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The Fortnight that Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

Victoria Gallegos

Saturday, March 6, 2021, 8:47 AM

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Editor's Note: Because of an error by Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes, The Week That Was took an unscheduled vacation last week. This post thus covers the previous two weeks.

Rohini Kurup and Benjamin Wittes asked if Jan. 6 was an intelligence failure, a police failure or both.

Victoria Gallegos shared a livestream of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on the Jan. 6 insurrection, domestic terrorism and other threats, featuring testimony from Christopher Wray, director of the FBI. And Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast with a no-bull version of Wray’s testimony:

Tia Sewell and Wittes <a /articles>analyzed</a> the questions Wray wasn’t asked during his appearance before the committee. Sewell <a /articles>shared</a> a livestream of the first Senate joint committee hearing on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. Gallegos <a /articles>shared</a> a livestream of the second joint hearing. And Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast with a no-bull version of the second Senate joint hearing: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18198689/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Scott R. Anderson, Joshua Braver and Alan Z. Rozenshtein <a /articles>assessed</a> a new lawsuit filed which seeks to hold former President Trump and others responsible for the Jan. 6 events under a Reconstruction-era statute. Jacob Schulz <a /articles>examined</a> the 2012 trial of the Hutaree militia, the last seditious conspiracy case tried by the Justice Department. Brian C. Kalt <a /articles>analyzed</a> how the Trump impeachment may be a precedent for future late impeachments. Alvaro Marañon <a /articles>shared</a> a livestream of the House Financial Services Subcommittee’s hearing on domestic terrorism financing in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Quinta Jurecic and Bryce Klehm <a /articles>examined</a> the status of the Trump financial document cases. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, featuring a conversation with Rosa Brooks about her book “Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City”: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18149792/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/>Gallegos <a /articles>shared</a> a livestream of the House Appropriations Legislative Subcommitee’s hearing on the fiscal 2022 Capitol Police budget, featuring testimony from Yogananda Pittman, the acting chief of Capitol Police. Sewell <a /articles>shared</a> a livestream of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing of Merrick Garland as next the attorney general. Sewell also <a /articles>shared</a> a livestream of the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on the nomination of William Burns to be the next director of the CIA. And Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, featuring a no bull version of the Garland hearing: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18071777/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Wittes <a /articles>analyzed</a> the Garland hearing and the Republican questions to the attorney general designee. Howell also <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of Rational Security, the “Confirm and Deny” edition: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18083276/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Zia M. Faruqui, Jessie K. Liu and Noha K. Moustafa <a /articles>examined</a> the expanded government authority granted by the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020. Shayan Karbassi <a /articles>explained</a> President Biden’s invocation of the Defense Production Act. John Bellinger <a /articles>analyzed</a> President Biden’s inaugural war powers report. Bill Priestap and Holden Triplett <a /articles>analyzed</a> an assortment of illicit tactics used by foreign intelligence services. Kurup <a /articles>announced</a> an episode of Lawfare Live discussing a new report on restoring federal government ethics and the rule of law: <iframe width="100%" webkitallowfullscreen="true" style="border: 1px solid #EEE;border-radius:3px" src="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/lawfare-live-restoring?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> Harsha Panduranga and Faiza Patel <a /articles>argued</a> that revocation of the Trump administration’s Muslim ban does not make Americans less safe. Sarah Libowsky and Krista Oehlke <a /articles>reviewed</a> President Biden’s executive actions on immigration. William W. Burke-White <a /articles>argued</a> that the Biden administration must adopt new principles for U.S. multilateral diplomacy in face of a new geostrategic environment. Jon Temin <a /articles>argued</a> that civil society should be at the center of foreign policy. Julia Spiegel <a /articles>argued</a> that the Biden administration should embrace foreign affairs federalism. Lester Munson <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of Fault Lines, featuring a conversation with David Gordon, former director of policy planning at the State Department, about foreign policy and the middle class: <iframe width="100%" title="Embed Player" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;" src="https://embed.acast.com/1bd87db4-3737-5a4d-ba8b-25ad635460b2/604181de14af974c15ff0d01" scrolling="no" height="188px" frameborder="0"/> Elliot Setzer <a /articles>discussed</a> the Eighth Circuit’s striking down an Arkansas anti-BDS law. Jessica Rich <a /articles>proposed</a> five reforms the Federal Trade Commission can undertake to increase its reach and effectiveness. Alexandra Klass <a /articles>analyzed</a> the Texas grid failure and offered suggestions on how to avoid similar outcomes in the future. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, in which Klass, law professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and expert on energy law and policy, discusses the Texas energy crisis: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18052856/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> John Costello and Mark Montgomery <a /articles>explained</a> how the newly established national cyber director position will work. Michael Garcia and Patrick Shilo <a /articles>argued</a> that current federal laws and grants are not enough to combat cyber threats. Sewell <a /articles>shared</a> a livestream of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s hearing on the SolarWinds breach. Laura DeNardis and Gordon M. Goldstein <a /articles>argued</a> the real lesson of the Texas power failure: infrastructure unprepared to handle a cyber attack. Stewart Baker <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, entitled “When Will Cyberattacks on the Grid Become the New Normal?”: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18157883/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Baker also <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, titled “NSA’s Pre-History is a Love Story”: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18057980/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Munson also <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of Fault Lines, featuring an interview with Nicole Perlroth, cybersecurity reporter for the New York Time, about her book “This is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race”: <iframe width="100%" src="https://player.acast.com/faultlines/episodes/episode-68" height="110px" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay"/> Randy Milch <a /articles>argued</a> that what’s good for litigation isn’t necessarily good for cybersecurity. Simon Young <a /articles>examined</a> Hong Kong’s High Court review of its new national security law. