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Last week, the Senate held confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. This episode of No Bull includes just the questions and answers regarding national security law. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week, on the morning of March 8th, the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence held its annual worldwide threats hearing to hear testimony about the current security threats that face the United States and its allies. The committee heard from Intelligence Community leaders, including Lieutenant General Scott Berrier, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, William Burns, the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence, General Paul Nakasone, the Director of the National Security Agency and Christopher Wray, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a virtual address to Congress on March 16th, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked the U.S. to support a no-fly zone over Ukraine and to provide military aid to help defend themselves against Russia. Zelensky also played a video, which we cut but is worth watching, showing visuals of civilians being killed and injured in the ongoing conflict. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today on Lawfare: No Bull: President Biden gave his first State of the Union address this week, which we present to you in full - minus the applause. Biden discussed the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Democrats' plans for addressing inflation, crime, and healthcare, including COVID-19 related bills. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Earlier this week, the National Security Institute at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School hosted an event on the Justice Department’s role in combatting nation state threats. Matt Olsen, Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division at DOJ, spoke about the issue and then sat down for a fireside chat with the Director of Policy at NSI, John Lipsey, to answer some questions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Thursday, February 17th, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco delivered the keynote address at the Munich Cyber Security Conference 2022. She spoke about past enforcement actions against cyber criminals, including the seizure of ransomware payments and other hacks, the FBI’s Virtual Asset Exploitation Unit, the DOJ’s appointment of former AUSA Eun Young Choi as director of the DOJ’s national cryptocurrency enforcement team, and other matters related to cryptocurrency regulation and incident responses to malevolent cyber actors.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Wednesday February 9th, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the legal and human costs of U.S. drone strikes. The committee heard from five witnesses including Hina Shamsi, Director of the National Security Project at the ACLU; Radhya al-Mutawakel, Chairperson of the Mwatana for Human Rights in Yemen; Stephen Pomper, Chief of Policy at the International Crisis Group; Retired Air Force General and Chief of Staff John Jumper; and Nathan Sales, Former Ambassador-at-Large and Coordinator for Counterrorism at the State Department. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Tuesday, January 11th, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the threat of domestic terrorism facing our nation, one year after the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The hearing included testimonies from Matthew Olsen, Assistant Attorney General in the National Security Division of the Department of Justice and Jill Sanborn, Executive Assistant Director of the National Security Branch of the FBI. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On January 6th 2022, President Joe Biden spoke in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol, to commemorate the attack that happened there one year ago. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On January 5th 2022, the eve of the first anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, Attorney General Merrick Garland delivered a speech reviewing the Justice Department’s efforts to investigate and prosecute those responsible for the attack on the Capitol. He also promised that the DOJ will do everything in its power to defend American people and American democracy and confirmed that the department remains committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.