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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…

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Episode 145: The Meh-mometer Is Stuck at Meh

• November 26, 2019
• Tagged as: 9/11, 9/11 case, al Iraqi, Al Nashiri, Attorney-Client Privilege, CDRs, CENTCOM, CMCR, Detainees, Don McGahn, Executive Privilege, FISA, Gallagher, habeas, Ides of March, IS, Islamic State, John Bolton, KSM, Lamar Jackson, lone wolf, Mandalorian, Military Commissions, military detention, President Trump, roving wiretap, SDF, Secretary Esper, Secretary Spencer, Section 215, Subpoena, testimonial privilege, the Beatles, Trumplandia

Happy Thanksgiving to all!  If you are stuck in an airport or on a long drive this week, we’ve got you covered for at least one hour, as Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss and debate:…

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Episode 144: Lawful But Awful

• November 20, 2019
• Tagged as: administrative stay, AG Barr, Attorney General Barr, Boumediene, Chief Justice Roberts, deference, Executive Power, Federalist Society, Federative Power, Impeachment inquiry, John Locke, Mandalorian, Mazars, Muthana, pardons, political question doctrine, SCOTUS, Sondland, Subpoena, The Crown, Trump, UCMJ, Ukraine, Vindman, war crimes, Zelensky

Episode 144 is here! It was no easy task to sort out which topics to discuss this week, but in the end the Trumplandia segment prevailed over almost all the others.  The end result?  Tune…

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Episode 143: We won an award?!?

• November 13, 2019
• Tagged as: 215, Alasaad v. Nielsen, Bivens, border search, Carpenter, CDRs, contraband, cross-border shooting, FISA, Fourth Amendment, Hernandez, IG, IG Atkinson, Impeachment, lone wolf, Mandalorian, National Cupcake Day, reasonable suspicion, Rich Lowry, Riley, Roving Wiretaps, SCOTUS, Trump, USA Freedom, Verdugo-Urquidez, Vindman

When you are done watching the impeachment hearings and just can’t take it anymore, it’s time to open up a can of … National Security Law Podcast!  For your happy hour or other occasions, we’ve…