Barring an unlikely spate of more than a dozen episodes happening over the next week, it sure looks like Steve has won his bet with Bobby, for this marks the 16th episode of 2023. Ouch,…
Episode 179: This Podcast Is “Considerably Recalibrated”
- September 15, 2020
- Tagged as: al Shabaab, al Shabab, Assad, assassination, Associated Forces, AUMF, Baby Yoda, break in service, CFIUS, Charlie Savage, defamation, double-jeopardy, drone strike, EO 12333, Eric Schmitt, Espionage Act, Federal Tort Claims Act, FTCA, IEEPA, John Bolton, Kenya, Lochner, Manda, Mandalorian, New York Times, public health, rational basis review, Somalia, TikTok, Trump, UCMJ, WeChat, Westfall Act, Williamson v. Lee Optical
So we took a week off without warning because, you know, 2020. But we’re back, and we sure don’t lack for things to discuss and debate! Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney…
This week on the National Security Law Podcast, we’ve got: A heavy pace of airstrikes against al Shabaab targets in Somalia Ruminations on declining media attention (and the prospect of a sharper dropoff soon) to…
Episode 103: This Podcast Should Be Dis-BARRed
- December 11, 2018
- Tagged as: Academy Awards, al Alwi, Attorney General Barr, Bill Barr, Deployment Power, DPRK, foreign films, GTMO, habeas, Huawei, IEEPA, Judge Garland, Justice Kavanaugh, Miller Center, OFAC, Oscars, Persian Gulf War, PPG, sanctions, SCOTUS, Somalia, Treasury Department, War Powers, War Powers Resolution, William Barr, WPR, Youngstown
Interested in the views of Once and Future Attorney General Bill Barr on questions like the power of the president to initiate a war, remove officials, and other hot separation of powers topics? We read…
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…
Episode 49: Around the Horn With Interrogation, Detention, Prosecution, and Targeting
- December 12, 2017
- Tagged as: 2001 AUMF, 2002 AUMF, ACLU v. Mattis, Akayed Ullah, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Bill Castle, Enemy Combatant, GTMO, Guantanamo, habeas, habeas corpus, Hambali, interrogation, jurisdictional discovery, Lindsey Graham, Military Commissions, Miranda, movies, national security, National Security Law, presentment, public safety exception, Quarles, Somalia
In this week’s episode, Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney pick up the thread on a handful of familiar issues, and introduce a few new ones as well. Interrogation: Their first topic is a blend, actually:…
Episode 23: She Could Be the Ruckelshaus to Rosenstein’s Richardson
- June 13, 2017
- Tagged as: Adam Smith, al Shabaab, AUMF, Bob Mueller, Comey, cyber operations, executive order, HASC, Hezbollah, IEEPA, Jeff Sessions, material support, oversight, Rachel Brand, recusal, Rosenstein, SASC, SCOTUS, Somalia, Supreme Court, Thornberry, Travel Ban, Trump
In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney come up with a tongue-twister of a title while exploring the legal fallout from the Comey testimony last week, including discussions of (1) whether Comey’s actions were illegal…
Episode 8 (about 58 minutes long) finds Professors Vladeck and Chesney discussing the legal, policy, and institutional issues raised by reports that President Trump has authorized CIA to resume control of drone operations in some circumstances,…