Episode #46: Benjamin Wittes Speaks at Hoover on "Speaking the Law"

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🗓️ 1 November 2013

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Benjamin Wittes speaks on his and Kenneth Anderson's book, Speaking the Law, at an October 25 media colloquium at the Hoover Institution.

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0:44.6	Hello and welcome to the LawFair podcast, I'm Benjamin Wittis. On October 25th, the Hoover
0:51.7	institution held a media colloquial for a diverse group of distinguished journalists at
0:57.1	its headquarters at Stanford University. The day-long program involved presentations by people
1:03.3	associated with Hoover's task force on national security and law, of which I and several other
1:09.1	LawFair editors or members. The event was not open to the public, but the sessions were terrific
1:15.1	and Hoover recorded them and made the audio files available to LawFair to podcast. Most of
1:21.5	the journalists involved more over consented to having their remarks made public. So over the next
1:27.2	few weeks we will podcast several of the sessions beginning with the first presentation of the day,
1:32.5	my own discussion of Ken and my book on the Obama administration's national security law speeches.
1:38.6	The book is called Speaking the Law and is being published in serial form by Hoover. The first
1:45.4	three chapters are all available on the Speaking the Law page on LawFair. Both because the sessions
1:52.6	were long and because not all of the reporters agreed to have their remarks used, I have edited
1:58.3	the Q&A portion of this discussion. Thanks to Hoover for putting together this amazing event. I
2:04.6	am. Thanks to you all for coming. So I want to leave as much time for you to guide the
2:15.0	question, the conversation as I can. So I'm going to speak briefly and try to give, there is no way in
2:22.3	20 minutes to give a real overview of all the material that Ken and I have treated in this project
2:31.6	and I'm not going to try actually. I'm going to focus on a few aspects of it that I think are
2:37.9	particularly salient right now and I sort of incorporate by reference the rest and I'm happy to
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