A Conversation on Domestic Intelligence with Kenneth Wainstein
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
On September 19, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, Kenneth Wainstein, gave a speech at the Brookings Institution on the current threat environment and the role of the Department of Homeland Security's Intelligence and Analysis Office (I&A) in confronting it. Following the speech, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes and Wainstein sat down for a Q&A, both between them and with the live audience at Falk Auditorium at the Brookings Institution. It's a wide-ranging conversation about the lessons of 9/11, how we seem to have forgotten them in certain respects, current congressional efforts to rein in I&A’s intelligence-gathering activities domestically, and the post-Jan. 6 need for those authorities.
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| 1:03.7 | We can't and don't just monitor the internet, just snooping around into people's private |
| 1:10.5 | conversations. What we can do in terms of collecting, viewing and collecting is focusing on those |
| 1:19.5 | communications that relate to a homeland threat to one of our missions. So we can only |
| 1:24.1 | collect something if it relates to one of our missions and our missions can be protection |
| 1:29.7 | of critical infrastructure, etc. or protection against cyber threats or protection against |
| 1:37.7 | domestic terrorism. So we're limited in that respect. |
| 1:42.7 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast September 27th, 2023. On September 19th, |
| 1:53.1 | DHS Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis Kenneth Waynestein gave a speech at the Brookings |
| 2:00.3 | Institution on the current threat environment and the role of the Department of Homeland |
| 2:06.7 | Securities Intelligence and Analysis Office in confronting it. Following the speech, Waynestein |
| 2:14.7 | and I sat down for a Q&A, both between us and with the live audience at Brookings's |
| 2:22.8 | Falk Auditorium. It's a wide-ranging conversation about the lessons of 9-11, how we seem to |
| 2:31.4 | have forgotten them in certain respects, current congressional efforts to reign in INA's |
| 2:39.4 | intelligence gathering activities domestically and the post-January 6th need for those |
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