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The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne

Monday, July 26, 2021, 11:27 AM

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Alexandra Stark assessed President Biden’s policy toward Yemen to encourage peace and stability.

Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in Benjamin Wittes talked to Scott Anderson about the current U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and past withdrawal from Iraq:

Peter Margulies <a /articles>explained</a> the recent federal court ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Alvaro Marañon <a /articles>shared</a> the Justice Department’s indictment of four Chinese nationals engaged in a global hacking campaign, a joint cybersecurity advisory from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the FBI and the White House’s statement on Chinese cyber aggression. Bryce Klehm <a /articles>posted</a> Attorney General Merrick Garland’s memorandum providing new guidance “obtaining information, or records of, members of the news media” by the Justice Department. Scott Anderson <a /articles>shared</a> the Justice Department’s redacted copy of a March 2020 Office of Legal Counsel memorandum providing the legal rationale behind the controversial Jan. 2, 2020, drone strike that killed Major General Qassem Soleimani. Jordan Schneider <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of ChinaTalk in which he and Chris Miller, assistant professor at Tufts University, discuss their new report, “<a href="https://chinatalk.substack.com/p/labs-over-fabs-risc-vs-promise">Labs over Fabs</a>”: <iframe width="100%" title="Embed Player" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="https://embed.acast.com/ddcea2e7-1bbb-4ca7-901b-5060a08145bf/955601bf-32be-4d7f-a00d-4d8761e1bd53" scrolling="no" height="188px" frameborder="0"/> Quinta Jurecic <a /articles>explained</a> the importance of the House of Representatives’s Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which Wittes talked to Matt Tait, chief operating officer of Corellium, and Dmitri Alperovitch, founder of the Silverado Policy Accelerator and former chief technology officer of CrowdStrike, about the latest news in cybersecurity: <iframe width="100%" title="Embed Player" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="https://embed.acast.com/db70e2ba-3685-51cc-a106-97ac84d5ae4e/60f61a89fb28380014c4d8c6" scrolling="no" height="188px" frameborder="0"/> Stewart Baker <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast which covers President Biden’s response to the Microsoft ransomware attack, the Israel firm that collected private phone numbers and more: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/19869773/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Justin Sherman <a /articles>explained</a> the U.S. policy toward Huawei during the Biden administration. Christiana Wayne <a /articles>announced</a> this week’s episode of Lawfare Live in which Quinta Jurecic, senior editor at Lawfare, gave a live presentation on the prospects for reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act: <iframe width="100%" webkitallowfullscreen="true" style="border: 1px solid #EEE;border-radius:3px" src="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/lawfare-lecture-quinta?navlinks=false&embed=true" mozallowfullscreen="true" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" height="800" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" allow="microphone; camera;"/><a style="color: #aaa; font-family: 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;text-decoration: none;display: block;text-align: center;font-size: 13px;padding: 5px 0" ng-href="https://www.crowdcast.io/?utm_source=embed&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=embed">powered by Crowdcast</a> Bob Bauer<a /articles> reviewed</a> Elie Honig’s new book, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hatchet-Man-Prosecutors-Corrupted-Department/dp/0063092360/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1626377746&sr=8-1">Hatchet Man</a>,” about former Attorney General Bill Barr. Klehm <a /articles>posted</a> the Justice Department’s indictment of Thomas Barrack, a former advisor to the 2016 Trump Campaign, on charges of acting as an agent of a foreign government. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which Elisabeth Kendall, a senior research fellow at Pembroke College of Oxford University, and Alexandra Stark, a senior researcher at New America, talk to Lawfare COO David Priess about signs of hope in Yemen: <iframe width="100%" title="Embed Player" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="https://embed.acast.com/db70e2ba-3685-51cc-a106-97ac84d5ae4e/60f7919d940526001311ca88" scrolling="no" height="188px" frameborder="0"/> Asaf Lubin and João Marinotti <a /articles>discussed</a> the issues in current jurisprudence dealing with cybercrime. Jordan Schneider <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of ChinaTalk featuring a discussion from Andrew Sosanya of the Day One Project, Adam Marblestone of Schmidt Futures and Orin Hoffman of The Engine: <iframe width="100%" title="Embed Player" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="https://embed.acast.com/ddcea2e7-1bbb-4ca7-901b-5060a08145bf/a97202f5-af67-4649-a636-98ce9a99abfc" scrolling="no" height="188px" frameborder="0"/> Dmitri Alperovitch and Ian Ward <a /articles>discussed</a> the Biden administration’s response to Chinese cybercrimes. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> the final episode of Rational Security: <iframe width="100%" title="Embed Player" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="https://embed.acast.com/ad9e722c-f2b7-4acf-9a2b-67571aa4eb03/60f8ad7822cd930013f708a9" scrolling="no" height="188px" frameborder="0"/> Howell also <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which Jurecic and Evelyn Douek talk to Renee DiResta, the research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, and Brendan Nyhan, professor of government at Dartmouth College, about the showdown between Facebook and the White House over vaccine misinformation in this week’s installment of "Arbiters of Truth": <iframe width="100%" title="Embed Player" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="https://embed.acast.com/db70e2ba-3685-51cc-a106-97ac84d5ae4e/60f8ffcc0f0a3600123a477a" scrolling="no" height="188px" frameborder="0"/> Baker and Klehm <a /articles>discussed</a> the implications of the FBI’s ANOM project that ensnared hundreds of criminals through encrypted cell phones. Gabriel Band <a /articles>analyzed</a> the challenges of countering online foreign covert influence. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which Steve Vladeck, a Lawfare contributing editor and a professor at the University of Texas, and Latif Nasser, a co-host of the show Radiolab from New York Public Radio, talk about the latest developments out of Guantanamo Bay: <iframe width="100%" title="Embed Player" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="https://embed.acast.com/db70e2ba-3685-51cc-a106-97ac84d5ae4e/60fa4e955d2483001227319a" scrolling="no" height="188px" frameborder="0"/> And Libby Lange and Doowan Lee <a /articles>discussed</a> how the Chinese government uses manufactured whistleblowing to subvert the Taiwanese government. And that was the week that was.

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