Our latest episode is shorter than normal because…well, we recorded most of it and then lost the file. Suffice to say we were a bit tired by the time the re-recording was done! Or maybe…
We may be on home lockdown, but that didn’t stop us from recording! Thanks to the magic of Zoom, we gathered online to record this episode, and just for kicks we recorded the video while…
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 155: This Podcast Is Not Wearing a Facemask (But It Did Wash Its Hands)
- February 26, 2020
- Tagged as: APA, Bivens, bulk metada, Call Detail Records, coronavirus, Costa Mesa, covid-19, FISA, FISC, Grenell, Hernandez, isolation, Judge Leon, Larabee, lone wolf, Maguire, ODNI, PCLOB, Picard, quarantine, roving wiretap, Sacramento v. Lewis, SCOTUS, Section 215, Trumplandia, USA Freedom Act, USA PATRIOT Act
This week in the wild world of national security law, your co-hosts Professors Vladeck and Chesney discuss and debate: The prospects for legislative change to FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act), including notes on a…
What fun! We recorded this one in front of a large live audience at the Annual Review of the Field conference run by the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, and we did…
Episode 128: Now Witness the Power of this Fully Armed and Operational [PCLOB]!
- July 17, 2019
- Tagged as: 12333, 215, 702, Border Wall, Bowe Bergdahl, CDRs, Common Article 3, ECJ, Hamdan, Harvard Law Review, Justice Stevens, Luxembourg, Mad Libs, Military Commissions, National Security Law, NDAA, Noel Francisco, Padilla, PCLOB, Pegasus, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Privacy Shield, Rasul, Schrems, Shadow Docket, Solicitor General, Star Trek, UCI, Unlawful Command Influence, USA Freedom Act, Will Baude, XKEYSCORE
For our latest episode, we offer you NSL Podcast Mad Libs in lieu of show notes! We’re back after a __ [number]-week break, and there have been some ____ [noun] security law developments in the…
Episode 127: It’s Bobby Bonilla Day!
- July 1, 2019
- Tagged as: 2808 funds, Border Wall, Charlie Savage, Chief Justice Roberts, Crypto Wars, deference, Department of Commerce v. New York, Doe v. Mattis, going dark, Iraq, MFIA, military construction, National Security Law, Phone Metadata, Saudi Arabia, SCOTUS, Section 215, Sierra Club, transparency, USA Freedom Act
Welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast, where co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck cross-swords with courtesy and nerdistry while reviewing the latest national security legal news (along with a healthy does of frivolity…
Episode 113 – 702 : Madison :: 215 : Hamilton
- March 6, 2019
- Tagged as: 1801(f), 1806, 1810, 50 USC 1861, areas of active hostilities, border emergency, bulk metadata, CFAA, Chelsea Manning, civilian casualties, contact chaining, electronic surveillance, EO 13732, Espionage Act, Fazaga, FBI, Game of Thrones, grand jury, Hamilton, indictment, Judge Berzon, Julian Assange, Madison, McCulloch v. Maryland, mosque, National Emergency Act, NEA, Ninth Circuit, phone records, reasonable expectation of privacy, Reynolds, Section 215, SSP, state secrets, State Secrets Privilege, surveillance, USA Freedom Act, veto, wikileaks
So much to debate, so little time! Tune in as Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney plow through a host of recent (and not-so-recent) events in the world of national security law: Fazaga v. FBI –…
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 107: Clearly Right, Once Again
- January 22, 2019
- Tagged as: Al Nashiri, bulk metadata, CMCR, contact chaining, D.C. Circuit, FISA, inquorate, instant replay, IRTPA, KSM, lone wolf, mil coms, Military Commissions, Nashiri, National Security Law, ODNI, overtime, recognition, replay, roving wiretap, Saints, SCOTUS, Section 215, transgender service ban, USA Freedom Act, USA PATRIOT Act, Venezuela
Welcome back to the National Security Law Podcast! Where else can you get both a preview of a looming surveillance law debate *and* a fine-grained debate about how best for the NFL to address blown…