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The National Security Law Podcast

Episode 205: Road Trip!

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

We're back, with one slightly-older co-host and another co-host who is ready to drive across the country!  Tune in for discussion and debate relating to: The domestic and international law aspects of the Biden administration's decision to conduct airstrikes against Kata'ib Hezbollah targets in Syria and Iraq The ongoing Biden administration internal debate over which rules should govern the use of lethal force in locations other than Syria and Iraq The Supreme Court's denial of cert. concerning warrantless searches of electronic devices at the border (leaving in place a significant circuit split, oddly) The Supreme Court's denial of cert. in a case involving torture claims against a contractor associated with the Abu Ghraib prison The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruling in Begani concerning court-martial jurisdiction over former servicemembers Sentencing for a US translator who became a spy for Hezbollah, providing classified information including the identity of human sources linked to the attack that killed Iran's Suleimani Sentencing for a US person convicted of teaching the making of explosives for purposes of a federal crime of violence Seizure of websites used by Kata'ib Hezbollah and also by an IRGC-affiliated Iranian media group All that, plus the MLB crackdown on scuffed balls and ... Steve's Excellent Cross-Country Road Trip!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 205 of the National Security Law podcast.

0:14.8

We're brought to you by the Schroost Center at the University of Texas.

0:18.2

It's Monday, June 28, 2021. I'm Bobby Chesney. I'm Steve Vladek. Happy birthday.

0:25.6

Thank you, sir. Greetings from the far side of 50. It means I'm the same age as the Charlie and the

0:36.1

Chocolate Factory movie and NPR.

0:40.0

How about that?

0:40.4

That was true before you turned 50.

0:42.9

That's true, but it, this is true.

0:45.3

But what I really mean to say is, we're all 50.

0:48.2

And I like to, that's some pretty fun company.

0:51.1

If I, if I, if I planned appropriately, I would have had the Hawaii 5O music music ready to go right at the, well, even better if you had some Willie Wonka music.

0:59.0

Indeed. Are you a fan? People either love or hate the, you know, the Gene Wilder movie.

1:04.4

I love it. What do you think? I haven't seen it in a long time, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. That's good stuff. Gene Wilders was really amazing.

1:12.6

So, speaking of things that are really amazing, we've got an amazing show lined up because we've got lots of good topics.

1:19.6

Should we do a quick run through?

1:21.6

Sure.

1:22.6

We can do, we got, we got some drone strikes.

1:26.6

Boy, yeah, we've got some good sort. Boy, yeah.

1:27.7

We've got some good sort of traditional core national security law discussions.

1:33.2

We got to go to staying out of some things.

1:35.6

We got me losing a bunch of cases.

1:38.2

There's a good time.

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