Episode 179: This Podcast Is “Considerably Recalibrated”

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

So we took a week off without warning because, you know, 2020. But we're back, and we sure don't lack for things to discuss and debate! Tune in as co-hosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney weigh in on: The NY Times story reporting a request from AFRICOM to expand targeting authorities involving al Shabaab in Kenya in particular. The President's denial, and then confirmation, that he favored trying to kill Bashar al-Assad. DOJ launching a criminal investigation of former National Security Advisor John Bolton. DOJ moving to interpose the U.S. government as defendant in a defamation suit stemming from President Trump's answer to questions relating to rape allegations. A federal judge's decision to invoke Lochner (!!!) en route to declaring various Pennsylvania public health measures unconstitutional. Whether the military can subject a person to court martial for an offense allegedly committed prior to a break in service, where the person already was prosecuted (unsuccessfully) in a state court. The latest twists and turns with TikTok and WeChat under IEEPA and CFIUS And the Mandalorian trailer...OMG OMG OMG

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 179 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:15.9	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:20.2	It's Tuesday night. It. September 15th. It's
0:23.0	2020. I'm Bobby Chesney and I'm tired. You stole my line. I'm excited. I'm sorry. I'm going to say
0:30.4	Bobby, I'm exhausted. Hey, everybody. We're tired. I'm also going to say beware the eyes of September.
0:36.7	You know, I'm tired in part because of 2020, but I'm also going to say beware the eyes of September. You know, I'm tired in part because of 2020, but I'm also just really tired because now we're a few weeks into the fall semester.
0:44.9	But you know, you're on sabbatical.
0:46.8	You're resting.
0:48.1	You should be you should be happy as a clam, Steve.
0:51.2	Yeah, I've just been spending my days by the pool, you know, sipping
0:55.2	sipping pinia colladas and reading science fiction. If you had a pool in that backyard, I'd be
1:02.0	over there teaching my remote cybersecurity law class on Zoom from Poolside.
1:07.8	There is, there actually is a new Timothy Zon book that I'm actually thinking of reading,
1:12.4	of getting into, a part of the Thron, the Thrawn series in the Star Wars galaxy. Interesting.
1:18.7	Okay. Do we know anything about the plot? Yeah, I don't want to go, I mean, so do you know the
1:22.9	Thron trilogy, the Air to the Empire trilogy? I know of it than I've not read it. Oh, so this is what they
1:27.7	really should have done for episode 7, 8, 9. This was the, this was the right way to have done
1:31.9	episode 7,8, 9, but no one was in. Are you recommending? Should I add this to my list? I didn't
1:36.8	be air to the, I mean, if you like Star Wars stuff, I think I really enjoyed the Air to the Empire trilogy. This is actually now a prequel to that trilogy.
1:46.3	And so I'm just trying to figure out just how much he's already done a couple books about
1:50.5	the main character in those in those books, Grand Admiral Thrawn. And so I'm just trying to
1:55.3	out if I'm up for yet another one or if I'd rather go in a different direction.
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