Deep-dive alert! That’s right, we are closing out 2018 with a deep-dive episode on the State Secrets Privilege. From Totten to Reynolds and on to the present day, you’ll want to tune in for this hour-long exploration of…
Episode 103: This Podcast Should Be Dis-BARRed
- December 11, 2018
- Tagged as: Academy Awards, al Alwi, Attorney General Barr, Bill Barr, Deployment Power, DPRK, foreign films, GTMO, habeas, Huawei, IEEPA, Judge Garland, Justice Kavanaugh, Miller Center, OFAC, Oscars, Persian Gulf War, PPG, sanctions, SCOTUS, Somalia, Treasury Department, War Powers, War Powers Resolution, William Barr, WPR, Youngstown
Interested in the views of Once and Future Attorney General Bill Barr on questions like the power of the president to initiate a war, remove officials, and other hot separation of powers topics? We read…
Episode 102: This Podcast Is Bowl-Eligible
- December 5, 2018
- Tagged as: 2339B, Attorney General Whitaker, bitcoin, Burr, CMCR, College Football Playoffs, D.C. Circuit, Guantanamo, hostilities, Houthis, ISIS, Islamic State, Judge Spath, KSA, mandamus, material support, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, Military Commissions, National Security Law, NSL, OFAC, ransomware, sanctions, SCOTUS, SSCI, Sugar Bowl, Trumplandia, War Powers, Warner, Yemen
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Or at least it’s the most wonderful time of the week, for we’ve just posted the latest episode of National Security Law Podcast! Tune in for: Military…
Episode 101: “To me, [this podcast] is perfect”
- November 27, 2018
- Tagged as: arms dealer, Billy Mack, border, border wars, cabinet order, cert. before judgment, Chemical Weapons Convention, Chief of Staff Kelly, Crime, CWC, drone strikes, extradition, Hungary, John Kelly, Kerch Strait, Love Actually, Lyubishin, Noel Francisco, PCA, Posse Comitatus Act, POWs, public display of prisoners, RCA, Riot Control Agents, ROE, Russia, Sea of Azov, Solicitor General, Spencer Ackerman, Tear Gas, Ukraine
And we’re back, full of turkey and much else besides! We hope you all had a restful and grateful Thanksgiving (or, for our non-American listeners, that you had a wonderful ordinary work week), and are…
It finally happened: a live episode, on the occasion of our 100th episode! Today we recorded at American University Washington College of Law thanks to the good offices of our friend–and co-host this week–Prof. Jen…
This week we’ve got the concluding episode in our trilogy of deep dives exploring the history and evolution of our foreign-intelligence collection legal architecture (see here and here for the two earlier episodes). Our focus…
In today’s episode we take a break from our deep-dive series on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in order to reengage with the weekly inflow of national security law news. We had no choice, really,…
Aaaaand we’re back! Yesterday we posted the first in a series of Deep Dive episodes on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, covering the origins and early-evolution of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Today, we pick…
Episode 96: A Deep Dive into…the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
- October 25, 2018
- Tagged as: 4th Amendment, Agent of a Foreign Power, Church Committee, DISA, Doe v. Mattis, domestic intelligence, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, Fourth Amendment, Katz, Keith Case, Nardone, Olmstead, primary purpose test, probable cause, Supreme Court, the Wall, Truong, warrant
Welcome to part 1 of a 2-part deep-dive series concerning FISA! In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck begin with the history and context leading up to the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act…
Welcome to the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast! We’re back with our usual mix of discussion and debate about the most-interesting legal developments relating to national security over the past week. And…