It Was a Big Week for Authoritarianism in America

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Chris Cotnoir

Government

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🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

As reports have come in of Russia escalating its attacks on American democracy, our President has hopped into action escalating his war against the people who are protecting us from the Russians. Trump has begun a campaign of stripping security clearances from America's most experience national security officials in an effort to punish them for disloyalty. Our experts, Susan Hennessey of Lawfare, Rosa Brooks of Georgetown University Law School and Ed Luce of the Financial Times, discuss which of the effects of this misguided policy will be worse--chilling free expression, alienating the security community, reducing the expertise available to the government or just ushering in more authoritarianism. But don't worry. You don't have to choose. All will be bad. Also: we discuss the president's lawyers and why they may mean he needs more lawyers.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/deepstateradio. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Deep State Radio.
0:51.0	I am David Rothkoff, I am your host and I am here in our studios in the
0:55.9	third sub-basement of the Ministry of Snark. Spread out across America we have our
1:01.5	great panel for today's show.
1:03.7	In Wyoming, we have Georgetown University's Rosa Brooks,
1:07.4	who is busily not writing her book, correct?
1:12.2	No, I'm writing, I'm writing now. I'm writing David, I promise.
1:15.0	Okay, that doesn't sound very plausible.
1:18.0	At the Brookings Institution, just off of Scenic DuPont Circle, we have Susan Hennessy of Law Fair and Brookings who is
1:27.7	busily not writing her book.
1:30.3	That's true, although unlike Rosa, if she doesn't write this book she will still have written a book so I rank myself a little lower
1:38.4	Well, what is your book about? It is I'm Ben Wittis and I are writing a book on the Office of the Presidency in relation
1:47.4	to its current occupants.
1:49.5	Susan, being a little older than you just means that there are even more books that I have not written
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