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no bull and the aftermath.

One only needs to look at the way in which our senior intelligence leaders talk about

the importance of cooperation to infer just under the surface the way in which the constraints

that operate on one liaison partner by necessity if they're cooperating closely would operate

on another intelligence partners.

So I think that those dynamics are increasingly important.

I think parallel dynamic is the role that foreign courts are playing in shaping and constraining

intelligence environment.

So the courts in Canada and the UK for example have weighed in explicitly on the scope

of liaison relationships and courts in the European Court of Human Rights have rendered

a series of judgments on things like the detention and the interrogation program.

I think it's fair to say that these types of constraints are playing an increasingly

important role.

I'm Cody Poplin and this is the LawFair podcast May 14, 2016.

That was Sam Raskoff explaining how peer constraints are increasingly playing a role in intelligence

oversight.

This week Raskoff came on the show with his co-editor Zachary Goldman to discuss their

new edited volume global intelligence oversight governing security in the 21st century.

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