Episode 128: Now Witness the Power of this Fully Armed and Operational [PCLOB]!

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2019

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

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 meantime! Professors ____ [full name of celebrity] and [full name of sports star] are here to ____ [verb] all of it. ___ [adjective] ____ [plural noun] on this episode include: Justice Stevens, R.I.P.: We reflect on key national security ____ [plural noun] he wrote or impacted. Border ____ [noun] Litigation Update SCOTUS trends: The ____ [noun] General keeps seeking early SCOTUS involvement in ____ [plural noun]. Steve's forthcoming ____ [name of school] Law Review article ____ [verb ending in -s] explains the significance of all this in terms of the ____ [noun] Docket, as you can read here. PCLOB gears up: The ____ [noun] & Civil [plural noun] Oversight Board is back in action, identifying upwards of __ [number] current projects, including a review involving XKEYSCORE and another concerning _____ [adjective] _____ [plural noun]. Luxemburgers: ____ [name of celebrity] explains what took him to Luxembourg recently and what this had to do with Privacy ____ [noun]. The NDAA inches closer to a ___ [noun] fight: The House _____ [past-tense verb] its version of the NDAA, and it is packed with ____ [plural noun]. The White House may well ____ [verb] the end result, but first we have to see what happens with the _____ [name of an organization] version of the bill and the process of reconciling the two. UCI & Bergdahl: The Army Court of ___ [plural noun] has ruled on Bowe Bergdahl's Unlawful Command Influence appeal, finding that President Trump's Twitter ___ [noun] constituted a ____ [adjective] ____ [noun], but the resulting _____ [noun] was harmless. Casebooks: Just in time for ___ [a year far into the future], Steve and his co-authors ______ [name of rock star], ____ [name of movie star], and ______ [name of politician] have completed the supplement for their casebook on ______ [noun] law. As for frivolity, your co-hosts at long-last present their review of a the ___ [adjective] Star Trek episode "The ______ [name of animal]."

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 128 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:14.5	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:17.5	It's Wednesday afternoon, July 17, 2019. I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve
0:21.9	Vladik. We're back. We're back. Man, it's been a while. I missed you. What's been going on with you?
0:26.6	Well, I think I've traveled farther, but I think you've had more fun. Oh, I definitely. I don't know
0:32.5	exactly what you were doing, but I had a blast because I had a nice little family beach trip with sort of an extended family reunion with about 12 of us in one house.
0:41.1	And what can be more fun where, like, eight of those or, let's see, six of those were young children.
0:48.0	Yeah, you and I have different definitions of fun, but, you know, whatever works.
0:51.9	There really ought to be a word for, that's not quite vacation, that's not quite trip,
0:56.1	that describes what it's like to travel with your entire family.
0:58.8	Those are work trips.
1:00.0	There's particular family.
1:01.8	Family.
1:02.4	Full family trips are work trips for families.
1:05.3	But the thing is like work trips actually, I mean, this is, you know, Karen's on to my great secret.
1:08.9	Like work trips are actually now the best, right?
1:11.2	Like, well, like, work, like, oh, it's like paid work trips.
1:13.6	Right, like, paid work.
1:14.6	Like, you know, you know, sleep by yourself all night, right?
1:18.9	Don't worry about getting up in the morning to change a diaper.
1:22.5	Every, every new parent knows the guilty pleasure when they take a work trip and discover like,
1:27.7	Oh, I'm sorry.
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