Lawfare’s Annual “Ask Us Anything”
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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It’s our annual “Ask Us Anything” episode. This year, Lawfare editors answered some of your burning questions on the Secret Service, the durability of the U.S. legal system in the wake of Jan. 6, the failed German coup, the classification of Mar-a-Lago documents, software supply chain cyber attacks, and the intelligence community using real corporations as covers in their operations.
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:29.0 | And this is a case where the Secret Service can make a decision that it is simply not safe for the president to go somewhere or to be in a certain situation. |
| 0:43.0 | My impression is that, you know, people really could have died. |
| 0:46.0 | The Rexburgers do have weapons. |
| 0:48.0 | It could have been violent in the same way that January 6 was violent. |
| 0:52.0 | The bad news is what we saw in January 6, which is that this decentralized, rigged-tag group can be called up very rapidly by a charismatic... |
| 1:03.0 | And in this context, I'd put a slightly different glass on it, which is just as too far delayed risks, just as becoming impotent. |
| 1:12.0 | I don't know how susceptible or open the DOJ would have been to that. |
| 1:16.0 | The simple reason that taking legal action against a former president is really politically and legally challenging and politically super-sensitive. |
| 1:24.0 | The Commission calls on Congress to enact legislation establishing that final goods assemblers of software, hardware, and firmware are liable for damages from incidents that exploit vulnerabilities. |
| 1:38.0 | There are certainly circumstances in which private sector actors are used as covering overseas operations. |
| 1:46.0 | I'm Tyler McBrion, Managing Editor of Lawfare, and this is the Lawfare Podcast, January 4, 2023. |
| 1:53.0 | Welcome to our annual Ask Us Anything episode, a High-Load Lawfare tradition. |
| 1:58.0 | This year, Lawfare Senior Editors answered some of your burning questions on the Secret Service, the durability of the US legal system and the wake of January 6, |
| 2:06.0 | the failed German coup, the classification of Mar-a-Lago documents, software supply chain cyber attacks, and even the past and current Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. |
| 2:17.0 | You know, light stuff. |
| 2:19.0 | It's the Lawfare Podcast, January 4, ask us anything. |
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