Episode 103: This Podcast Should Be Dis-BARRed

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

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 his oral history so you don't have to, along with some other writings, and we unpack it all for you here in Episode 103. For good measure, we've also got a close look at the latest GTMO habeas litigant to attempt (vainly, we suspect) to get the attention of SCOTUS, along with notes on recent uses of force in Somalia, DRPK sanctions out of Treasury, and the arrest of the Huawei CFO in Canada (for extradition to face sanctions-avoidance charges in the US). But as usual we saved the best for last: What is your favorite foreign film? We've got about eight of them to discuss, and some common themes emerge. Be sure to hit us up on Twitter (@nslpodcast) with your own favorites!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 103 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:14.0	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. It's Tuesday morning. It is December 11th. I am Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Vladek. Katie,
0:22.8	bar the door. You're lowering the bar for the puns on this podcast. I mean, we have a bar,
0:29.0	we have to review the bar. We have to, we have bar, maybe there's a bar journal. As you can see,
0:34.2	we've been trying to figure out how to use Bill Barr's name in the title of this podcast.
0:39.2	I'm thinking, time for the bar exam?
0:43.1	Studying for the bar exam?
0:45.8	At the bar?
0:47.2	You know, there are a lot of possibilities here.
0:49.0	Yeah, well, maybe we'll debar ourselves from making bar puns throughout the rest of this episode.
0:55.0	This podcast should be disbarred.
0:57.0	Hey, this podcast should be disbarred, B-A-R-R-E-D.
1:01.2	I think that is the clubhouse leader for the episode.
1:03.4	Writing it down.
1:05.9	So today in our running show, I think...
1:09.0	As you can see, there's lots of breaking news that's really
1:10.9	got our attention today.
1:12.2	We've really focused.
1:13.3	I think we're going to spend maybe the bulk of our analytic time talking about things that
1:18.1	Bill Barr has said or written in the past that shed light on what his views might be on issues
1:22.8	that matter to our show, issues of executive power primarily.
1:27.0	And it'll be kind of fun to dig through some of the sources because he has a substantial
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