Kenneth Wainstein

Kenneth L. Wainstein, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the DHS, and Jameel Jaffer, Executive Director at the Knight First Amendment Institute, along with Quinta Jurecic, Senior Editor at Lawfare, delve into the complexities of government surveillance on open-source social media. They discuss the tension between national security and civil liberties, highlighting intelligence failures from January 6th and the need for legal reforms. The conversation raises critical questions about privacy, free speech, and the ethical considerations surrounding online monitoring.

Kenneth Wainstein, Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security, discusses the post-9/11 threat environment, congressional efforts to rein in intelligence-gathering activities, monitoring social media for domestic terrorism, the importance of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the conviction and sentencing of January 6th defendants in a conversation with Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes.