Armed Conflict

Lawfare Daily: A New Database of Possible U.S. War Crimes, with Madeleine Baran and Parker Yesko

Tyler McBrien, Madeleine Baran, Parker Yesko, Jen Patja
Friday, November 15, 2024, 8:00 AM
Discussing the New Yorker’s In the Dark podcast.

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Madeleine Baran and Parker Yesko, investigative reporters with the New Yorker’s In the Dark podcast, join Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien to discuss In the Dark: Season 3, which tells the story of a small group of Marines who killed 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, on Nov. 19, 2005.

They also discussed “The War Crimes That the Military Buried,” a new database of possible American war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan, which Baran and Yesko compiled over the course of their four-year investigation. 

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Tyler McBrien is the managing editor of Lawfare. He previously worked as an editor with the Council on Foreign Relations and a Princeton in Africa Fellow with Equal Education in South Africa, and holds an MA in international relations from the University of Chicago.
Madeleine Baran is an American investigative journalist and host of "In the Dark" from The New Yorker and Condé Nast Entertainment.
Parker Yesko is a reporter for The New Yorker's investigative podcast In the Dark.
Jen Patja is the editor and producer of the Lawfare Podcast and Rational Security. She currently serves as the Co-Executive Director of Virginia Civics, a nonprofit organization that empowers the next generation of leaders in Virginia by promoting constitutional literacy, critical thinking, and civic engagement. She is the former Deputy Director of the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison's Montpelier and has been a freelance editor for over 20 years.

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