Sat, 6 July 2013
Raffaela Wakeman interviews Covington & Burling partner Mark Plotkin on private sector national security law.
Direct download: Episode_35--Mark_Plotkin_of_Covington__Burling_on_Private_Sector_National_Security_Law.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:12pm EDT |
Fri, 28 June 2013
For a week last June, Ben was hanging out in Bangkok, at the International Military Law and Operations (MILOPS) Conference. 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 thirty-fourth episode in our Lawfare Podcast series.
Direct download: Episode_34--Alan_Liotta_Speaks_at_MILOPS.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 1:04pm EDT |
Tue, 4 June 2013
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 began, and the discussion that followed covered the different Islamist movements in the region, as well as the lessons Tunisia’s revolution can teach us about prospects for successful democratic transitions elsewhere in the Arab world.
Direct download: Episode_33--An_Address_by_Rached_Ghannouchi.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:14pm EDT |
Tue, 28 May 2013
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 evidence derived from torture; Ruiz's own background; his experience as capital defense counsel in history's most closely-watched terrorism case; and the burdens on commission defense lawyers.
Direct download: Episode_32--A_Discussion_With_9-11_Case_Defense_Lawyer_CDR_Walter_Ruiz_.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 7:12am EDT |
Tue, 14 May 2013
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.
Direct download: Episode_31--Ben_Emmerson_Talks_about_His_Investigation.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:23pm EDT |
Fri, 10 May 2013
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.
Direct download: Episode_30--Wittes_at_Parliament_of_Drones_and_Guantanamo.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 3:23pm EDT |
Tue, 23 April 2013
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.
Direct download: Episode_29--Philip_Mudd_on_the_Past_and_Future_of_Counterterrorism.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 10:07am EDT |
Wed, 10 April 2013
On April 4, the National Security Law Society at Georgetown Law Center held a panel discussion on the “Legal and Ethical Implications of Autonomous Weapons.” It featured Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch, Missy Cummings, Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and Benjamin Wittes of the Brookings Institution. The panel was moderated by Shane Harris of Washington magazine.
Direct download: Episode_27--A_Discussion_of_Autonomous_Weapons.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 12:22pm EDT |
Sat, 16 February 2013
Episode #27: Afghan Presidential Candidate Fawzia Koofi Speaks on the Taliban and Women in Afghanistan
Lawfare's Alan Rozenshtein interviews Afghan Presidential Candidate Fawzia Koofi on the Taliban and Women in Afghanistan
Direct download: Episode_27--Afghan_Presidential_Candidate_Fawzia_Koofi_on_the_Taliban_and_Women_in_Afghanistan.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 2:31pm EDT |
Mon, 28 January 2013
Osama bin Laden may have been the most notorious face of al-Qaeda before his death, but a terrorist by the name of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi arguably had far more blood on his hands—and for years was enemy number one for the United States government. Running the al-Qaeda franchise in Iraq, Zarqawi and his followers usurped the Sunni insurgency and through vicious attacks on Iraqi civilians stoked a civil war pitting Sunnis and Shiites against each other. His damage was so great that even after American special operators, intelligence experts and Air Force pilots successfully tracked down and killed Zarqawi in June 2006, General Stanley McChrystal wrote in his newly published memoir My Share of the Task (Penguin Group USA, 2013) that it was “too late. He bequeathed Iraq a sectarian paranoia and an incipient civil war.” Nevertheless, the special operations machine built to defeat Zarqawi’s network continued to run full tilt, eventually having a strategic impact when married to the full-spectrum counterinsurgency and diplomatic pressures of "the surge."
Direct download: Episode_26--Stanley_McChystal_Speaks_at_Brookings_on_the_Evolution_of_JSOC.mp3
Category:general -- posted at: 5:10pm EDT |