...
Coups and Counterintelligence with Peter Strzok
Chatter - November 30, 2023 13:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsPeter Strzok is a former United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agent. He was the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division and led the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. He speaks with Ben Wittes about the numerous places...
D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Hears Gag Order Arguments
Lawfare No Bull - November 22, 2023 17:15 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOn Nov. 20, the three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on the gag order imposed on former President Donald J. Trump by Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in the Jan. 6 case. The three judge panel pressed Trump’s lawyer, D. John Sauer, on whether any limit can be imposed ...
The JFK Assassination and Conspiracy Culture, with Gerald Posner
Chatter - November 22, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 130 ratingsSixty years ago today in Dallas, Texas, Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President John Kennedy. For almost as long, various (often contradictory) conspiracy theories about that day have been circulating. Gerald Posner used overwhelming evidence and logic to dismantle these theories in his clas...
Hearing on Proposed Protective Orders for Fulton County Discovery
Lawfare No Bull - November 17, 2023 20:45 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 30 ratingsOn Nov. 15, Judge Scott McAfee heard arguments from defendants in the Fulton County election interference case on the State’s emergency motion for a protective order and defendant David Shafer’s response in opposition and proposed protective order. The State had proposed a blanket protective orde...
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