Episode 232: Top Gun 3: Deflategate!

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

After a week with no electricity, Professors Vladeck and Chesney are back with the latest in national security law news. Tune in for discussions of: the law (or lack thereof) when it comes to balloons, altitude, and aerial espionage sanctions on the Wagner Group and also on various Russians associated with ransomware FBI and DOJ disrupting the Hive ransomware group Majid Khan transferred from GTMO to ... Belize? Ted Olson on the military commissions process Finally, you'll want to watch SNL's "HBO Mario Kart": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiIRlg4Xr5w

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 232 of the National Security Law podcast. We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. It's Thursday morning February 9th, 2003. I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:21.7	I'm Steve Lodick.
0:23.4	Well, Steve, we have electricity at our homes.
0:26.2	Congratulations.
0:27.4	We're back to living in sort of a first world city.
0:31.4	If you don't follow Steve on Twitter, if you do follow Steve on Twitter, you definitely know about this.
0:35.9	I like, by the way, how you threw me under the bus with the provost.
0:39.5	Wait, I did? Yeah. I'm at the, I'm at the Faculty Council Executive Committee meeting on Monday
0:46.2	with, like, with the provost, with the president of the university. Oh, about the electricity deal?
0:50.9	Yeah. Did she make a joke? Yes. I told the provost at a meeting recently she was worried about, you know, so context, Austin lost
1:01.0	electricity in a big way due to an unbelievable ice storm that really just...
1:05.0	Not that unbelievable.
1:06.0	Well, it was unbelievable in the sense that it had a catastrophic effect on the tree canopy
1:10.0	in our city because Austin has a lot of live oaks which keep all their leaves in the sense that it had a catastrophic effect on the tree canopy in our city.
1:11.0	True.
1:15.0	Austin has a lot of live oaks which keep all their leaves in the winter.
1:19.4	So when an ice storm comes through, these trees pick up thousands of pounds of ice.
1:21.2	And it's really, it's awful.
1:22.1	That's really sad.
1:22.2	True.
1:26.9	So anyways, in the, you know, somebody's got to be last to get the power back on. It was us.
1:27.1	And it was our turn.
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