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The Search for Accountability: A Guide to Lawfare’s Jan. 6 Project

Hadley Baker, Matt Gluck, Hyemin Han, Quinta Jurecic, Natalie K. Orpett, Benjamin Pollard, Katherine Pompilio, and Tia Sewell  presented a guide to Lawfare’s coverage of the aftermath of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, telling its story as we currently know it in the process.

The slate of hearings convened by the Jan. 6 Committee was the television event of summer 2022: a dramatic series that vividly reminded viewers of the chaos and violence of the attack on the Capitol. This fall, the committee faces the task of wrapping up its public hearings and compiling its work into a final report before the end of the 117th Congress. Along with the Justice Department’s criminal investigation into the insurrection, the committee’s work has received blockbuster media coverage as it continues to uncover new information about the attack.

But, the investigations by the committee and the Justice Department are far from the only efforts to hold to account those who bear responsibility for the insurrection. There’s been an impeachment, multiple separate congressional investigations, and a swarm of civil lawsuits. 

These many different threads can be difficult to untangle. That’s why we’re providing a detailed overview of Lawfare’s coverage of the various ways in which the government, individuals, and entities have responded to Jan. 6. We’ve been writing and podcasting about the insurrection since the day it happened and have closely followed the twists and turns as the story of Jan. 6 continues to unfold. Here, you can refresh your memory on aspects of the insurrection and the investigations into it that you may have forgotten.

I Am Not a Source; Reading My Twitter Feed Is Not a Method

Benjamin Wittes provided an update about his ongoing lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security over its filing of two open source intelligence reports about him in 2020.

Is the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) still filing intelligence reports about journalists?

It seems like a simple question. And I confess I wasn’t expecting the…

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A Lawfare Hacking and Cybersecurity Course

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We are delighted to announce a first on Lawfare: A live online class on hacking and cybersecurity.

The live-course will be open to Lawfare’s material supporters, and we will edit and post each recorded class session onto YouTube as videos that will amount to a public course on computer hacking. 

Whether one joins live or watches the videos later, students will learn to use virtual machines to “hack” other virtual machines using standard attacks such as packet sniffing, buffer overflow, IP spoofing, certification forgery, Person-in-the-middle, SQL injection and Cross site scripting. 

The course, which Scott will teach with Sean O’Brien, will train students to understand cybersecurity and networking concepts, not only to help them protect themselves, but also so that they may better engage issues at the policy and regulatory level. 

No prior computer programming experience is necessary. 

We will be holding each class live Tuesday evenings between 7:00 pm and 8:00 pm ET throughout the fall semester. The edited videos from each class session will be posted on Lawfare. Students in the live class may submit their hacks for an end of the semester competition, and we will devote a few classes to examining the best hacks. 

The live classes will take place on a platform called Crowdcast, which will be familiar to viewers of Lawfare Live and the In Lieu of Fun show—which we co-host with two other friends. Live participants will be able to engage with the instruction directly and in real time, ask questions, and get their work evaluated in the context of the competition. The ultimate product will be free instructional videos available to anyone. 

If you want to take the course live, please sign up for it here. 

Among other things, this course will be an experiment in Lawfare’s ability to make online courses, using both live formats and edited video. If it works, we may do more of it in a fashion designed to provide both an interactive live experience for Lawfare Material Supporters and a public resource for everyone. 

Below is a brief syllabus for the course. 

As we create the individual videos, we will embed them on this page. 

Course Websites: Various resources for the…

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote held by his party, reports the BBC. Johnson won the support of 59 percent of Tory members of parliament, which protects him from a leadership challenge for a year. But critics say the narrow vote reflects Johnson’s weakened position in the party and are calling for his resignation.

Russia says it has advanced in eastern Ukraine, with troops now occupying 97 percent of the territory in Luhansk, writes AP News. The announcement comes as Russia deploys additional reinforcements in the area and the country’s artillery barrage continues its offensive on Ukrainian forces, according to an Ukrainian official.

According to Western officials, China is covertly building a military base in Cambodia, writes the Washington Post. The reports indicate that the facility will be exclusively used by the Chinese military, which both countries deny. As China has only one other foreign military base, in Djibouti, a facility in Cambodia would significantly advance its desires for greater influence in the South China Sea. 

Dozens of people were killed at a church in Ondo, Nigeria, by gunmen disguised as worshippers, reports ABC News. The massacre occurred during Pentecost Sunday services, which celebrate the 50th day after Easter. It is unclear who orchestrated the attack , and police have yet to identify the gunmen.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said he will not attend the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles, following a decision from the White House not to include the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, writes the Washington Post. López Obrador is sending his foreign minister in his place and plans to meet with President Biden in July.

Five members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, were charged in a superseding indictment with seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, according to the New York Times. The group’s former leader, Enrique Tarrio, is among those indicted. The charges, if proven, would carry a maximum prison sentence of 20 years.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition…

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