The Lawfare Podcast: A Conversation on Global Intelligence Oversight with Sam Rascoff and Zach Goldman

This week on the show, Zachary Goldman and Samuel Rascoff of the NYU Center on Law and Security discuss their new edited volume, Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twentry-First Century. The book’s contributors take a comparative approach to examining trends in intelligence oversight. And Zach and Sam join Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney—yes, the same Bobby Chesney who last appeared on the Lawfare Podcast on the day of the Zombie Apocalypse—to tease out the book’s chapters on the role of transnational intelligence oversight, the changing nature of judicial oversight, and how the executive too can create intelligence accountability.

Throughout the week, Lawfare hosted a mini-forum in which the book’s contributors discussed their chapters. You can find the pieces below:

• “Global Intelligence Oversight: Governing Security in the Twenty-First Century” – Zachary Goldman and Samuel Rascoff
• “Intelligence Services, Peer Constraints, and the Law” – Ashley Deeks
• “Executive Oversight of Intelligence Agencies in Australia” – Keiran Hardy and George Williams
• “Global Change and Megatrends: Implications for Intelligence and Its Oversight” – Christopher Kojm
• “Why Intelligence Oversight Matters: Congress is Key to a Public Debate” – Jane Harman
• “German Intelligence: Operation Chaos” – Russell A. Miller

*Correction: The voice at the beginning of the podcast is that of Zach Goldman and not Sam Rascoff as indicated.*