Episode #101: Jameel Jaffer, Bob Litt, and Bill Banks Debate FISA
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 20 November 2014
⏱️ 108 minutes
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The ACLU's Jameel Jaffer, ODNI General Counsel Robert Litt, and Syracuse Law's William Banks debate FISA. Laura Donohue of Georgetown law school moderate at the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security's 24 Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law.
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| 0:52.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittess and this is the Law Fair Podcast November 22nd 2014. |
| 1:21.8 | In the red corner, it's Jamil Jaffer of the ACLU whose voice you just heard. |
| 1:27.4 | In the blue corner, it's ODNI General Counsel Bob Lit, our ref, Laura Donahue of Georgetown Law. |
| 1:35.9 | And to leave the boxing metaphor aside for a moment, we also have the Estimable Bill Banks of Syracuse University Law School. |
| 1:43.9 | It's a debate about Pfizer, the venue, the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Securities 24th. |
| 1:51.6 | The annual review of the Field of National Security Law which took place earlier this month at the Capitol Hill. |
| 1:58.7 | The debate covered the 215 program, the USA Freedom Act which this week's Senate Republican spiked. |
| 2:05.7 | The 702 program and prism and lots, lots more. |
| 2:10.7 | It's the Law Fair Podcast, a debate on Pfizer. |
| 2:21.6 | The point of this panel is to do a deep dive on Pfizer. |
| 2:31.2 | So, and to think about not just Section 215 and Section 702, we're also going to touch on the Executive Order 12 triple three. |
| 2:41.2 | And then move to a blue skies approach. |
| 2:43.2 | What if we didn't have the USA Patriot Act, Pfizer or the FAA? |
| 2:46.8 | How would we think about the future of foreign intelligence? |
| 2:49.8 | And I can think of no better people to be here today to discuss this than our panelists. |
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