The Lawfare Podcast: Charlie Savage on the Power Wars of the Obama Administration
At the last Hoover Book Soiree\u2014which if you haven\u2019t attended one yet, you really should\u2014Charlie Savage, New York Times national security reporter and author of the newly released book\xa0Power Wars: Inside Obama\u2019s Post-9/11 Presidency,\xa0sat down with Lawfare\u2019s Jack Goldsmith for a detailed discussion of the Obama administration\u2019s national security legacy. The conversation, and so too the book, is chocked full of insider accounts of just about all of the most important Obama administration legal and policy decisions. We won't spoil the fun here, but Charlie walks Jack through\xa0how\xa0Abdulmutallab\u2019s failed underwear bombing affected\xa0President Obama, and the two discuss exactly\xa0why a president who came into office\xa0critiquing Bush's national security policies ended up keeping so many of them. They even touch on\xa0whether he will actually shutter Guantanamo Bay.
It\u2019s the Lawfare Podcast Episode #148: Charlie Savage on the Power Wars of the Obama Administration.\xa0
You can read Jack's review of\xa0Power Wars,\xa0mentioned in the podcast, here.\xa0
The third Hoover Book Soiree will be held on December 2nd, from 5:00-7:00 pm in Washington D.C. Ben Wittes will interview Edward Lucas of the\xa0Economist\xa0on his new book,\xa0Cyberphobia: Identity, Trust, Security, and the Internet. RSVP.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.