This is our second lockdown episode, simulcast as a Zoom-based video! If you didn’t believe us before about our commitment to production authenticity, well you will if you watch the video version! [ed. note: guys, that’s…
Episode 158: What SCOTUS Can Learn from Franklin Barbecue
- March 11, 2020
- Tagged as: Afghanistan, AR 190-8, Army Regulation 190-8, Article II, Call Detail Records, CDRs, coronavirus, covid-19, CSC, Cyberspace Solarium Commission, Defense Department General Counsel, escalation risk, FISA, Franklin Barbecue, GTMO, Guantanamo, ICC, lone wolf, national self defense, Paul Ney, Picard, Roving Wiretaps, SCOTUS, Section 215, social distancing, Soleimani, sunset, Supreme Court, USA Freedom Act, war crimes, Westworld
Are you “working” from home now? Perhaps it’s time to take a break and enjoy the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast. In a discussion that takes the goal of let’s-not-prepare-too-much to new…
Episode 157: At Least There Are No Zombies…Yet
- March 4, 2020
- Tagged as: al Qaeda, asylum, CIS, coronavirus, covid-19, Cuccinelli, declassification, DHS, emergency, first assistant, FISA, FISC, FOIA, FVRA, GTMO, Guantanamo, immigration, isolation, Judge Moss, loyally gets appointed, metering, military detention, NIMBY, OLC, Picard, quarantine, right to travel, Sessions, Taliban, Texas Government Code
Back-to-back episodes! After yesterday’s interview-focused show, we wanted to get right back into the mix with discussion and debate over the latest national security law news. Tune in for: Beyond quarantine: What happens when local…
Episode 156: This Podcast Is VUCA!
- March 3, 2020
- Tagged as: 9/11, CFAA, General John Baker, GTMO, Guantanamo, Military Commissions, Military Commissions Act, Nashiri
We are back with an interview-focused episode! Tune in as Professors Chesney and Vladeck interview Brigadier General John G. Baker, USMC. General Baker is Chief Defense Counsel for the military commissions at Guantanamo. And, yes,…
Episode 153: This Podcast Has All the Elsas (But No Eminem)
- February 12, 2020
- Tagged as: Biggs, Bill Barr, CDC, diplomatic assurances, Donald Trump, GTMO, habeas, imminent attack, Iran, Iraq, Larabee, Main DOJ, Military Whistleblowers Protection Act, non refoulement, Omar Ameen, prosecutorial discretion, prosecutorial independence, quarantine, Roger Stone, SCOTUS, sentencing guidelines, Soleimani, UCMJ, Vindman, War Powers
And we’re back, with a fresh episode at last. Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate the latest national security law developments. This week they cover: Donald Trump pressuring Main…
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…
Episode 141: The House Has Voted to Authorize This Podcast
- October 30, 2019
- Tagged as: Abdulrazzaq, al-Baghdadi, Baghdadi, Congressional Oversight, covert action, Cuccineli, Delta Force, DHS, Federal Vacancies Reform Act, FVRA, Gang of Eight, GoT, GTMO, Guantanamo, habeas, Impeachment, Impeachment inquiry, ISIS, Islamic State, SOF, Speaker Pelosi, TItle 10, Title 50, TMA, Trumplandia, World Series
Granted, it’s not Days of Future Past, but our episode 141 is still pretty good! This week, Professors Vladeck and Chesney discuss and debate: The al-Baghdadi raid (and misunderstandings about Congressional notification) A GTMO habeas…
Episode 139: Hello from Austin…Hall?
- October 17, 2019
- Tagged as: AUMF, Boston, botnet, Christopher Krebs, CISA, Cuccineli, DDoS, detention, DHS, Elsheikh, Executive Privilege, FVRA, GTMO, Guantanamo, Impeachment, Judge Rao, Kotey, material support, Military Commissions, military detention, MLAT, NDAA FY'12, Subpoena, Syria, the Beatles, Trumplandia, Turkey, US-UK
We recorded today before a live audience in Austin! Austin Hall, that is, on the campus of Harvard Law School! Special thanks to Matt Morris and the great students of the Harvard National Security &…
Episode 136: This Podcast Needs a Reboot!
- September 18, 2019
- Tagged as: Acting DNI, Brute Squad, Burr, Coming to America, DNI, Executive Privilege, Fifth Amendment, GTMO, HPSCI, ICWPA, Joe Maguire, Johnson v. Eisentrager, Judge Rao, Kiyemba, Marbury v. Madison, Military Commissions, pre-publication review, Princess Bride, Qassim, Schiff, Snowden, SSCI, Verdugo-Urquidez, Warner, whistleblower protection
And we’re back, with a lot of news to cover! Tune in for discussion and (respectful) debate with our cohosts, Professors Vladeck and Chesney, as the review: Is it proper for the DNI to withhold…
Tune in to the latest episode of the National Security Law Podcast as your co-hosts Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss and debate: On the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks: which elements of current counterterrorism…
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