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Lawfare Live, The Now: Anna Bower's Signal Exchange with Lindsey Halligan

Benjamin Wittes, Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 7:02 PM
At 8pm ET watch Benjamin Wittes and Anna Bower discuss Bower's new article. 

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At 8 pm ET on Oct. 20, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower to discuss her article about how interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan reached out to her on Signal—and the conversation that followed.

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Anna Bower is a senior editor at Lawfare. Anna holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Cambridge and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. She joined Lawfare as a recipient of Harvard’s Sumner M. Redstone Fellowship in Public Service. Prior to law school, Anna worked as a judicial assistant for a Superior Court judge in the Northeastern Judicial Circuit of Georgia. She also previously worked as a Fulbright Fellow at Anadolu University in Eskişehir, Turkey. A native of Georgia, Anna is based in Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
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