Last week, Brookings convened three policy experts, Michael Doran of the Hudson Institute, Brookings fellows Michael O’Hanlon and Jeremy Shapiro, as well as Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) for the first ever...

This episode features a discussion of jihadi primary sources from June, an interview with Nelly Lahoud, and a new segment: #SocialMedia. This episode covers jihadi primary source releases related to:

This week on Rational Security, senators call for hearings on domestic terrorism in the wake of the Charleston shootings. Do we need a new National Commission on the War on Terrorism? And a cat fight bet...

Our guest for Episode 73 is Rob Knake, currently the Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow for Cyber Policy and formerly with DHS, the White House, and the Richard Clarke finishing school for cybers...

The other day, I gave a talk at the George Mason Law and Economic Center on Jodie Liu and my recent Brookings paper, "The Privacy Paradox: The Privacy Benefits of Privacy Threats." The talk is a light-he...

This week on Rational Security, Kori Schake of the Hoover Institution joins us to discuss whether the shooting of nine people in Charleston, SC, was an act of terrorism, what happens now that Chinese spi...

Charles Lister comes on the show to discuss a wide range of topics related to the current situation in Syria:

James Baker, General Counsel of the FBI, is our guest on this week’s podcast. He fearlessly tackles the FBI’s aerial surveillance capabilities, stingrays, “Going Dark,” encryption, and the bureau’s somet...

Privacy advocates are embracing a recent report recommending that the government require bulk data retention by carriers and perhaps web service providers, exercise extraterritorial jurisdiction over dat...

I am very pleased to announce a new feature on Lawfare and a new feature as well among our staple of podcasts. Some readers probably already follow the excellent Jihadology site, which collects primary s...

It isn't every day that Iranian spies try to recruit you, so it's a special edition of Rational Security, one in which a front group for the Iranian intelligence services make a play for Shane Harris. If...

Welcome to an emergency Jihadology Podcast about the fluid situation amongst Caucasus jihadis in Syria and back at home.

On this week’s Lawfare Podcast, Lawfare Founding Editor Jack Goldsmith and Marty Lederman—Georgetown law professor, Just Security blogger, and former Justice Department official—sat down to discuss the S...

Our guest for Episode 70 of the Cyberlaw Podcast is Dan Kaminsky, a famous cybersecurity researcher who found and helped fix a DNS security flaw.

Welcome to the first episode of the Jihadolgy podcast! The first part of this episode covers primary sources released between May 10th - June 1st:

Tamara is still away, so this week's Rational Security postcast featured special guest Nancy Yousseff of the Daily Beast. She joined Shane and me for a discussion of the USA Freedom Act's passage, Sheldo...

As I announced on Friday, the Lawfare site on I am typing these words will, less than 48 hours from now, be a thing of the past. The site has given yeoman's service. But as they say in Ecclesiastes, ther...

The Jihadology Podcast is almost here! The show will feature analysis of recent jihadi primary source material and interviews with experts in the jihadi studies field. The show is hosted by Aaron Zelin...

Our guest for Episode 69 is Jason Brown, the Assistant to the Special Agent in Charge of the Cyber Intelligence Section at the U.S. Secret Service. We talk about the Secret Service’s Electronic Crimes Ta...

It isn't every day that a former general counsel at one security agency interviews the current head of another security agency. And it really isn't every day that the director of the FBI calls big compan...