Episode 69: Friday Was Quite a Month

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

In light of the amazing developments last Friday, we decided to move the show up to today. Tune in for discussion of five things that happened just that one day: A deep dive on the international law framework implicated by the US/UK/FR airstrikes on Syrian government facilities associated with chemical weapons (with a special emphasis on the UK's asserted humanitarian intervention justification). An equally-deep dive into the US domestic law framework governing the use of the military (with a special emphasis on the problem of drawing the line between uses of the military that rise to the level of "war" and those that involve lethal force yet still do not count as war). The OIG report on Andy McCabe. The ongoing dispute over attorney-client privilege in relation to the search warrant executed at Michael Cohen's office. The flurry of rumors about the imminent firing of Rod Rosenstein. And if you can hang in for a full hour of that stuff, you'll be treated to the long-awaited review of...Black Panther! (Of course, you'll also be "treated" to more celebration of the Amazin' Mets).

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin.
0:11.0	Welcome to Episode 69 at the National Security Law Podcast.
0:15.0	We're brought to you by the Strauss Center at the University of Texas.
0:18.0	It's Monday morning.
0:20.0	Monday, Monday? Wait, we don't record this podcast on Mondays.
0:23.9	All right, I'm out of here. I'll check in with you tomorrow. Oh, I know why we're having a Monday
0:27.0	episode. Why is that? I finally saw the Black Panther. Is that what it is? So now you're racing
0:32.7	to review it? Well, you know, I mean, that or there's, you know, a few things happened on Friday.
0:38.7	So, yeah, Friday was a bit packed.
0:40.9	As I wrote on Twitter, Friday was quite a month.
0:44.1	It was.
0:44.8	Episode title.
0:45.5	Episode title right there.
0:47.9	Well, I'm John Fesney, who are you?
0:49.3	I'm Steve Vlodick, and it's not just because the Mets won again.
0:52.6	12 and 2.
0:53.4	12 and 2. 12 and 2.
0:58.5	Now, we've gotten a little bit of pushback for talking a little too much about the Mets on this podcast.
1:02.6	Maybe we should talk more about other teams or about national security and law. I think people want national security law.
1:03.9	I just want to say to our listeners who think we're talking about the Mets too much. Keep in mind, I am expecting to not be able to talk about the Mets more and more as the
1:12.1	season goes on. And I'm sparing everyone from a lot of San Antonio Spurs discussion because things
1:16.9	are not so great in Spursland. Yeah, how was Game 1? I don't know. And neither is. Quay
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