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Episode 139: Hello from Austin…Hall?

• October 17, 2019
• Tagged as: AUMF, Boston, botnet, Christopher Krebs, CISA, Cuccineli, DDoS, detention, DHS, Elsheikh, Executive Privilege, FVRA, GTMO, Guantanamo, Impeachment, Judge Rao, Kotey, material support, Military Commissions, military detention, MLAT, NDAA FY'12, Subpoena, Syria, the Beatles, Trumplandia, Turkey, US-UK

We recorded today before a live audience in Austin! Austin Hall, that is, on the campus of Harvard Law School!  Special thanks to Matt Morris and the great students of the Harvard National Security &…

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Episode 138: “That’s Nobody’s Business But the Turks”

• October 9, 2019
• Tagged as: China, Detainees, FISC, FISC-R, Impeachment, Impeachment inquiry, Iraq, Islamic State, Kurks, NBA, SDF, Section 702, Syria, Trump, White House Counsel

In addition to quoting They Might Be Giants lyrics, this week’s episode features cohosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck taking on three big issues: The Impeachment Inquiry & the White House Counsel’s Letter on Non-Cooperation…

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Episode 137: Do Us a Favor Though Because This Podcast Has Been Through a Lot

• September 26, 2019
• Tagged as: Attorney General Guidelines., DNI Maguire, Domestic Terrorism, Impeachment, Impeachment inquiry, Joe Maguire, Judge Colyer, Kareem Bilal, OLC, Senate Homeland Security Committee, State Secrets Privilege, whisteblower

So, you’ll never guess what we’re going to talk about in this week’s episode. [Editor’s note: Guys, you can’t just say that and then put in no further details in these shownotes. Get back to…

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Episode 136: This Podcast Needs a Reboot!

• September 18, 2019
• Tagged as: Acting DNI, Brute Squad, Burr, Coming to America, DNI, Executive Privilege, Fifth Amendment, GTMO, HPSCI, ICWPA, Joe Maguire, Johnson v. Eisentrager, Judge Rao, Kiyemba, Marbury v. Madison, Military Commissions, pre-publication review, Princess Bride, Qassim, Schiff, Snowden, SSCI, Verdugo-Urquidez, Warner, whistleblower protection

And we’re back, with a lot of news to cover!  Tune in for discussion and (respectful) debate with our cohosts, Professors Vladeck and Chesney, as the review: Is it proper for the DNI to withhold…

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Episode 135: Do You Hear the Podcast Sing

• September 11, 2019
• Tagged as: 9/11, Charles Kable, Elhady v. Kable, Fifth Amendment, GTMO, Guantanamo, Judge Lamberth, Judge Robertson, Military Commissions, Terrorist Screening Center, Terrorist Screening Database, TSC, TSDB

Tune in to the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast as your co-hosts Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss and debate: On the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: which elements of current counterterrorism…

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Episode 134: A Very Brady Episode

• September 4, 2019
• Tagged as: 2339A, 2339B, 9/11, Afghanistan, AUMF, Awais Chudhary, Classified Information, Domestic Terrorism, GTMO, Iran, KH-11, KSM, material support, military commission, military detention, National Security Law, President Trump, Ruslan Asainov, Taliban, United States v. Scales

And we are back with more discussion and debate of the latest national security legal news! Tune in for cohosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney as they take up: Domestic terrorism and the questions such…

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Episode 133: You Are “Hereby Ordered” To Listen To This Podcast

• August 28, 2019
• Tagged as: 1L, asylum, China, Conspiracy, Curtis-Wright, IEEPA, International Emergency Economic Powers Act, law school, Military Commissions, National Emergencies Act, National Security Law, NEA, Ninth Circuit, non-delegation, pedagogy, sanctions, SCOTUS, Socratic method, Tariffs

Well, that’s not quite what the President said.  It was something about American companies and trade with China, not you and your podcast app.  And IEEPA can’t be used to make anyone listen to this podcast, we…

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Episode 132: On the Way to Greenland!

• August 20, 2019
• Tagged as: 2339A, 2339B, asylum, Domestic Terrorism, FBI, federal encroachment, federalism, FVRA, Greenland, Joe Maguire, Liberty Crossing, nationwide injunction, NCTC, Ninth Circuit, Representative Schiff, Senator McSally, Seward's Folly, Sue Gordon, WMD

And we are back with more debate and discussion concerning the latest national security and law news!  In this week’s episode, co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck explore: The legal complexities that followed from the…

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Episode 131: El Paso and Domestic Terrorism

• August 6, 2019
• Tagged as: 2331, 2332a, 2332b, 2339A, 2339B, Boumediene, DISA, Domestic Terrorism, El Paso Shooting, FISA, habeas, International Terrorism, material support, surveillance, suspension clause, terrorism, The Keith Case, Thuraissigiam

This week’s episode features an extended discussion of domestic terrorism as a legal category and as a policy category, in light of the attack in El Paso.  Among other aspects, we discuss: Substantive criminal charging…

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Episode 130: In Case of Vacancy, Who Becomes Our Acting Podcast Host?

• July 31, 2019
• Tagged as: 25th Amendment, 9/11, Acting DNI, border emergency, Border Wall, Claire Gordon, Cuccineli, Dan Coats, DHS, DNI, Federal Vacancies Reform Act, FVRA, GTMO, Guantanamo, Hamid Hayat, IRTPA, John Ratcliffe, KSM, Military Commissions, National Security Division, National Security Law, nationwide injunction, NSD, ODNI, PDDNI, SCOTUS, Succession, Sue Gordon

And we’re back with a new episode, with co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discussing and debating the latest national security law news (and, let’s face it, engaging in *lots* of digressions).  This week we’ve…