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Episode 155: This Podcast Is Not Wearing a Facemask (But It Did Wash Its Hands)

• February 26, 2020
• Tagged as: APA, Bivens, bulk metada, Call Detail Records, coronavirus, Costa Mesa, covid-19, FISA, FISC, Grenell, Hernandez, isolation, Judge Leon, Larabee, lone wolf, Maguire, ODNI, PCLOB, Picard, quarantine, roving wiretap, Sacramento v. Lewis, SCOTUS, Section 215, Trumplandia, USA Freedom Act, USA PATRIOT Act

This week in the wild world of national security law, your co-hosts Professors Vladeck and Chesney discuss and debate: The prospects for legislative change to FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), including notes on a…

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Episode 154: This Podcast Is Not Just a “Piece of Metal”

• February 19, 2020
• Tagged as: 18 USC 1114, 2002 AUMF, anticipatory self-defense, Article II, AUMF, Bill Barr, clerkships, extraterritorial, imminent, Iran, Iraq, national self defense, Pardon Power, Picard, Roger Stone, Soleimani, Trumplandia

This week on NSL Podcast, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: The U.S. government’s formal statement to Congress on the legal rationale for its airstrike against General Soleimani Trumplandia and law enforcement:…

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Episode 153: This Podcast Has All the Elsas (But No Eminem)

• February 12, 2020
• Tagged as: Biggs, Bill Barr, CDC, diplomatic assurances, Donald Trump, GTMO, habeas, imminent attack, Iran, Iraq, Larabee, Main DOJ, Military Whistleblowers Protection Act, non refoulement, Omar Ameen, prosecutorial discretion, prosecutorial independence, quarantine, Roger Stone, SCOTUS, sentencing guidelines, Soleimani, UCMJ, Vindman, War Powers

And we’re back, with a fresh episode at last.  Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate the latest national security law developments.  This week they cover: Donald Trump pressuring Main…

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Episode 152: John Bolton Is Welcome to Testify on this Podcast

• January 29, 2020
• Tagged as: Brandenberg, Chief Justice Roberts, CIA, Court Martial, deliberative privilege, Eddie Gallagher, EITs, Executive Privilege, FISA, FISC, Fleet Reserve, GTMO, Horowitz Report, Ides of March, Impeachment, Jessen, John Bolton, Mitchell, Nixon v. United States, Picard, Subpoena, Torture, Trump, UCMJ, Walter Nixon, Waterboarding

After a wholly-frivolous episode last week, we are back with…well…a slightly-frivolous episode this week.  Tune in as your co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney review and debate: The likely procedural, jurisdictional, and other legal issues…

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Episode 151: This Podcast Deserves (at Least) One Vote for the Hall of Fame

• January 22, 2020
• Tagged as: frivolity

Oh heavens, what were they thinking?  This week on the National Security Law Podcast, your hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney bring you…well, not a single second of national security law talk.  Nope, instead this…

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Episode 150: This Podcast Can’t Spell Sesquicenteninial!

• January 16, 2020
• Tagged as: Chris Krebs, Christopher Krebs, CISA, cybersecurity, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, DHS, election machine security, election security, Houston Astros, Neal Peart, Rush

It’s episode 150, and to celebrate we have a special guest: The Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Christopher Krebs!  That’s right, we’ve got all the cybers this week, and a fun…

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Episode 149: This Podcast Will Not Serve as a Notification to Anyone About Anything

• January 6, 2020
• Tagged as: Article II. self-defense, AUMF, Congress, Frozen II, Iran, Iraq, Khataib Hezbollah, Soleimani, War Powers

Not surprisingly, this weeks episode focuses entirely on the set of legal and policy questions raised by the airstrike that killed, among other, the Iranian general Qassim Soleimani in Iraq.  But of course there is…

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Episode 148: This Podcast Is “Thug #7”

• December 18, 2019
• Tagged as: Carter Page, DOJ OIG Report, Evan Hansen, FBI, FISA, FISA Title I, FISC, Horowitz, Impeachment, NDAA, NSD, SCOTUS, Subpoena, Trump

Tired of watching the impeachment?  Turn away from your monitor/tv, put in your earbuds, and go for a nice walk while listening to the latest National Security Law Podcast!  This week we have Professors Chesney…

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Episode 147: Sometimes You Get a Donald J. Trump

• December 10, 2019
• Tagged as: Afghanistan, Amazon, Articles of Impeachment, bid protest, FBI, FISA, FTO, grey zone, information operations, Inspector General's Report, JEDI, Mandalorian, Mexican drug cartels, Mueller Report, NDAA, Section 1631, Tsarnaev, Woods Procedures

Welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast!  This week we discuss: The two Articles of Impeachment The Inspector General’s Report on the origins and conduct of the FBI’s investigation into Russian election interference Amazon’s…

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Episode 146: What’s In Your Wallet? A Subpoena!

• December 4, 2019
• Tagged as: 956(a), Adam Schiff, Adham Hassoun, call records, Donald Trump, Executive Privilege, Fourth Amendment, FTO, Grand Jury Subpoena, Impeachment, Jose Padilla, Mandalorian, Mexican Cartels, NSD, Second Circuit, Stored Communications Act, Subpoena, Third Party Doctrine, Trumplandia

Welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast!  Tune in as Professors Vladeck and Chesney debate and discuss the week’s national security law news, including: Trumplandia: The House Intelligence Committee’s report shines a spotlight on…