Tag: FISC

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Episode 65: Caging a Tiger

• March 21, 2018
• Tagged as: Abassi, al Alwi, Andrew McCabe, Andrew Woods, Article III Standing, Bivens, Cambridge Analytica, Convening Authority, encryption, Facebook, FBI, FISC, FISCOR, Gary Brown, going dark, GTMO, Hernandez v. Mesa, Mattis, Military Commissions, Mueller, Phantom Secure, Rishikoff, S.J. Res. 54, Special Counsel, Trump, War Powers, Yemen, Ziglar

With apologies for short shownotes, here are the headlines for this week’s NSL Podcast: The McCabe firing The prospect of legislation permitting judicial review of any decision to fire Mueller An update of the declaration…

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Episode 62: Wait–We Have to Talk About GATT?!?

• March 5, 2018
• Tagged as: abatement, ACLU, al Qaeda, AQAP, Article II, Associated Forces, AUMF, Bill Castle, Burr, China, commander in chief, Commerce Department, DOD GC, dumping, Executive Privilege, FISA, FISC, FISCOR, GATT, GTMO, Hope Hicks, HPSCI, interlocutory appeal, IS, ISIS, Islamic State, military commission, Nashiri, Nunes, override, sanctions, SCOTUS, Secretary Ross, sole organ, spath, SSCI, Steel, Tariffs, Trade Expansion Act, Trump, USA Freedom Act, War Powers Resolution, Warner, WPR, WTO, Wyden, Yemen

It’s not every week on this show that we get to talk about the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade!  And if that’s not an appealing hook to get…

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Episode 61: Judge Pohl Says: “Hold My Beer”

• February 27, 2018
• Tagged as: 9/11, ACLU, anti-terrorism act, Arab Bank, ATA, Convening Authority, DACA, Darbi, data, extraterritoriality, FISA, FISC, FISCOR, FISCR, HPSCI, JASTA, Judge Pohl, Judge Spath, MCA, McCarthy, Microsoft. CLOUD Act, Military Commissions, Nashiri, Nunes, Patchak, Rishikof, Rubin, Russia, SCA, Schiff Memo, SCOTUS, Senator Kaine, Stored Communications Act, territoriality

No shortage of topics this week, but then again there was no shortage last week, or before that, or…ever.  So, what’s on tap?  Tune in to hear Professors Chesney and Vladeck explore: A host of…

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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 10: Is This Podcast Cert-Worthy?

• March 29, 2017
• Tagged as: ACLU, Bahlul, FISC, Guantanamo, Mike Flynn, Military Commissions, Mosul, Nashiri, refugees, Sally Yates, Trump

In this hour-long episode, Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney open by unpacking the ins-and-outs of two Guantanamo military commissions cases currently seeking Supreme Court review: the al-Nashiri case (which could give the Court a…