This is our second lockdown episode, simulcast as a Zoom-based video! If you didn’t believe us before about our commitment to production authenticity, well you will if you watch the video version! [ed. note: guys, that’s…
We may be on home lockdown, but that didn’t stop us from recording! Thanks to the magic of Zoom, we gathered online to record this episode, and just for kicks we recorded the video while…
Episode 158: What SCOTUS Can Learn from Franklin Barbecue
- March 11, 2020
- Tagged as: Afghanistan, AR 190-8, Army Regulation 190-8, Article II, Call Detail Records, CDRs, coronavirus, covid-19, CSC, Cyberspace Solarium Commission, Defense Department General Counsel, escalation risk, FISA, Franklin Barbecue, GTMO, Guantanamo, ICC, lone wolf, national self defense, Paul Ney, Picard, Roving Wiretaps, SCOTUS, Section 215, social distancing, Soleimani, sunset, Supreme Court, USA Freedom Act, war crimes, Westworld
Are you “working” from home now? Perhaps it’s time to take a break and enjoy the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast. In a discussion that takes the goal of let’s-not-prepare-too-much to new…
Episode 157: At Least There Are No Zombies…Yet
- March 4, 2020
- Tagged as: al Qaeda, asylum, CIS, coronavirus, covid-19, Cuccinelli, declassification, DHS, emergency, first assistant, FISA, FISC, FOIA, FVRA, GTMO, Guantanamo, immigration, isolation, Judge Moss, loyally gets appointed, metering, military detention, NIMBY, OLC, Picard, quarantine, right to travel, Sessions, Taliban, Texas Government Code
Back-to-back episodes! After yesterday’s interview-focused show, we wanted to get right back into the mix with discussion and debate over the latest national security law news. Tune in for: Beyond quarantine: What happens when local…
Episode 156: This Podcast Is VUCA!
- March 3, 2020
- Tagged as: 9/11, CFAA, General John Baker, GTMO, Guantanamo, Military Commissions, Military Commissions Act, Nashiri
We are back with an interview-focused episode! Tune in as Professors Chesney and Vladeck interview Brigadier General John G. Baker, USMC. General Baker is Chief Defense Counsel for the military commissions at Guantanamo. And, yes,…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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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