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The National Security Law Podcast

Episode 55: #ReleaseThePodcast

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Happy anniversary, y'all!  It's been one full year since we launched this podcast, and we are very grateful for all our listeners.  Here's hoping there is *less* to discuss in our second year! This week, we've got: The FISA Amendments Reform Act: How exactly does the new warrant requirement work, what it do with "about" collection, and how did it approach the question of "parallel construction"? #ReleaseTheMemo:  What the heck is this all about? Must the government have a statutory or treaty basis to transfer John Doe (a Saudi-US dual-citizen held for many months now in US military custody in Iraq, and the petitioner in Doe v. Mattis) to the custody of a third country? Travel Ban 3.0: on its way to SCOTUS in what is shaping up to be a blockbuster term. The REAL ID Act and the expiration of a key deadline for travelers from certain states and territories. The Anti-Deficiency Act and what it means for the pay of military personnel when the government is shutdown. A temporary grant of authority to the executive branch to reprogram intelligence appropriations? As for the usual frivolity: Your hosts were committed to getting the show under one hour this week...and, anyway, they couldn't think of anything fun for their final segment.  Unfortunately, this seems to have encouraged them to digress at unpredictable times during the core program to an even greater extent than normal.  Bear with them, it'll be worth it!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from Austin and welcome to the one year anniversary of the National Security Law podcast, also known as episode number 55.

0:19.0

I mean, I know that's not 52 weeks, Steve, but we had a couple of extra episodes during the Comey madness several months ago.

0:25.7

It was such a special year that we actually, you know, averaged more than one episode a week.

0:29.9

That's how crazy 2017 was, 55 weeks.

0:32.5

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

0:36.0

2017 was long enough without having to...

0:37.9

I mean, imagine if it was a leap year.

0:39.0

I'd wait to suffer through one more day of that insanity.

0:41.5

Lord of mighty.

0:42.3

Well, I'm Bobby Chesney and you...

0:44.2

Are Steve...

0:44.9

Are?

0:45.7

Are?

0:46.2

You are?

0:47.1

I are.

0:47.9

Thou art? What I really am, though, is my faculty assistant Marsha Moyer brought us two bobbleheads for our podcast today.

0:57.5

She brought us a masked Kylo Wren and she brought us an unmasked Ben Solo.

1:03.2

And I have appropriated the masked Kylo Ren for my sort of evil, dark side version of our podcast.

1:10.7

You're letting me be the, you know, Ben Solo?

1:14.7

I don't know how, I'm trying to figure out there's a big scar across his face.

1:18.0

Maybe that's part of it.

1:20.4

I was going to say that your face is prettier.

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