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On Thursday, February 17th, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco delivered the keynote address at the Munich Cyber Security Conference 2022. She spoke about past enforcement actions against cyber criminals, including the seizure of ransomware payments and other hacks, the FBI’s Virtual Asset Exploitation Unit, the DOJ’s appointment of former AUSA Eun Young Choi as director of the DOJ’s nationa...

On Wednesday February 9th, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the legal and human costs of U.S. drone strikes. The committee heard from five witnesses including Hina Shamsi, Director of the National Security Project at the ACLU; Radhya al-Mutawakel, Chairperson of the Mwatana for Human Rights in Yemen; Stephen Pomper, Chief of Policy at the International Crisis Group; Retired Air For...

On Tuesday, January 11th, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism facing our nation, one year after the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The hearing included testimonies from Matthew Olsen, Assistant Attorney General in the National Security Division of the Department of Justice and Jill Sanborn, Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch of t...

On January 6th 2022, President Joe Biden spoke in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, to commemorate the attack that happened there one year ago. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On January 5th 2022, the eve of the first anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a speech reviewing the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the attack on the Capitol. He also promised that the DOJ will do everything in its power to defend American people and American democracy and confirmed that the depart...

On the evening of December 13th, the House Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riot unanimously passed a motion to hold former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in criminal contempt of Congress. The vote stemmed from a 51-page report that laid out the case against Meadows, who refused to testify in front of the committee and defied a subpoena to hand over records that could...

President Biden delivered closing remarks at the Virtual Summit for Democracy on December 10th. During the two-day event, he met with global leaders to discuss issues ranging from COVID-19, voting rights, the climate crisis and cybersecurity. This event was the first of two, with the second planned to take place one year from now. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On December 7th, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing addressing the controversial topic of closing Guantanamo, 20 years after the September 11th attacks. The committee heard from six witnesses including Brigadier General John Baker, Chief Defense Counsel for Military Commissions; Retired Major General Michael Lehnert; Katya Jestin, Co-Managing Partner at Jenner and Block; Colleen Kelly,...

Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Energy, the Environment and Cyber met to discuss climate change in the Arctic. The virtual hearing, led by Chair William R. Keating, heard from four expert witnesses who explained the national security, environmental and societal impacts that global warming poses to the Arctic. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Saturday, November 13th, 190 nations decided on a deal to reduce global emissions. John Kerry, the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, spoke at the COP26 summit after the agreement, stressing that compromise on a range of issues was necessary to reach a deal that benefits everyone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Wednesday, November 3, 2021, at 9:30 AM ET, the House Intelligence Counterterrorism, Counterintelligence, and Counterproliferation Subcommittee will hold an open hearing on countering domestic terrorism with The Honorable John Cohen, Senior Official Performing the Duties of the under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and Mr. Timothy Langan, Assistant...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday, November 8th, in a case involving the surveillance of Muslim communities as part of a post-9/11 FBI operation. The central issue of the case revolves around whether or not the surveillance violated the Constitution - or if a provision of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) will allow it to continue. Yassir Fazaga is one of the three in...

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held an open hearing on Wednesday. The committee focused on diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility within intelligence agencies.  Leaders within this community, including Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Director of the CIA William Burns and Director of the NSA General Paul M Nakasone, spoke at length about how they'r...

On October 27th, Attorney General Merrick Garland testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The week before, he also took questions during an oversight hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.  The hearings focused on a memo that AG Garland sent to the FBI, asking them to investigate threats against school board officials. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last Wednesday in a case testing the limits of public disclosure about the CIA's secret torture program after the Sept. 11 attacks. The central issue of the case concerns whether a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who has never been charged with a crime can subpoena testimony from the CIA contractors who supervised his torture. Abu Zubaydah was the first pri...

Produced and hosted by Aspen Digital, the 2021 Aspen Cyber Summit provides one of the most significant stages for discussions around cybersecurity policy, strategy, and operations. The theme of this year's Summit is systemic cyber risk, as leaders in government and industry attempt to understand and control the most dangerous sources of cyber risk that allow adversaries to inflict damage at a regi...

The Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security held testimony from Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, focusing on the potential harms posed to children by social media platforms. Haugen released tens of thousands of pages of leaked internal documents, which she contends show how Facebook has been negligent toward the harm it causes. The hearing cover...

The Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony today from top Pentagon officials about the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley and Commander of the United States Central Command Gen. Kenneth McKenzie faced questions about the Biden administration’s plan for conducting counterterrorism missions in the...

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to examine the landscape 20 years after 9/11, focusing on threats to the homeland w/ DHS Secretary Mayorkas, FBI Director Wray, and NCTC Director Christine Abizaid. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On today's Lawfare No Bull, President Biden gives his first address before the United Nations General Assembly and discusses an array of issues, including the coronavirus pandemic and the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. His speech aims to reassure other nations of American leadership on the world stage and to encourage intensive diplomacy by calling on allies to act quickly and coopera...

It's Lawfare No Bull Australia, the United States and Britain have jointly announced a new trilateral security partnership that will see Australia scrap a multi-billion dollar program to build French-designed submarines and build a nuclear-powered fleet with U.S. and British technology instead. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Secretary of State Anthony Blinken faces the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over the withdrawal from Afghanistan. We took out the speechifying and the grandstanding and included just the questions and answers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Former President George W. Bush speaks at Shanksville, Pennsylvania on the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.