Tag: GTMO

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Episode 213: Most Likely to Engage in a Seditious Conspiracy

• January 19, 2022
• Tagged as: Article 2(4), civil conspiracy, collective self-defense, Executive Privilege, GTMO, Insurrection, Jim Carrey, military commission, NFL, organized militia, Periodic Review Board, PRB, presidential immunity, Russia, seditious conspiracy, Thompson v. Trump, Trump v. Thompson, Ukraine, UN Charter, unorganized militia

Seeing as how 2022 is well underway, it’s probably about time we produced a new episode!  Tune in for co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney as they discuss and debate: The various international and domestic…

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Episode 211: Behold, our Q4 episode

• November 8, 2021
• Tagged as: ACLU, China, clemency, economic espionage, Fagaza, FISA, FISC, GTMO, Guantanamo, habeas, Haroon Gul, Hekmatyar, HIG, Majid Kahn, military commission, military detention, MSS, Poland, ransomware, REvil, SCOTUS, state secrets

Ah, well, that took a bit longer than expected!  We promise we don’t mean to let this become a quarterly show, or even a monthly.  Too much national security law for that! In today’s episode,…

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Episode 210: The Witness Who Became a Meme

• October 5, 2021
• Tagged as: al Hela, Boumediene, Dorman, Eisentrager, Enemy Combatant, Fazaga, GTMO, Guantanamo, Huawei, Isikoff, Larabee, material support, National Security Division, Naylor, NDAA FY'12, state secrets, suspension, Verdugo-Urquidez, Zubaydah

What’s that?  A new episode?  What have these guys been doing all month… Well, whatever they’ve been doing all September since Episode 209, Professors Vladeck and Chesney are back at last with a new episode. …

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Episode 209: The 20th Anniversary of 9/11

• September 10, 2021
• Tagged as: 9/11, al Qaeda, AUMF, bin Laden, drone strikes, GTMO, mil coms, Military Commissions, surveillance

This week on the National Security Law Podcast, we mark 20 years since the 9/11 attacks.  Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney share their views on the major legal developments unleashed by…

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Episode 208: Afghanistan

• August 16, 2021
• Tagged as: Afghanistan, armed conflict, Article II, AUMF, Biden, GTMO, Kabul, LOAC, NDAA, Postwar, sole organ, Taliban, Trump

In this week’s episode, we focus on the unfolding situation in Afghanistan.

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Episode 206: This Podcast Is Not a State Actor

• July 12, 2021
• Tagged as: al Hela, D.C. Circuit, deterrence, Donald Trump, Due Process Clause, EMAC, escalation risk, GTMO, interagency, Iraq, Julian Assange, Mark Martins, military commission, National Guard, OLC, ransomware, Removal Power, Seila Law, separation of powers, spending power, state action doctrine, TItle 10, Title 32, Twitter

[Updated to fix the audio issue with the original file…though I have to admit, it was very entertaining to hear the hosts speaking an octave too low!)  We’re back with another round of discussion and…

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Episode 204: [Insert Inscrutable Title Here]

• June 14, 2021
• Tagged as: active hostilities, Afghanistan, CFAA, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, exceeds authorized access, Fazaga, First Amendment, FISA, GTMO, IEEPA, Larabee, Leaks, Mets, Mike Flynn, Nosal, PPG, Presidential Policy Guidance, Reporter's Privilege, SCOTUS, State Secrets Privilege, Subpoena, supermax, TikTok, Van Buren, WeChat

Hello from Austin! We’re back with a new episode!  Tune in as your co-hosts Professor Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: SCOTUS narrows the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in Van…

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Episode 202: Back in Steve’s Office

• May 20, 2021
• Tagged as: admissibility, Al Nashiri, CID Treatment, DOJ NSD, Gaza, GTMO, Guantanamo, involuntary statement, Israel, John Demers, Majid Khan, Matt Olsen, MCA, Military Commissions Act, Nashiri, National Security Division, Old Man Star Lord, Torture

Recording episode 202 was something of a milestone for us, because we met in Steve’s office for an in-person recording for the first time since Before.  Wow!  We’re grateful to be back in the “studio,”…

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Episode 199: Why Is There No SJA Aboard the Starship Enterprise?

• April 12, 2021
• Tagged as: al Hadi, al-Tamir, Anne Neuberger, Chris Inglis, cooperating witness, Domestic Terrorism, Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, DT, DTPA, GTMO, Guantanamo, ISIS, Islamic State, Mets, military commission, military judge, minority report, National Cyber Director, prosecutorial discretion, Senator Durbin, Shadow Docket, Tandon, undercover officer

In this week’s episode, co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: The proposed Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act (and DOJ’s January 2021 response to an earlier version of the DTPA) A pair of recent…

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Episode 198: What Tattoo Should Steve Get?

• April 5, 2021
• Tagged as: 12333, 215, 702, Camp 5, Camp 7, DC National Guard, EO 12333, Executive Order 12333, Fifth Amendment, Fourth Amendment, GTMO, Knight First Amendment, PLCOB, procedural due process, SCOTUS, Second Circuit, Terrorist Screening Database, Trump, TSC, TSDB, Twitter, XKEYSCORE

Welcome back!  This week your co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney discuss and debate: The PCLOB’s report on Executive Order 12,333 The government’s decision to shutter Camp 7 at GTMO, consolidating those detainees with others…