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Episode 106: Schools Out For Summer

• January 14, 2019
• Tagged as: 10 USC 2801, 10 USC 2808, 33 USC 2293, Al Nashiri, bagels, Border Wall, Brian Mizer, CMCR, Court of Military Commission Review, D.C. Circuit, GTMO, Guantanamo, Judge Griffith, Judge Rogers, Judge Schools, Judge Spath, Judge Tatel, Michel Paradis, mil coms, Military Commissions, Nashiri, national emergency, Schools, Section 102, Secure Fences Act, spath

This week on the National Security Law Podcast, co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck are joined by Michel Paradis (lead counsel for the defense in the al-Nashiri military commission case) and Captain Brian Mizer (learned…

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Episode 105: That Doesn’t Mean You Do It Stupid!

• January 7, 2019
• Tagged as: 10 USC 2808, 33 USC 2293, al Tanif, al-Badawi, Article II, AUMF, Border Wall, Chinese commercial espionage, Deployment Power, eminent domain, GTMO, Guantanamo, Harold Martin, IEEPA, Immigration Judge, Iran, John Bolton, Judge Schools, Judge Spath, mathlete, Mattis, Mattis rule, Mean Girls, Military Commissions, National Emergencies Act, national security fact deference, National Security Law, NEA, NSA, Regina George, Shadow Brokers, Shanahan, Syria, Syria withdrawal, transgender servicemembers, Trump, UN Charter, USS Cole, Vacancies Act, War Powers, War Powers Resolution, Warren Christopher Clark, Warren Clark, WPR

If your New Year’s Resolution involves finding a podcast exploring the legal aspects of major national security events and institutions, we are here to help!  Start of 2019 the right way with our first episode…

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Episode 104: This Podcast Is a State Secret

• December 18, 2018
• Tagged as: Article II, Chevy Chase, Chief Justice Vinson, In re Neagle, Justice Field, Reynolds, SSP, State Secrets Privilege, Totten, United States v. Reynolds

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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Episode 100! Trumplandia: If I Did It…

• November 14, 2018
• Tagged as: CMCR, FSIA, GTMO, Islamic State, Military Commissions, Nashiri, OLC, Pyotr Rasputin, Russia, Syria, Trumplandia, War Powers, whole tort

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…

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Episode 99: The Deepest Dive: Surveillance, Section 702, and Section 215

• November 6, 2018
• Tagged as: bulk metada, FISA, FISA Amendments Act, FISC, FISCOR, Fourth Amendment, PRISM, Protect America Act, Section 215, Section 702, Snowden, surveillance, Upstream, USA Freedom Act, USA PATRIOT Act

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…

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Episode 98: That’s What Leadership Looks Like

• October 30, 2018
• Tagged as: Alsheikh, Bahrain, birthright citizenship, border deployment, Doe v. Mattis, Domestic Terrorism, Dred Scott, Fourteenth Amendment, GTMO, habeas, Hamdi, Islamic State, military detention, Plyler v. Doe, Posse Comitatus Act, Rasul, Roger Taney, Ronald Reagan, Wong Kim Ark

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,…

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Episode 97: FISA Part Deux (A Deeper Dive)

• October 26, 2018
• Tagged as: 702, FISA, FISC, FISCOR, TSP

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…