Episode 120: Bran, Bron, What’s the Difference?

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

And we're back! Tune in as Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss and debate the latest national security legal news, including: The legal framework for Congressional subpoenas (and the problems that arise when the Executive Branch is not inclined to support prosecutions to enforce criminal contempt) The policy and legal issues raised by an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas facility associated with cyber operations, which occurred in the midst of a massive exchange of rockets, missile, mortars, and more A conviction in a material-support-to-IS case in which the support consisted of online recruiting, which raises interesting questions from a First Amendment perspective An arrest in a bizarre case in which a contractor engaged in translating wiretaps of a terrorism suspect tried to hide the fact that the suspect was recorded calling, well, the translator A guilty plea for a former CIA officer who was recruited by Chinese intelligence through financial inducements Ah, but all that is just the appetizer. Game of Thrones Episode 4 ran on Sunday night, and these guys are not happy about how it went...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 120 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:12.7	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:16.0	It's Tuesday, May 7th, 2019. I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:19.2	I'm Steve Vladic. Bobby, I think I can say my
0:21.7	baseball season is quickly coming to an end. Why do you say that? The Mets are terrible.
0:26.8	You were not too surprised by this, I assume? I'm a little surprised that it happened so
0:31.0	quickly. I thought it would be a longer, slower, slower, painful...
0:34.0	It was a nicer last year with that, like, false, happy start.
0:40.4	The Texas baseball team also not doing so hot.
0:43.0	And what else is going poorly?
0:44.9	Wait, the Astros are in first place.
0:46.1	Oh, you mean the UT baseball team? I meant UT.
0:46.5	Oh, I thought you're...
0:47.0	The Texas baseball team.
0:47.6	Oh, the...
0:48.3	Astros are doing good.
0:49.4	Yeah.
0:50.0	All right.
0:50.3	Well, speaking of things, we're doing good. Are in the Game of Thrones Deadpool? Yeah, the faculty and staff, UT law.
0:57.6	Faculty, you and me.
0:59.4	Hey, who's in first and second place?
1:01.3	Oh, there you go.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.