Episode 165: This Podcast Prefers Its Nothing Burgers to Be Medium Rare

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

What a fun episode! Co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck recorded "live" before the Austin Bar Association, as the finale of their day-long Zoom conference. On tap: The ODNI report on FISA statistics: We have a detailed discussion of the highlights, focusing on whether there is cause for alarm in the renews that FBI in some instances failed to get a warrant (as required by statute) before accessing the content of U.S. person communications incidentally collected via 702. Pandemia: What's the real story with the latest Defense Production Act order, the one directed at the meat-processing industry? Flynn-sanity: Will Mike Flynn be pardoned, and if not will recent developments involving the FBI's activities impact his sentence? Will the Supreme Court pave the way for judicial enforcement of Congressional subpoenas of Trump business records, or will it instead foreclose that possibility (and much more than that)? Hey, look, another judge for the 9/11 case at GTMO! All that, plus a review of WestWorld episode 7.

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 165 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:14.3	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:17.1	It's Friday afternoon on May 1st, 2020, and we are recording live before a virtual audience of hundreds of Austin Bar Association members, thanks to the magic of Zoom.
0:26.8	I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:27.9	I'm Steve Lottick.
0:28.7	I think this is our biggest audience ever.
0:31.3	Definitely the best live audience.
0:33.6	Fortunately, we've muted them all, or else the podcast listeners would be overwhelmed by the roar of the causationy of just, you know, cheering and rooting.
0:43.4	And I mean, I just say it would be a definite name.
0:45.4	You can see it in the video.
0:46.9	But last, the podcast listeners have to take our word for it.
0:50.0	So, Bobby, it's May 1st.
0:52.1	May day.
0:53.2	Indeed.
0:54.1	All right. May 1st. May day. Indeed.
0:54.1	All right. May 1st is dawning hot and summery for us.
0:59.2	Texas is open.
1:01.7	Texas is open for summer is the headline.
1:04.1	We got 100 degrees coming up soon.
1:06.3	I was being somewhat sarcastic too, but that's okay.
1:09.0	Exactly.
1:10.2	So for those who aren't with us on the live recording here, what's going on is the Austin Bar
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