Lawfare Daily: Adam Chan on the FCC’s Growing Role in National Security
The Lawfare Podcast
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4.7 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson and Contributing Editor Brandon Van Grack sit down with Adam Chan, the first National Security Counsel at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), to discuss the FCC’s increasingly important role in U.S. national security policy.
Together they discuss the origins of the FCC’s role in national security, how and why it has grown in an era of major power competition, and several of the initiatives they currently have underway.
Since recording, the FCC has taken further action on one such issue: the problem of “bad labs.” You can read their press release here.
This episode is part of the special “The Regulators” podcast series, which features conversations with senior officials working at the intersection of national security and the economy.
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