Episode 156: This Podcast Is VUCA!

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We are back with an interview-focused episode! Tune in as Professors Chesney and Vladeck interview Brigadier General John G. Baker, USMC. General Baker is Chief Defense Counsel for the military commissions at Guantanamo. And, yes, there's frivolity at the end...Bills-themed frivolity!

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin.
0:10.2	Welcome to episode 156 of the National Security Law podcast brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:16.5	It's Tuesday morning, March 3rd in 2020.
0:21.6	I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve V Vladik, and we have a first on the podcast.
0:24.6	What is that first, Steve?
0:26.6	We have a flag officer in the room.
0:28.6	Attention on deck?
0:29.6	Neither of us need to do that, but you know.
0:31.6	So we're honored to have General John Baker,
0:34.6	bring to our General U.S. Marine Corps,
0:36.6	who is the Chief Defense Council for the Guantanamo
0:39.3	Military Commissions, which is a pretty boring,
0:42.0	dry, uninteresting job, right?
0:44.2	That's right.
0:45.2	An Indian job.
0:46.7	An ending job.
0:48.5	Yes, it's like the Hotel California of
0:50.8	lawyer jobs.
0:52.6	That actually seems to be true a lot about a lot of folks who've been enmeshed in the proceedings
0:58.4	down there.
0:58.8	General Baker, welcome to the podcast.
1:00.4	Thank you.
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