{"id":194,"date":"2026-06-18T16:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:39:07","slug":"rational-security-the-predestination-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Rational Security: The \u201cPredestination\u201d Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>This week, Scott sat down with cohost emeritus and <em>Lawfare<\/em> Research Director Alan Rozenshtein, <em>Lawfare<\/em> Managing Editor Tyler McBrien, <em>Lawfare<\/em> Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee, and <em>Lawfare <\/em>Contributing Editor and Vice President of Research, Security and Defense at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Ariane Tabatabai, to talk through the week\u2019s big national security news stories, including:<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=193\">How Authoritarians Control the News<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cFission Accomplished.\u201d After nearly four months of war, the United States and Iran have reached a deal to end the conflict\u2014with Trump declaring it \u201ccomplete\u201d and authorizing the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz ahead of a formal signing ceremony set for June 19 in Switzerland. But the agreement leaves enormous questions unresolved, from the fate of Iran\u2019s enriched uranium to sanctions relief to whether the ceasefire extends to Israel\u2019s campaign in Lebanon. Is this the durable peace Trump claims, or a fragile pause papering over the hardest issues?<\/li>\n<li>\u201cModel Misbehavior.\u201dDays after Anthropic publicly released its powerful new Claude Fable 5 model, the Commerce Department imposed export controls barring any foreign national\u2014inside or outside the U.S.\u2014from accessing it, forcing the company to disable the model worldwide. The administration says Anthropic recklessly refused to fix a dangerous jailbreak; Anthropic says it was a narrow, non-serious vulnerability and the order is a misunderstanding. What does this episode tell us about the government\u2019s expanding use of export controls on AI\u2014and its increasingly adversarial relationship with one of the country\u2019s leading labs?<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBad Vibrations.\u201dIn one of her final acts as Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard rescinded two Biden-era intelligence assessments that had cast doubt on whether a foreign adversary was behind \u201cHavana Syndrome,\u201d the mysterious ailments afflicting U.S. spies and diplomats. Gabbard\u2019s office says the prior assessments cherry-picked intelligence to support a predetermined conclusion; critics worry about a politically motivated rewrite of analytic findings on the way out the door. What should we make of this last-minute reversal, and what does it mean for the future of the Havana syndrome debate\u2014and Gabbard\u2019s legacy as DNI?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"110px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/60427f9d34b9a27f4b6e3a8d\/6a333108e312351cc42d6a21\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>In object lessons, Tyler remains steadfast in his mission to ensure that no one ever runs out of podcasts, this week plugging <\/span>A Whole Other Country<span>, a discovery from <\/span>Tribeca Festival Audio<span>. Alan embraces peak dad-tech with his bbq upgrade\u2014a new, after-market <\/span>temperature controller<span>. Scott savors a delightfully spicy Supreme Court dust-up in <\/span><span> And Julia celebrates <\/span>her mug<span>, an appropriate mainstay during her post-White-House-PDB \u201cdeep state therapy hour.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=191\">Lawfare Daily: The Department of Justice, or the Department of Revenge?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>To receive ad-free podcasts, become a <\/span><em>Lawfare <\/em><span>Material Supporter at <\/span>www.patreon.com\/lawfare<span>. You can also support <\/span><em>Lawfare <\/em><span>by making a one-time donation at <\/span><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationalconsumerreportss.com\/?p=190\">Lawfare Live: The Trials of the Trump Administration, June 12<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Anderson sat down with Alan Rozenshtein, Tyler McBrien, Julia Curlee, and Ariane Tabatabai to talk through the week\u2019s big national security news stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armed-conflict"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rational Security: The \u201cPredestination\u201d Edition - 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