Welcome back for another episode of the National Security Law Podcast, with Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney. It has been another not-at-all slow week. On tap for today: The CLOUD Act: It’s now the…
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…
Out on spring break but still listening to the podcast? We love it! Actually, your hosts Professors Chesney and Vladeck are out on spring break too, but before they left town they sat down to…
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…
Episode 60: TL;DL – This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
- February 21, 2018
- Tagged as: al Darbi, Attachment Immunity, CareFirst, DACA, Darbi, data breach, Doe v. Mattis, DOJ, Enemy Combatant, Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, FSIA, GTMO, Guantanamo, identity theft, Internet Research Agency, Iran, JASTA, John Doe, Judge Spath, Judgment Immunity, Justice Department, Litigation Immunity, Military Commissions, Mueller, National Security Law, NDAA, Rubin, Rubin v. Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, SCOTUS, spath, speculative injury, Spokeo, standing, terrorism prosecution, Trump
An over-long episode with a short title to reflect a very busy–and somewhat bizarre–eight day stretch in the wide world of national security law. This week, your hosts Professors Chesney and Vladeck weigh in on:…
Episode 59: Share the Cookies
- February 13, 2018
- Tagged as: #mehmo, 2001 AUMF, 2002 AUMF, 9/11, ACORN, Bill of Attainder, Convening Authority, Darbi, death penalty, Doe v. Mattis, DOJ, Due Process, GTMO, Guantanamo, Harvey Rishikoff, IS, ISIS, Islamic State, Japanese Internment, Jeff Sessions, Kaspersky, KSM, learned counsel, MilComs, Military Commissions, Mueller, Nashiri, National Council of Resistance, NDA, NDAA, Noel Francisco, Non-Detention Act, Nunes, plea bargain, Rachel Brand, Rod Rosenstein, Russia, Schiff, spath, Trump
We don’t lack for topics this week! In today’s episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney eat a number of cookies while talking about the following: Rachel Brand steps down at DOJ. As George III might say,…
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…
Episode 56: The State of the Uniom Is…ExStravagant!
- January 30, 2018
- Tagged as: #releasethedissent, #releasethememo, CAATSA, Carpenter, Combatting America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, Gary Clark Jr., Grammys, GTMO, Guantanamo, HPSCI, McGahn, military detention, Morrison v. Olson, Mueller, Nunes, Periodic Review Board, PRB, Removal, Rosenstein, Russia, sanctions, Special Counsel, Strava, third-party rule
You might not want to watch the State of the Union tonight, but don’t miss this episode of the podcast! This week we cover: The missing Russia sanctions? A statute enacted last summer appears at first…
Ep. 54: Family Ties or Family Matters?
- January 17, 2018
- Tagged as: 30 Rock, 702, about collection, armed conflict, Arrested Development, AUMF, backdoor search, Big Bang Theory, CCR, Center for Constitutional Rights, Cheers, Cosby, Dalmazzi, DNI, DNI Coats, Dual-Office Holding, duration of hostilities, Family Matters, Family Ties, FBI, Fourth Amendment, Frasier, Friends, Growing Pains, GTMO, Guantanamo, habeas, IAC, LOAC, MASH, Modern Family, NDAA, NIAC, NSA, ODNI, President Trump, privacy, Reprieve, SCOTUS, Section 702, Seinfeld, sitcoms, Supreme Court, surveillance, The Goldbergs, Trump, Unmasking, warrants
And we’re back, with another weekly dose of national security legal news and analysis. Fresh off the stove this week we have: Dalmazzi – Steve is just returned from his first Supreme Court argument, in…
Episode 52: Trump Derangement Syndrome or a Distraction from the Forever War?
- January 3, 2018
- Tagged as: Afghanistan, areas of active hostilities, Army Field Manual, Enemy Combatant, EO 13491, EO 13492, EO 13567, executive order, GCIII, GCIV, GTMO, Guantanamo, interrogation, Iraq, Last Jedi, NSA, Periodic Review Board, PPD 28, PPG, PRB, privacy, Privacy Shield, PSP, security internment, Somalia, surveillance, Syria, use of force, Waterboarding
Merry New Year! 2018 is underway, but in today’s episode we are looking back at 2017. More specifically, we are looking back to predictions made in early 2017 regarding the changes President Trump surely would…