Episode 138: “That’s Nobody’s Business But the Turks”

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In addition to quoting They Might Be Giants lyrics, this week's episode features cohosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck taking on three big issues: The Impeachment Inquiry & the White House Counsel's Letter on Non-Cooperation President Trump's decision to abandon America's Kurdish allies and thus set in motion the potential release of thousands of Islamic State fighters A set of newly-declassified decisions by the FISC (and FISC-R) involving the latest round of Section 702 certification, including a finding that compliance problems at FBI (with respect to running US person queries of the 702 database) amounted, in the totality of the circumstances, to a Fourth Amendment violation. As for frivolity: the world of sportsball meshed with foreign relations as the NBA quivered in the face of a Beijing backlash, all triggered by a tweet from the Rockets' GM. "It is time for us all to decide who we are..."

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin. Welcome to episode 138 of the National Security Law podcast. We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. It's Wednesday morning, October 9th, 2019. I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Lodick. You got this look. I wish
0:23.1	all could see Steve's look. He's got this sort of, I'm at the edge, at the precipice kind of look
0:29.3	on his face. I'm also hungry because it's Yom Kippur. Okay. And, you know, I...
0:33.8	This is adding to your... I really shouldn't even be recording a podcast on M. Kippur.
0:37.5	I shouldn't be working on M. Kapoor.
0:39.2	Sorry, God.
0:40.6	But my creative New York liberal Jewish interpretation of Yom Kippur is as long as I fast,
0:45.9	I can still perform other services.
0:48.2	It's very, very reform of you.
0:49.5	Oh, yes.
0:50.5	Ultra reform, you might say.
0:52.1	Ultra reform, you might say. Ultra reform. But I will say to those of you who are listening to this on the far side, I hope you had
0:57.0	an easy fast and happy New Year and all of those things.
1:00.0	Yep.
1:01.0	Merry New Year!
1:02.0	Merry New Year!
1:03.0	So...
1:04.0	Trade in place's reference.
1:05.0	Yeah.
1:06.0	So, you know, it's funny.
1:07.0	We didn't record last week, which is, by the way, mostly my fault.
1:10.0	Sorry everybody.
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