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Lawfare Live: U.S. Military Conducts Lethal Strike on Venezuelan ‘Drug Boat’

Scott R. Anderson, Rebecca Ingber, Benjamin Wittes
Thursday, September 4, 2025, 11:47 AM

Join the Lawfare team at 2:30 pm ET for a discussion of U.S. military activity in the Caribbean.

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On Sept. 4 at 2:30 pm ET, in a live recording of Lawfare Daily, Lawfare Editor in Chief will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Rebecca Ingber, professor of law at Cardozo Law School, to discuss the U.S. strike on an alleged “drug boat” in Venezuela, the gathering of U.S. troops and warships in the Caribbean, and more.

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Scott R. Anderson is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Fellow in the National Security Law Program at Columbia Law School. He previously served as an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State and as the legal advisor for the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
Rebecca Ingber is​ ​an​ ​Associate Professor of Law​ ​at​ ​BU Law​​. ​She teaches and writes about international law, foreign relations law, national security, war powers, and executive branch decision-making. ​She ​previously ​served ​for six years in the Legal Adviser's Office at the ​U.S. ​Department​ of State​,​ and held fellowships at Columbia Law School and with​ ​the Council on Foreign Relations. She graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School, and clerked for Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr.​,​ of the Southern District of New York.
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.
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