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, featuring a conversation between Benjamin Wittes and David Hoffman, associate general counsel and global privacy officer for the Intel Corporation, about trust and technology development: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18033575/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Mary Anne Franks <a /articles>examined</a> Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in her paper “Section 230 and the Anti-Social Contract,” published as part of Lawfare’s Digital Social Contract series. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, featuring an interview with Franks, law professor at the University of Miami, about her recent Lawfare <a /articles>paper</a>: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18099557/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Nicol Turner Lee <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of TechTank, featuring a discussion about Section 230 and the regulation of free speech online: <iframe width="100%" src="https://player.acast.com/tech-tank/episodes/should-free-speech-be-regulated-online" height="110px" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay"/> Mark MacCarthy <a /articles>examined</a> the future of Section 230 reform. Abby Lemert <a /articles>analyzed</a> the public comments submitted to the Facebook Oversight Board about its decision to indefinitely ban Donald Trump’s Facebook account. Carly Miller <a /articles>argued</a> that Facebook needs to put all of its policies in one place. Evelyn Douek <a /articles>examined</a> the good and bad parts of Facebook’s response to the Facebook Oversight Board’s first set of decisions. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of Lawfare’s "Arbiters of Truth" series, in which Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Emily Bell, the founding director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School, about journalism in the platform era: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18183062/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of Lawfare’s "Arbiters of Truth" miniseries, in which Lawfare’s Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Rasmus Kleis Nielson, director of the Reuters Institute and professor of political communication at the University of Oxford, about the fight between Australia and Facebook: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18086426/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Munson <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of Fault Lines, titled “JCPOA Redux and FacePlant in Australia”: <iframe width="100%" src="https://player.acast.com/faultlines/episodes/episode-67" height="110px" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay"/> Jordan Schneider <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of ChinaTalk, featuring a conversation about China’s quest for foreign technology: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18090227/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/000000/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Schneider also <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of ChinaTalk in which Aizhe, a founder of a leading Chinese podcast, discusses the state of journalism in modern China: <iframe width="100%" webkitallowfullscreen="" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18119240/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/000000/" scrolling="no" oallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" mozallowfullscreen="" height="90" allowfullscreen=""/> Karman Lucero <a /articles>examined</a> the harm caused by the China Initiative. Elsa Kania and Joe McReynolds <a /articles>argued</a> that the Biden administration should review and rewrite the Trump administration’s China Initiative. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of Rational Security, the “Did I Say ‘Pariah’?” edition: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18180989/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Klehm <a /articles>announced</a> an episode of Lawfare Live, in which Marsin Alshamary, a post-doctoral research fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies Iraqi politics joined Scott Anderson and Benjamin Wittes to answer questions about recent events in Iraq: <iframe width="100%" webkitallowfullscreen="true" style="border: 1px solid #EEE;border-radius:3px" src="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/whats-going-on-in-iraq?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> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, featuring the conversation on Iraq: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/18132635/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Robert Chesney and Steve Vladeck <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the National Security Law Podcast, in which they discuss the recent airstrike in Syria, Islamic State detainees and other national security law topics: <iframe width="100%" src="https://player.blubrry.com/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fnational_security_law_podcast%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fnational_security_law_podcast%2FNSL_Episode_195.mp3&podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nationalsecuritylawpodcast.com%2Fepisode-195-sparkly-rainbow-snowboots%2F#darkOrLight-light&shownotes-ffffff&shownotesBackground-444444&download-ffffff&downloadBackground-003366&subscribe-ffffff&subscribeBackground-fb8c00&share-ffffff&shareBackground-1976d2" scrolling="no" id="blubrryplayer-2" height="138px" frameborder="0" class="blubrryplayer"/> Klehm also <a /articles>shared</a> the declassified U.S. intelligence report which concluded the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of Jamal Khashoggi. Jacob Schulz <a /articles>analyzed</a> the recent conviction of Nicolas Sarkozy, the former president of France. Matthew Kahn <a /articles>announced</a> an online conference on March 1-5, titled “Race and Intersectional Critiques of National Security Law,” co-hosted by the Harvard National Security Journal and the Lieber Institute of Law and Land Warfare at West Point. And Chesney <a /articles>announced</a> the U.S. Cyber Command’s annual legal conference, which occurred virtually on March 4. And that was the fortnight that was.

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Victoria Gallegos is a senior at the University of Mississippi, studying international studies and Spanish. She is an intern at Lawfare.

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