Episode 96: A Deep Dive into…the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

The National Security Law Podcast

Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

Courses, Politics, News, Education, Government

4.8 • 646 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to part 1 of a 2-part deep-dive series concerning FISA! In this episode, Professors Chesney and Vladeck begin with the history and context leading up to the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and then explain the central features of the statute and some of the key issues that arose during its first two decades. Part 2 (episode 97), which carries the story forward to the present, will post tomorrow! Oh, hey, while we have your attention: Yes, there was another two-week extension in Doe v. Mattis.

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0:00.0	Hello from Austin and welcome to episode 96 of the National Security Law podcast.
0:14.2	We're brought to you by the Stroud Center at the University of Texas.
0:17.2	It is Thursday, October 25th, and I'm Bobby Chesney.
0:20.6	I'm Steve Lodick, and I want to wish a very
0:22.5	happy birthday to my mother. Happy birthday! Happy birthday, Mom, 68 today. Very exciting. I should actually
0:29.7	coming down this weekend, we're having a naming ceremony for Sydney. Oh, that's really great.
0:33.6	So tomorrow night, we're actually taking my parents out to Kimori Tatsuya.
0:37.3	For your favorite places I know?
0:39.0	Although I have to say, you know, having now been able to eat in person at Franklin,
0:44.2	you know, my views might have to change a bit on Austin restaurants.
0:46.9	We did have a fine dining experience the other night at Franklin as part of the Strauss Center's
0:52.3	Cyber Boot Camp event.
0:54.7	Here's my cruzzie.
0:55.6	Yeah, and is that the one with the cyber barbecue?
0:57.9	Totally.
0:58.6	Oh, yeah.
0:59.1	Yeah, so basically, with no real reason or justification, kind of combined the cybersecurity
1:05.4	training concept with the let's eat barbecue concept, and we hashtag the whole thing as the cyber barbecue.
1:11.7	And I'm not sure that our out-of-town guests, I should say you're out-of-town guests,
1:15.4	and you're in-town guests like me.
1:17.1	Well, I did.
1:17.9	I'm not sure the out-of-town guests quite appreciated just how VIP and experience it was.
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