Wonking Week: Collateral Murder

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the death of Osama bin Laden. In addition, Emily Badger looks at WikiLeaks and the curious case of Julian Assange.

In this week’s audio newsletter, we discuss the death of Osama bin Laden and the benefits, or lack of same, from the so-called “leadership decapitation” of terrorist combines. In addition, Emily Badger looks at WikiLeaks and the curious case of of its leader, Julian Assange.

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Audio portions for this week’s Wonking Week podcast include:

– Audio from our discussion of bin Laden was taken from a speech by President Barack Obama.

– Intro and outro music for our podcast interview with Emily Badger was Time Traveling Musicianby Nickleus. Audio from our interview with Emily was an excerpt from an interviewwith Julian Assange’s attorney Mark Stephens.

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