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Episode 22: A Dose of Reality

• June 6, 2017
• Tagged as: Carpenter v. United States, Comey, ECPA, Espionage Act, executive order, Flynn, Fourth Amendment, Kuschner, Non-Content Information, Reality Winner, Riley v. California, SCA, Search, Smith v. Maryland, Stored Communications Act, Third Party Doctrine, Travel Ban, Trump, United States v. Jones, United States v. Miller

In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck have a full plate.  The arrest of a contractor named Reality Winner (for having stolen classified information relating to Russian efforts to hack a voting-machine system and providing that…

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Episode 20: The Executive Branch’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Week in Court

• May 25, 2017
• Tagged as: ACLU, Clapper, Establishment Clause, executive order, Fourth Circuit, immigration, IRAP, Joshua Tree, Motion to Dismiss, NSA, Section 702, standing, State Secrets Privilege, Trump, U2, WIkimedia

It has only been a few days since Episode 19, but Steve and Bobby are worried that fellow national security law geeks won’t have enough @nslpodcast to enjoy during long Memorial Day Weekend roadtrips.  That, plus…

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Episode 18: Disclosing Secrets to the Russians Makes Me WannaCry

• May 15, 2017
• Tagged as: Brad Smith, Classified Information, FBI, Jim Comey, Lavrov, McMaster, Microsoft, National Security Law, Rod Rosenstein, Russia, Trump, VEP, Vulnerability E, WannaCry, WannaCrypt

The guys came back to the office tonight for a rare evening recording session, inspired by a combination of hot-off-the-presses news about the president talking out of turn to the Russians, lack of interest in…

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Episode 17: On the Firing of Jim Comey

• May 10, 2017
• Tagged as: Charles Bonaparte, Comey, FBI, FBI Director, Flynn, Jim Comey, Richard Burr, Rod Rosenstein, Russia, Trump

Yes Episode 16 just dropped yesterday, but given the firing of Jim Comey we felt duty bound to get back to the microphones ASAP.  And so here you will find Bobby and Steve reviewing and debating…

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Episode 14: Potential Assange Charges, and More From Some Island in the Pacific

• April 25, 2017
• Tagged as: 702, ACLU v. CIA, Conspiracy, Espionage Act, FARA, FISA, Hawaii, Julian Assange, Mike Flynn, National Security Law, PCLOB, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Russia, Sanctuary Cities, Sessions, SSCI, Supreme Court, Torture Report, Trump, Turkey, wikileaks

In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck run through the array of potential criminal charges against Julian Assange and Wikileaks (in light of recent rumblings that DOJ has revived that possibility), and they discuss the prospects…

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Episode 12: R2P From Above? The Shayrat Airfield Strike and More

• April 11, 2017
• Tagged as: Assad, AUMF, Castro, CBP, Chesney, cruise missile, habeas, R2P, responsibility to protect, self defense, Shayrat, Syria, Trump, Twitter, UN Charter, Vladeck

In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck go deep into the weeds regarding the legal issues raised by President Trump’s decision to launch missiles at the Shayrat Airfield in Syria, in the wake of the sarin…

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Episode 11: All of This Has Happened Before, and Will Happen Again

• April 5, 2017
• Tagged as: al Qosi, Battlestar Galactica, Bowe Bergdahl, Court of Military Commission Review, Detainees, Force Feeding, Guantanamo, Incidental Collection, Jim Comey, Masking, Minimization, NSC, Steve Bannon, Susan Rice, Targeting, Trump, Unlawful Command Influence, Unmasking

In today’s episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney come to grips yet again with surveillance law and policy issues thanks to the ever-fascinating Trump/Russia story, this time accounting for the President’s accusation that then-National Security Advisor Susan…

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Episode 10: Is This Podcast Cert-Worthy?

• March 29, 2017
• Tagged as: ACLU, Bahlul, FISC, Guantanamo, Mike Flynn, Military Commissions, Mosul, Nashiri, refugees, Sally Yates, Trump

In this hour-long episode, Professors Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney open by unpacking the ins-and-outs of two Guantanamo military commissions cases currently seeking Supreme Court review: the al-Nashiri case (which could give the Court a…

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Episode 9: [USperson 1] and [USperson 2] Discuss [Redacted]

• March 24, 2017
• Tagged as: Comey, denaturalization, expatriation, going dark, HPSCI, Nunes, Trump

In this episode, [USperson 1] and [USperson 2] discuss whether the law was violated by [USperson 3] when [he/she] spoke to [USpersons 4-17] about alleged surveillance of [USperson 18] or perhaps various [USpersons] working for…

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Episode 7: The Less Prep the Better

• March 8, 2017
• Tagged as: active defense, CIA, cybersecurity, executive order, FISA, GTMO, Guantanamo, hackback, immigration, Nashiri, refugees, surveillance, Trump, Vault7, wikileaks

In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck live up to their new motto (see the episode title) by wading into the confusion surrounding a pair of recent presidential claims with significant national security law implications:…