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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Lawfare Senior Editor Anna Bower has been on a quest. She wants to identify the administrator of DOGE. It's partly a comedic bit. And her lengthy article on the subject on Lawfare last week is laugh-out-loud funny. But it's also deadly serious. She came on the Lawfare Podcast to discuss the serious questions behind WITAOD with Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes.

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1:47.8	administrator of Doge is. And so that's kind of where this question started.
1:53.9	It's the Lawfare podcast. I'm Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare, with senior editor Anna Bauer.
2:03.0	When there's a goodbye party, Trump said, Doge is his baby. He'll continue to advise.
2:09.7	So it's really just unclear in all of these instances, like, what can you take at face value,
2:16.3	and what is actually going on?
2:19.3	So there's this, you know, multiple kind of reasons why this question will continue to be relevant.
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