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The National Security Law Podcast

Episode 65: Caging a Tiger

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8646 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

With apologies for short shownotes, here are the headlines for this week's NSL Podcast: The McCabe firing The prospect of legislation permitting judicial review of any decision to fire Mueller An update of the declaration of Secretary Mattis explaining why he removed the GTMO military commission's Convening Authority and his legal advisor A decision by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court of Review recognizing standing for ACLU and MFIA to press their claim for First Amendment-based access to FISC opinions A decision by the Fifth Circuit rejecting the existence of a Bivens cause of action in Hernandez v. Mesa (the cross-border shooting case on remand from SCOTUS) A recap of the issues in al Alwi, argued yesterday before the D.C. Circuit (raising questions about the enforceability of a PRB determination that a GTMO detainee should be transferred to Saudi Arabia, and about the continuing existence of detention authority in light of evolving circumstances in Afghanistan) The demise, for now at least, of S.J. Res. 54 (calling for withdrawal of US support for Saudi-led military operations in Yemen) The Cambridge Analytica/Facebook data privacy mess (excellent post by Andrew Woods on this here) The RICO indictment of Phantom Secure for conspiring to support criminal activity through provision of secure communication services (and what this might portend for the Going Dark debate) (Bobby's post on this here) And, what you really wanted to know: just what will Bobby and Steve be working on this summer, once classes are over!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 65, the National Security Law Podcast.

0:14.6

We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas. I'm Bobby Chesman.

0:18.9

I'm Steve Vladic. Bobby, how's your bracket?

0:26.7

What bracket? We're already past it. Oh, yeah, no, no, it's great because I had Texas women's basketball definitely going to the Sweet 16 and indeed beyond that, and they're looking

0:30.9

great. Did you have the Yukon women scoring 94 points in the first half? Did you have the

0:36.9

Amherst College women's basketball team finishing off an undefeated season

0:41.3

with their back-to-back national championship for Division III?

0:45.1

Congratulations.

0:46.1

Steve, the important thing is that we both wisely decided we wouldn't make any predictions for the men's bracket of course.

0:52.1

No, no predictions.

0:52.7

There's no evidence to prove otherwise, right?

0:55.0

None.

0:55.6

None. You deleted last week's episode, right?

0:57.7

Oh, yeah.

0:58.8

That was on?

1:00.6

All right.

1:01.1

It may have been the worst bracket, the worst set of predictions I think I've ever been

1:04.7

associated with, so I have zero credibility.

1:06.9

Oh, hold my beer.

1:09.2

Listen, we have a lot to do today, but I thought we would start by talking about what's actually been going on in our neck of the woods.

1:15.0

We received a lot of both concerned emails and tweets and well-wished emails and tweets.

1:20.9

It's been a pretty scary couple of weeks here in Austin.

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