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Rational Security

The “Quite Common Under American Law” Edition

Rational Security

The Lawfare Institute

News, Foreignpolicy, Nationalsecurity, Politics, Government, Middleeast

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The impeachment trial is about to begin in earnest. We’ll recap the latest. The Trump administration deals with the fallout from the strike that killed Qasem Soleimani. And in the final debate before voting starts, Democratic candidates for president have little to say about foreign policy.

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0:00.0

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0:11.0

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0:15.0

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0:28.0

So, Shane, why are you best prepared to be commander-in-chief? Well, I love men in uniform.

0:31.0

Fact-check, true.

0:34.0

And you need access to the top secret info on UFOs.

0:38.0

Let's be honest, yes, that's the only reason.

0:40.0

I mean, I can tell you a lot of reasons reasons like I'm really good at making decisions you know

0:45.4

Just run on that platform be like I will you classify the you aliens

0:50.2

Yes, I will take the men in uniform.

0:53.0

I think the decision is obvious.

0:57.0

Hello and welcome to rational security the quite common under American law

1:08.3

addition.

1:09.3

Extremely normal. Totally cool, totally legal. Very stable. Very stable. Pro tip. If you ever get a letter from Rudy Giuliani, particularly if you were recently elected of a country that begins with just to be precise this is

1:25.1

quite common under American law presume it is not that whatever he is talking about is not

1:30.5

yeah I just if you get any email from anyone or letter that begins with what I'm

1:35.8

about to tell you is extremely normal. It's not. I think that's right. If you have to declare it's like the the presence of the word

1:46.0

democratic in country's name the Democratic people's republic of Tyranny.

1:53.0

You know, all words named Democratic in the names of countries are false.

1:58.0

All letters that declare what they're proposing to be perfectly normal

2:02.0

and common under US law are not.

2:05.5

I definitely not. We are going to talk about that extraordinary letter and other things

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