Episode 6: A Sessions Session

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Professors Vladeck and Chesney get into the weeds of the controversy surrounding the statements Attorney General Sessions made during his confirmation process concerning contacts with Russians. Is there a credible case for perjury here? They don't seem to agree, but you'll have to listen to find out where they part ways. They also foreshadow future discussions regarding the debate that will occur this year regarding "Section 702" renewal, as well as the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. As usual, things come apart at the end, especially when Game of Thrones enters the picture.

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin. Today is March 2nd, and this is episode 6 of the National Security Law podcast. I'm Bobby Chesney, a professor here at the University of Texas at Austin. And I'm Steve Vlad, Bobby, we made it to six.
0:13.7	Six episodes. They haven't canceled us yet. They haven't canceled us yet. Oh, wait. They can't cancel us as long as we just keep putting these out there.
0:22.6	Well, I guess we could lose our readership of 11.
0:25.6	Yeah, we can go down from there.
0:27.6	So Bobby, we're recording on Thursday this week. That's my bad.
0:30.6	Yeah, why is that? Where have you been?
0:32.6	Where have I been? I've been banging my head against walls very, very slowly.
0:38.2	So I actually, as I think we alluded to on last week's episode, I've been in Ireland for
0:43.3	the last week, actually testifying in this ongoing, interesting data privacy case between
0:49.1	the Irish Data Protection Commissioner or Data Privacy Commissioner, I think it's protection.
0:57.7	And Facebook, I should probably know the answer to that question.
0:59.8	It's contempt of court right there.
1:00.3	Seriously.
1:02.4	Well, there was other contempt going on.
1:06.2	But, you know, hopefully we'll have a chance for the end of the episode today to talk a bit about that in the broader context, Bobby, this week we saw the beginning of this, I guess,
1:11.0	year-long conversation about reform of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
1:15.7	Act?
1:16.7	Yes, it is the year of 702 renewal and the official launch party was this week with the
1:23.5	hearing.
1:24.7	The cold open.
1:25.7	The cold open.
1:26.7	Although, you know, it was relatively warm. So we'll have a little bit to say about that.
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