The National Security Law Podcast: This Podcast Was Recorded 'Before There Were Privacy Laws'
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It’s not April Fool’s trick, we really are back with a new episode covering the latest in national security law news. Watch the video here, if you aren’t getting enough Zoom. This week we’ve got:
- DOJ’s Inspector General has come out with the first of what may be a series of reports on the quality of FBI’s procedures in preparing FISA applications. This one is about compliance with the “Woods Procedures,” and it is not a positive story for FBI. We explain, and we debate what follows from this.
- Will we see more uses of force against Iranian proxies in Iraq? A New York Times article and a presidential tweet raise the question.
- Meanwhile, returning to our all-too-familiar pandemic beat: we note the emergence of various rights claims–free exercise, abortion, guns–in relation to shelter-in-place/business-closure rules
Best of all, of course, is the frivolity. If you are keeping up with WestWorld, we talk Episode 3 this week.
Robert (Bobby) Chesney is the Dean of the University of Texas School of Law, where he also holds the James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs at UT. He is known internationally for his scholarship relating both to cybersecurity and national security. He is a co-founder of Lawfare, the nation’s leading online source for analysis of national security legal issues, and he co-hosts the popular show The National Security Law Podcast.
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit. In addition to serving as a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Steve is also the co-editor of Aspen Publishers’ leading National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks.
