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Friday, March 11 at 12 p.m. EST: Lawfare Live: The Aftermath Episode 2 Q&A

This Friday, March 11, at 12 p.m. EST, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett, Associate Editor Rohini Kurup and Goat Rodeo’s Ian Enright will join Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes to discuss Lawfare and Goat Rodeo’s new podcast series, “The Aftermath,” which covers the government’s response to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and the search for accountability over the past year.

Episode 1 dealt with the events of January 6 itself and the accountability questions it raised. The Q&A we hosted in January on that episode is available as a recording.

The subject of our Q&A this week is Episode 2—entitled “Scattered to the Four Winds”—which covers the early phases of the criminal investigation launched by the FBI even as the perpetrators of the riot were heading home. Featuring former FBI and Justice Department official Chuck Rosenberg, New York Times reporter Katie Benner, and Seamus Hughes of the George Washington University Program on Extremism, it tells the story of how the investigation got started, the challenges investigators faced in a nationwide manhunt featuring thousands of suspects and perpetrators, and the internal struggle that had just taken place within the Justice Department itself.

You can register for the event here

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Related but not this episode - the most recent deep dive into the Oath Keepers and their political philosophy/organizational makeup was super informative. I’ve read and listened to a variety of “oath keepers/proud boys/far right extremist” explainers and found that the lawfare episode connected a lot of previously unmoored dots as far as my understanding of who the group is and what it’s ideological motivations are. It was on par with the joint discussions by Elizabeth Neuman and Kathleen Belew of their research on the topic of right wing extremist organizations more broadly.

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