Episode 58: Is It Treason Not to Clap For This Podcast?

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2018

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Sorry that football season is over? Lucky for you, the National Security Law Podcast has no offseason! And lucky for your co-hosts, the world keeps generating new topics for conversation and debate. This week, Professors Vladeck and Chesney cover four main topics: The president's "treason" remarks yesterday in Cincinnati The next stages in the Nunes #Mehmo controversy: What precisely must happen under the House rules in order for the Schiff Memo to see the light of day, and what rules and laws might come into play if the White House opposes release? Will the FISC be persuaded to publish a redacted version of the original (and successive) FISA order applications involving Carter Page? Can those documents be obtained via FOIA? Military Commissions and the firing of Harvey Rishikof and Gary Brown: What might this signify, and why might it have happened? What does it portend for the huge February 20th deadline for transferring al-Darbi out of GTMO pursuant to his plea agreement? Doe v. Mattis status report: When is the government's return due, and what should we expect it to say? The government is appealing Judge Chutkan's order requiring 72-hours notice prior to transfer: what are the prospects for that appeal, and where does the Kiyemba II ruling fit into the mix? Of course, it wouldn't be the NSL Podcast without ill-informed digressions. The Super Bowl provides fodder for plenty of that. Listen to the bitter end, if you must, and you'll hear commentary on Justin Timberlake, the Han Solo prequel, Dirty Dancing, and the game that they played between the commercials.

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 58 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:15.2	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:19.1	I'm Steve Lottick. Bobby, as I predicted,
0:21.1	the Patriots won the Super Bowl. I'm trying to remember. Did you, you had a score. What was your
0:26.5	score? It wasn't. Yeah, it was. It wasn't that one. It was like 3721, I think was my prediction.
0:30.8	I think I predicted Patriots by 11. So once more demonstrating, you're not listening to this for the football commentary. But, well, I don't listen to Chris Collinsworth for the football commentary either.
0:40.8	So I think we need to have at the close of today's episode, a little mini Super Bowl review, and perhaps focusing on...
0:48.1	On the commercials the halftime show and why Chris Collinsworth should never call a major sportive event again in his life?
0:53.2	I wouldn't go that far.
0:54.6	I wouldn't give him the death penalty on that. But I do think that, well, let's save it for later.
0:59.5	What should we be talking about today? Well, you know, it's not like there's anything happening in the
1:02.8	land of national security law. Oh, wait. Yes, there is. Treason! It's back. It's better than ever. Apparently, I'm committing it right now because I'm not clapping.
1:13.5	All right, so we will talk about the treason business. And then inevitably...
1:18.4	There's apparently still some stuff about this memo.
1:20.7	There's a memo out there. So we'll talk about memo part D.
1:24.5	Although I will say that our hashtag memo. And I say our. I'm trying to take credit for your idea.
1:28.7	No, no, no.
1:29.3	So it's a team operation.
1:30.2	I think it actually did quite well.
1:31.8	It was not bad for a completely half-baked hashtag.
1:36.0	And the memo controversy is about nothing so much as what you can accomplish with a half-baked.
1:41.3	Hashtag.
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