Introducing “The Report”: A Podcast Series from Lawfare

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🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

For the past several weeks, a group of us has been working on a project to tell the story of the Mueller Report in an accessible form. The Mueller Report tells a heck of a story, a bunch of incredible stories, actually. But it does so in a form that’s hard for a lot of people to take in. It’s very long. It’s legally dense in spots. It’s marred with redactions. It’s also, shall we say, not optimized for your reading pleasure.

Various folks have made efforts to make the document easier to consume: the report is now an audiobook; it’s been staged as a play; there have been live readings. We took a different approach: a serialized narrative podcast.

The extended network of writers, experts, lawyers, and journalists around Lawfare represents a unique body of expertise in the public conversation of the issues discussed in the report. So we teamed up with Goat Rodeo, a podcast production group in Washington, to use that group of people as a lens through which to tell the story contained in the report. The first episode, entitled “Active Measures,” is now out and covers the Russian social media campaign and the activities of the Internet Research Agency.

It features Alina Polyakova, Clint Watts, John Sipher, and Thomas Rid.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair
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0:18.2	Also, check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair
0:25.6	no bull and the aftermath.
0:55.6	The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of LawFair.
1:25.6	The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of LawFair.
1:55.6	This is the report, an audio series from LawFair, breaking down the report of special
2:16.3	counsel Robert S. Muller III.
2:23.3	Two years ago, the acting attorney general asked me to serve as special counsel and he created
2:35.6	the special counsel's office.
2:37.9	At his press conference on May 29th, Muller practically begged the American public to read
2:43.7	his 448 page report, a redacted version of which had been released weeks earlier.
2:50.7	It is important that the office's written work speak for itself.
2:54.9	It contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions.
2:59.4	We chose those words carefully and the work speaks for itself.
3:03.3	And the report is my testimony.
3:05.3	I do not believe it is appropriate for me to speak further about the investigation or
3:09.5	to comment on the actions of the Justice Department or Congress.
3:13.8	Thank you.
3:14.8	Thank you for being here today.
3:18.7	The Muller Report, as it is known, covers allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential
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