Episode #89: Bone-Crushing Zombie Action
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2014
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Foreign Policy's Shane Harris hosts a panel--incuding Bobby Chesney, Benjamin Wittes, and Jennifer Daskal--on the law of the War on Zombies. What will be the legal architecture when the dead walk and come for your brains? Do we need a zombie AUMF? Do zombies have due process rights? Find out on this week's special episode.
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| 0:29.0 | I think the first step is to work with the local government |
| 0:35.0 | and see what is feasible. |
| 0:37.0 | The second step is to look at the range of tools short of uses of force |
| 0:41.0 | that might be available to respond to the zombies and to contain them. |
| 0:46.0 | And then if we come to a situation where the president and our best intelligence |
| 0:50.0 | say and our best operator say, this is not feasible. |
| 0:53.0 | We need to use other extraordinary measures. |
| 0:56.0 | It certainly seems to me that at least the president |
| 1:00.0 | has an article to authorities to protect against the zombies threat spreading |
| 1:06.0 | and threatening the US person. |
| 1:08.0 | And if it turns out that the zombies continue to pose an ongoing threat |
| 1:13.0 | that can't be addressed through other tools, then we are the president ought to go to Congress |
| 1:18.0 | and get a authorization. |
| 1:20.0 | I'm Shane Harris, a foreign policy magazine, and this is the LawFair podcast. |
| 1:25.0 | August 30, 2014. |
| 1:27.0 | Today on the podcast, it's the special zombie apocalypse edition. |
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