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The Week that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne

Sunday, August 1, 2021, 4:30 PM

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Alex Wilner, Casey Babb and Jessica Davis considered the future of artificial intelligence-enabled deterrence.

Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker discuss their new book, “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year”:

Nicol Turner Lee <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of TechTank that covers privacy, equity and access of coronavirus vaccines: <iframe width="100%" title="Embed Player" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="https://embed.acast.com/396ccbb2-ec84-5ea2-9c4f-b0d52b3ab1cf/60fe41e1709b3700137287db" scrolling="no" height="188px" frameborder="0"/> Bryce Klehm <a /articles>posted</a> Attorney General Merrick Garland’s new guidelines on the Department of Justice’s communications with the White House. Lindsey Barrett, Laura Moy, Paul Ohm and Ashkan Soltani <a /articles>considered</a> the effects of the Federal Trade Commission’s outdated conflict-of-interest rules. Genevieve Lakier <a /articles>discussed</a> the constitutional questions arising from informal government coercion. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of Lawfare Podcast in which Executive Editor Scott R. Anderson talked to Jonathan Schroden, director of the Countering Threats and Challenges Program at the nonprofit research and analysis organization CNA, about the Afghanistan withdrawal: <iframe width="100%" src="https://embed.acast.com/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c/jonathan-schroden-on-the-state-of-the-afghanistan-withdrawal" height="110px" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay"/> Michel Paradis <a /articles>explained</a> the Senate debate over reforming the military justice system to combat the prevelance of sexual assault in the military. Christiana Wayne <a /articles>posted</a> a livestream of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol’s first hearing, during which members heard testimony from Capitol and D.C. Metropolitan Police officers. Ajay Sarma <a /articles>shared</a> the Justice Department’s authorization of former Trump administration officials to testify before Congress, rejecting claims of executive privilege. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which Brookings senior fellow Molly Reynolds and Quinta Jurecic discuss the House select committee’s first hearing investigating the events of Jan. 6: <iframe width="100%" src="https://embed.acast.com/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c/quinta-jurecic-and-molly-reynolds-on-the-first-jan-6-hearing" height="110px" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay"/> Nick Frisch<a /articles> considered</a> the future of United States policy toward Taiwan as tensions rise over the island. Wayne <a /articles>announced</a> this week’s Lawfare Live, during which Reynolds and Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein joined Scott Anderson to discuss the House select committee’s first hearing regarding the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol and civil litigation relating to the attack: <iframe width="100%" webkitallowfullscreen="true" style="border: 1px solid #EEE;border-radius:3px" src="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/whats-going-on-with-jan-?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> Howell <a /articles>shared</a> a comic final episodelet of Rational Security in which Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes considers the future of the podcast's feed and discusses the House select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 attack with his two remaining friends: <iframe width="100%" src="https://embed.acast.com/60427f9d34b9a27f4b6e3a8d/the-im-ok-without-friends-edition" height="110px" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay"/> Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which Jurecic and Evelyn Douek discussed social media’s role in warning of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in the latest edition in the "Arbiters of Truth" series: <iframe width="100%" src="https://embed.acast.com/60518a52f69aa815d2dba41c/the-fbi-social-media-and-jan-6" height="110px" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay"/> Jordan Schneider <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of ChinaTalk in which he interviewed Tobias Harris of the Center for American Progress about the latter's new biography of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Iconoclast-Shinzo-Abe-New-Japan/dp/1787383105">The Iconoclast</a>”: <iframe width="100%" title="Embed Player" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="https://embed.acast.com/ddcea2e7-1bbb-4ca7-901b-5060a08145bf/5308b1a9-e68b-47f1-b475-aff5d489fdee" scrolling="no" height="188px" frameborder="0"/> Abby Lemert and Eleanor Runde <a /articles>discussed</a> the international coalition that accused China of the Microsoft ransomware attack, the Justice Department’s decision to drop charges against Chinese academics and more in this week’s SinoTech. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which Sarah Yerkes, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an expert on Tunisia, talked about the latest developments in Tunisia: <iframe width="100%" title="Embed Player" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="https://embed.acast.com/db70e2ba-3685-51cc-a106-97ac84d5ae4e/61034a823fc854001a0282e6" scrolling="no" height="188px" frameborder="0"/> Sharan Grewal <a /articles>explained</a> President Kais Saied’s power grab in Tunisia. Sarma <a /articles>posted</a> the Office of Legal Counsel’s decision that holding that the Treasury Department is obligated to provide Congress with the former President Trump’s tax returns. And Klehm <a /articles>posted</a> notes written by a former Justice Department official that detail former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election obtained by the House Oversight and Reform Committee. And that was the week that was.

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