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...

Our guests for Episode 68 include Julian Sanchez, senior fellow at the CATO Institute where he studies issues at the busy intersection of technology, privacy, and civil liberties, with a particular focus...

Last May, the Bharatiya Janata Party won the first majority government in India in 25 years, giving newly minted Prime Minister Narendra Modi a broad mandate to initiate much needed reforms in the countr...

Our guest for Episode 67 is Dan Geer, a legendary computer security commentator and current CISO for In-Q-Tel. We review Dan’s recommendations for improving computer security, including mandatory reporti...

For months, the world has been transfixed by the apparent brutality of the Islamic State's practices in war. The beheading of journalists, the burning of prisoners and the enslavement of religious minori...

The Triple Entente Beer Summit was a great success, with an audience that filled the Washington Firehouse loft and a cast that mashed up the Lawfare Podcast, Rational Security, and the Steptoe Cyberlaw P...