The “It’s Short for Scottrick” Edition
Rational Security
The Lawfare Institute
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 October 2022
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott flew solo to talk through some of the week's big national security news stories, including:
- “Jake, Mr. Sullivan if You’re NSSty.” The Biden administration finally unveiled its long awaited (and overdue) National Security Strategy last week, through a high-profile event at Georgetown University featuring National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Does it hit the mark? Does it even matter?
- “Big Subpoena Energy.” The Jan. 6 committee confidently closed its last live session with a bang last week, in the form of a unanimous vote to subpoena former President Trump for his testimony. Trump responded with a 14-page rant a few days later that repeated many of his grievances over the 2020 election but did not address whether he would comply. Why did the committee take this step? Is there any way to compel Trump to cooperate? Will it need to?
- “Is it SIGINT or SIJINT?” The Biden administration has issued a new Executive Order limiting its collection of signals intelligence, as part of an effort to come to agreement with the European Union’s legal system and its stringent privacy protections. Will these new arrangements be invalidated by European courts like their two predecessors? Or could they finally be up to snuff?
For object lessons, Alan recommended the impressive (if highly depressing) new European sci-fi film "Vesper." Quinta seconded Carlos Lozada's takedown of one of the Senate's most milquetoast members. And Scott celebrated the 90th birthday of a real legal legend and all around phenomenal human, Judge Guido Calabresi.
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| 0:00.0 | Scott Short for anything? Scott Trick. Did you say, do you say Scott Trick? |
| 0:05.4 | Yeah, Scott. It's certainly not. Well, now I will obviously only call you Scott Trick. |
| 0:14.4 | You would not be the first. Can you actually, I think we should call it the short for |
| 0:21.0 | Scott Trick edition and just have that BRB role. That's awesome. There we go. There we go. |
| 0:27.6 | It's short for Scott Trick edition. |
| 0:38.8 | Hello, everyone and welcome to Rational Security 2.0. I am one of your co-hosts, |
| 0:44.3 | Scott R. Andersen. I am thrilled to be here with my two other co-hosts, Quinted Dressick. |
| 0:48.1 | Hello. And Alan Rosenstein. Hello, hello. And we are very excited. We have you here today for |
| 0:54.7 | all of your calling. It's short for Scott Trick edition because of a little confusion over my |
| 0:59.4 | first name. It should be Scott Trick. I don't care if it's not Scott Trick. This is a |
| 1:04.4 | too good to check, kind of fact. What do you think it could be short for when you add Scott? |
| 1:09.5 | It could have been Prescott. It could have been Prescott. |
| 1:12.8 | You shortened it from Prescott. Wouldn't you be only taking away three letters and then adding |
| 1:18.2 | one more letter at the end? Is Prescott usually have two T's at the end? I feel like it's true. |
| 1:22.2 | But to be clear, WWW is short for World Wide Web and has like three times the number of syllables. |
| 1:29.2 | So people do weird things. Yeah. Fair point. Fair point. All right. Well, you know, |
| 1:33.2 | maybe we'll often give you that we use this one. Also, it's not short for Prescott as we just |
| 1:37.9 | established short for Scott Trick. Scott Trick. Exactly. Scott Trick by Tholomeel Andersen. |
| 1:45.4 | That is my full name. Very similar to my father's name and his father's name before him. |
| 1:51.9 | With that, I will say I will forgive you this transgression because I am excited to have you here |
| 1:56.8 | in spite of not knowing my real first name. To talk over some of the weeks, big |
| 2:01.9 | and national security news. First up for this week, our first topic, Jake, Mr. Sullivan, |
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