The Lawfare Podcast: A Conversation with James Comey
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 company general counsels "obstructionist weenies." But last week, FBI Director James Comey spoke at the 3rd Annual Cybersecurity Law Institute.
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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 company general counsels "obstructionist weenies." But last week, FBI Director James Comey spoke at the 3rd Annual Cybersecurity Law Institute. The interviewer was Benjamin Powell, former general counsel to the director of national intelligence and currently a partner at WilmerHale. It's a wide-ranging and unusually informative conversation--about ISIS, about cyber threats, about encryption, and about recruiting tech talent to the government.
And yes, Comey really does call big company GCs "obstructionist weenies"---albeit jokingly.
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.
