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The National Security Law Podcast

Episode 157: At Least There Are No Zombies…Yet

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Back-to-back episodes!  After yesterday's interview-focused show, we wanted to get right back into the mix with discussion and debate over the latest national security law news.  Tune in for:  Beyond quarantine: What happens when local authorities declare an emergency and then bar people *released* from quarantine from being in the city? San Antonio wants to find out...  So Ken Cuccinelli is *not* the Acting Director at US CIS, because he was not properly made the "first assistant" in the chain of succession. Or so says the other Randy Moss. FISA FOIA fix?  A court finds that when the White House said they declassified some Carter Page FISA material, but had not actually done so, FOIA's national security exemption still applied as a result.  Peace with the Afghan Taliban?  We will see.  And we will see, too, what this might mean for "unraveling" the background premise that the law of armed conflict remains applicable as between the United States and al Qaeda-related detainees still in military detention at GTMO.  What does it signify to say that someone "loyally gets appointed"?  A grammatical mess, perhaps, but the phrase nicely captures the current President's (already familiar) understanding: if you work anywhere in his organization, personal loyalty is job one.  Loads of developments relating to the Trump administration's immigration policies, particularly relating to asylum claimants. But nevermind all that.  Tune in just for the Picard frivolity at the end!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 157 of the National Security Law podcast.

0:15.0

We're brought to you by Harry's Razors.

0:17.0

Just kidding.

0:19.0

It's the mattress one.

0:21.5

Casper or something.

0:22.2

No, I'm just kidding.

0:25.7

We don't do ads because we're brought to you by the Robert Strauss Center at the University of Texas.

0:26.8

You're welcome.

0:29.2

It's Wednesday morning, March 4th, 2020.

0:30.0

I'm Bobby Chesney.

0:30.9

I'm Steve Flodic.

0:31.8

I was not ready for that.

0:35.2

Crazy Eddie, his prices are insane.

0:40.2

If we had a sponsor, it would be Crazy Eddie.

0:41.0

You know what?

0:42.3

Maybe that's just it.

0:45.8

Like, I kind of like it that we don't have sponsors because I myself, I listen to a lot of podcasts and I try to click through those as fast as I can.

0:50.0

But maybe if we had the right sponsor.

0:52.5

Like Chico's Bell Bonds, Chico's Bell Bonds.

0:54.5

Chico's Bill Bonds, that would be especially appropriate.

0:57.7

I could go for like, I could do a beer sponsor.

1:00.6

If Austin Beer Works wanted sponsor, I'd be down with that.

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