Episode #72: A Debate on the Future of the AUMF
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2014
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Ben Wittes and Rosa Brooks discuss the future of the AUMF at a panel moderated by Greg McNeal at Pepperdine University School of Law.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | Via these superficial legitimating power of the Indian National Committee have essentially |
| 0:41.8 | what amounts to a third over-war in addition to the wars in the wreckage of gas. |
| 0:47.6 | We think we know that the West Coast is quite targeted and killed roughly 4,000 people. |
| 0:54.6 | I find it quite troubling as the citizen to conflict the idea that we really have a third |
| 1:00.6 | war that we can't despise, we can't explain, we don't really know where it is or why, but |
| 1:10.6 | all of this decision in use is based on legal criteria that have been developed in secret |
| 1:17.6 | based on evidence that is evaluated in secret from secret sources, with the citizens |
| 1:24.6 | made by individuals who identity is anonymous and the strikes are not formally acknowledged |
| 1:30.6 | to us. |
| 1:31.6 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast April 26, 2014. |
| 1:38.6 | That was Rosa Brooks, Georgetown Law Professor, former DOD official, Cheryl Sandberg dissenter, |
| 1:45.6 | foreign policy columnist and my sparring partner in a recent debate about reauthorizing the |
| 1:51.6 | AUMF. |
| 1:52.6 | The debate took place at Pepperdine University Law School a couple of weeks ago, Greg McNeill |
| 1:58.1 | of Pepperdine moderated the discussion which covered a lot of ground. |
| 2:02.6 | What and whom does the AUMF cover? |
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