Tag: FISA

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Episode 58: Is It Treason Not to Clap For This Podcast?

• February 6, 2018
• Tagged as: #mehmo, #releasethememo, ACLU v. Mattis, al Darbi, Carter Page, Convening Authority, Dirty Dancing, Doe v. Mattis, Eli Manning, FISA, FISC, FOIA, Gary Brown, GTMO, Guantanamo, Han Solo, Harvey Rishikof, House Rule 11(g), Judge Chutkan, Justin Timberlake, Kessel Run, Kiyemba, Kiyemba II, Military Commissions, Munaf, National Security Law, Nunes, Schiff, Super Bowl, Tom Brady, Treason, Trump, Valentine

Sorry that football season is over?  Lucky for you, the National Security Law Podcast has no offseason!  And lucky for your co-hosts, the world keeps generating new topics for conversation and debate.  This week, Professors Vladeck…

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Episode 57: About that #Mehmo (Special Edition on the Nunes Memo Release)

• February 2, 2018
• Tagged as: #meh-mo, #mehmo, #releasethememo, Adam Schiff, Burr, counterintelligence, Director Wray, FBI, FISA, FISC, HPSCI, John Kelly, National Security Law, Nunes, Orin Kerr, probable cause, Russia, Senator Burr, SSCI, Trump, warrant, Wray

President Trump has declassified the Nunes Memo and it now is available to the public.  Your hosts–Professors Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck–give it a deep-dive review here in a special-edition podcast episode.  Tune in to…

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Episode 55: #ReleaseThePodcast

• January 23, 2018
• Tagged as: #releasethememo, 702, 702 renewal, about collection, abouts collection, ACLU, ACLU v. Mattis, Anti-Deficiency Act, Appropriations, Carter Page, CFAA, Chesney, Chutkan, cybersecurity, Doe v. Mattis, Enemy Combatant, extradition, FISA, FISA Amendments Reform Act, FISC, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Fourth Amendment, Iraq, John Doe, Judge Chutkan, Max Boot, Minimization, Mueller, Munaf, National Security Act, Nunes, REAL ID Act, SCOTUS, Section 702, Supreme Court, Syria, Title I, to/from collection, Travel Ban, Travel Ban 3.0, Valentine, Vladeck, warrant

Happy anniversary, y’all!  It’s been one full year since we launched this podcast, and we are very grateful for all our listeners.  Here’s hoping there is *less* to discuss in our second year! This week,…

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Episode 53: Tanks, Bombs, Bombs, and Guns

• January 9, 2018
• Tagged as: 702, ACLU, ACLU v. Mattis, AQI, AUMF, Breyer, Dalmazzi, Doe v. Mattis, Dual-Office Holding, Enemy Combatant, FISA, FISC, FISCOR, Golden Globes, habeas, habeas corpus, Hamdi, Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Marbury v. Madison, NFL, Non-Detention Act, O'Connor, Pitch Perfect, Pitch Perfect 3, surveillance

In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck take on three sets of issues under the national security law heading: ACLU v. Mattis (the US citizen enemy combatant case): Since the last episode, the government…

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Episode 46: The $15 Million Dollar Man

• November 15, 2017
• Tagged as: ACLU, covert action, cyber, cybersecurity, detainee, FARA, FISA, FISC, Flynn, GTMO, Guantanamo, Gulen, Mattis, NDAA, nuclear codes, oversight, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sensitive military cyber operations, sensitive military operations, standing, Terminator 2, Thornberry

In this week’s episode, your devoted hosts dig into a bonanza of national security law odds-and-ends. First up is an en banc decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review involving the standing of…

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Episode 37: Enemy Combatants, Agents of Foreign Powers

• September 19, 2017
• Tagged as: 2001 AUMF, Agent of a Foreign Power, AUMF, Authorization for Use of Military Force, electronic surveillance, Enemy Combatant, FISA, FISC, FISC Order, GTMO, Guantanamo, habeas, Hamdi, indictment, IS, Islamic State, Kings of the Wyld, material support, Military Commissions, Mueller, Nicholas Eames, Paul Manafort, SCOTUS, Star Trek, Star Trek Discovery, Star Trek II, Travel Ban, UT Football, wiretap

In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck explore three big national security law developments from the past few days. First up: the news that the FISC, on two separate occasions, issued orders authorizing surveillance…

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Episode 14: Potential Assange Charges, and More From Some Island in the Pacific

• April 25, 2017
• Tagged as: 702, ACLU v. CIA, Conspiracy, Espionage Act, FARA, FISA, Hawaii, Julian Assange, Mike Flynn, National Security Law, PCLOB, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Russia, Sanctuary Cities, Sessions, SSCI, Supreme Court, Torture Report, Trump, Turkey, wikileaks

In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck run through the array of potential criminal charges against Julian Assange and Wikileaks (in light of recent rumblings that DOJ has revived that possibility), and they discuss the prospects…

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Episode 7: The Less Prep the Better

• March 8, 2017
• Tagged as: active defense, CIA, cybersecurity, executive order, FISA, GTMO, Guantanamo, hackback, immigration, Nashiri, refugees, surveillance, Trump, Vault7, wikileaks

In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck live up to their new motto (see the episode title) by wading into the confusion surrounding a pair of recent presidential claims with significant national security law implications:…

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Episode 4: A New Hope

• February 15, 2017
• Tagged as: Bobby Chesney, Espionage Act, FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Guantanamo, Mike Flynn, Periodic Review Board, PRB, Steve Vladeck

In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney come to grips with a number of legal issues raised by the Mike Flynn story.  What the heck is the Logan Act and was it perhaps violated?  What about…