Tag: Game of Thrones

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Episode 122: That Didn’t Fly for Buchanan…

• May 21, 2019
• Tagged as: Ali Kourani, CIA, civic virtue, Classified Information, congressional subpoena, DIA, Don McGahan, Federal Tort Claims Act, Feres doctrine, FTCA, Game of Thrones, Insurrection Act, James Buchanan, Judge Mehta, Martin v. Mott, material support, motion to quash, National Guard, OLC opinion, Pardon Power, Posse Comitatus, Subpoena, testimonial immunity, Trump v. Committee on Oversight, war crimes

In this week’s episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney discuss and debate: The district court ruling in Trump v. Committee on Oversight, in which the court rejects an attempt to quash a subpoena directed at an accounting…

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Episode 121: The Persian Gulf of Tonkin

• May 15, 2019
• Tagged as: 2001 AUMF, 2002 AUMF, admiralty, al Qaeda, armed conflict, Article 51, Article II, AUMF, Classified Information, CMCR, collective self-defense, conflict of interest, Daniel Hale, FARA, foreign agent registration, Game of Thrones, Gulf of Tonkin, harboring, hostilities, Huawei, Iran, James Cole, Jeremy Scahill, Julian Assange, leak prosecution, Leaks, Military Commissions, national defense information, National Security Law, North Korea, propaganda, sanctions, SCOTUS, self defense, Sputnik, The Intercept, UN Charter, War Powers, War Powers Resolution, wikileaks, WPR

In this week’s episode, Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney debate and discuss the latest national security legal news, including: Iran – The prospect of some form of armed conflict with Iran, and the various legal…

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Episode 120: Bran, Bron, What’s the Difference?

• May 7, 2019
• Tagged as: Brandenburg, CIA, contempt, counterintelligence, cyber operation, distinction, FBI, Game of Thrones, Hamas, incitement, Islamic State, Israel, kinetic operation, material support, proportionality, quash, separation of powers, Subpeona, Take Care Clause, wiretap

And we’re back!  Tune in as Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss and debate the latest national security legal news, including: The legal framework for Congressional subpoenas (and the problems that arise when the Executive Branch…

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Episode 119: This Podcast Is Dark and Full of Spoilers

• April 30, 2019
• Tagged as: 50 USC 1861, Censure, Clapper, Congressional Oversight, DOJ, economic espionage, Elijah Cummings, Game of Thrones, Impeachment, Jewel v. NSA, material support, Mueller Report, NSD, ODNI, Robert Mueller, Section 215, SSP, State Secrets Privilege, Subpoena, sunset, Unmasking

After a one-week hiatus, the NSL Podcast is back!  Tune in for debate and discussion as Professors Vladeck and Chesney talk about: The Mueller Report and its aftermath Impeachment vs Censure The Trump Subpoena litigation…

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Episode 116: This Podcast Can Only Be Detained for Six Months

• April 2, 2019
• Tagged as: 18 U.S.C. 876, 18 USC 956, 21 USC 876, Adham Hasoun, Adham Hassoun, Article II, Bilal Kareem, Bill of Particulars, Bucklew, bulk collection, cash-counting machines, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, DEA, deadpool, Drug Enforcement Agency, Due Process, Due Process Clause, Game of Thrones, Jose Padilla, Mezei, SSP, State Secrets Privilege, Take Care Clause, terrorism, Trump, unenforcement, Zadvydas

Join us as Professors Vladeck and Chesney discuss and debate the latest national security law news!  This week we’ve got: The Adham Hassoun case: Can the government hold a terrorism-related individual in long-term immigration custody…

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Episode 113 – 702 : Madison :: 215 : Hamilton

• March 6, 2019
• Tagged as: 1801(f), 1806, 1810, 50 USC 1861, areas of active hostilities, border emergency, bulk metadata, CFAA, Chelsea Manning, civilian casualties, contact chaining, electronic surveillance, EO 13732, Espionage Act, Fazaga, FBI, Game of Thrones, grand jury, Hamilton, indictment, Judge Berzon, Julian Assange, Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, mosque, National Emergency Act, NEA, Ninth Circuit, phone records, reasonable expectation of privacy, Reynolds, Section 215, SSP, state secrets, State Secrets Privilege, surveillance, USA Freedom Act, veto, wikileaks

So much to debate, so little time! Tune in as Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney plow through a host of recent (and not-so-recent) events in the world of national security law: Fazaga v. FBI –…

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Episode 33: How About a Presidential Pardon…For This Episode

• August 30, 2017
• Tagged as: Arpaio, Constitutional Law, EITs, Emergency Response, FEMA, Game of Thrones, Hurricane Harvey, Japan, National Guard, National Security Law, North Korea, Pardon Power, self defense, Torture

In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck take advantage of a relatively quiet week for national security law developments in order to range across a number of topics. Being in Texas, we are all…

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Episode 32: Back to the Future…of Afghanistan and GTMO?

• August 22, 2017
• Tagged as: Adam Goldman, Afghanistan, AUMF, Charlie Savage, CMCR, Court of Military Commission Review, detention, executive order, Game of Thrones, Guantanamo, Islamic State, military detention, Mississippi v. Johnson, Periodic Review Board, PRB, presidential injunction, recusal, Rules of Engagement, Scott Silliman, Trump

Never a dull moment in 2017.  In this week’s episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney take on four topics (well, four relevant topics…do try to stay with them past their musings on home runs at the Little League…

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Episode 31: We Were Not Mirandized Until Halfway Through This Podcast

• August 16, 2017
• Tagged as: 2331, 2339A, Abu Khattalah, arraignment, Charlottesville, clean team, Common Article 3, Domestic Terrorism, Dreamhost, Fawaz Yunis, Game of Thrones, HIG, High-Value Interrogation Group, material support, Miranda, motion to suppress, Oklahoma City, Operation Goldenrod, presentment, Quarles, Rule 5, Search Warrant, terrorism, Timothy McVeigh, voluntariness

In this week’s episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck make a whole series of blatantly un-Mirandized statements about some of the latest national security law developments.  First, they take up a number of questions relating to…

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Episode 30: Don’t Pop the Accountability Champagne Quite Yet

• August 8, 2017
• Tagged as: Alien Tort Statute, ATS, Attorney General Sessions, AUMF, CIA, DOJ, EIT, EITs, Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, FBI, Game of Thrones, Islamic State, Jeff Sessions, Leaks, Marshall Islands, Ninth Circuit, non-self-execution, NPT, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Philippines, Reporter's Privilege, Salim v. Mitchell, SSCI Report, Torture, UN Charter, Waterboarding

In this bizarrely-titled episode (ok, they pretty much all have bizarre titles, Professors Vladeck and Chesney take on four national security law developments from the past week. First, they explore the district court ruling in Salim…