Episode 145: The Meh-mometer Is Stuck at Meh

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Happy Thanksgiving to all! If you are stuck in an airport or on a long drive this week, we've got you covered for at least one hour, as Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss and debate: The military commission cases: we provide a full "reset" bringing you up to speed on where things stand with each of the major cases (including a reminder about an important pending motion in the 9/11 case) National Cupcake Day gives way to the Ides of March, as Congress pushes the sunset for several notable FISA provisions from 12/15/19 to 3/15/20 The Secretary Esper/Spencer dispute and the good-order-and-discipline issue raised by the president's intervention in the Gallagher case CENTCOM and SDF get the band back together in Syria, and detainees result...which is a timely reminder that we still depend on SDF to run detention ops in Syria. Subpoena time for Don McGahn? We consider the prospects on appeal, as well as the implications for former National Security Advisor John Bolton. But of course what you really want to know is what your hosts think of episode 3 of the Mandalorian. That, plus Lamar Jackson!

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin. Welcome to episode 145 of the National Security Law Podcast. We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. It's Tuesday afternoon. It's November 26th, 2019. It is almost Thanksgiving. I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:23.4	I'm Steve Loddick, and if you are traveling, as I am with the Wii ones, good luck.
0:28.7	When do you leave?
0:29.9	We leave tomorrow, Wednesday. We are flying hopefully to Los Angeles, to L-A-X.
0:35.3	So you've chosen one of the few routes that's relatively unlikely to be deeply disrupted.
0:42.0	You're not going right into the teeth of the bomb cyclone, are you?
0:44.7	I don't believe the bomb cyclone is anywhere near Los Angeles, although L.A. has its own
0:48.6	natural disasters of plenty.
0:50.4	But, you know, you never, cascading travel delays, you never know.
0:53.9	Are you an early morning flight?
0:55.5	It's noon.
0:56.8	Yeah, so some of our listeners, we realize you're going to be listening to this.
0:59.7	Maybe you got the...
1:00.4	Maybe in transit.
1:01.2	In transit.
1:02.1	I hope you're not stuck somewhere.
1:04.3	I hope it's not turning into planes, trains, and automobiles for you.
1:08.1	But we're here to keep you company for at least an hour.
1:11.2	What have we got today?
1:12.2	We've got, well, we've got the long-awaited military commission catch-up episode.
1:18.2	We still won't do it justice.
1:19.5	No, we won't, but well, so we'll cover some of it.
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