The National Security Law Podcast: #ReleaseThePodcast

Robert Chesney, Steve Vladeck
Wednesday, January 24, 2018, 10:24 AM

Happy anniversary, y’all! It’s been one full year since we launched this podcast, and we are very grateful for all our listeners. Here’s hoping there is less to discuss in our second year!

This week, we’ve got:

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Happy anniversary, y’all! It’s been one full year since we launched this podcast, and we are very grateful for all our listeners. Here’s hoping there is less to discuss in our second year!

This week, we’ve got:

  1. The FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act: How exactly does the new warrant requirement work, what it do with “about” collection, and how did it approach the question of “parallel construction”?
  2. #ReleaseTheMemo: What the heck is this all about?
  3. Must the government have a statutory or treaty basis to transfer John Doe (a Saudi-U.S. dual-citizen held for many months now in U.S. military custody in Iraq, and the petitioner in Doe v. Mattis) to the custody of a third country?
  4. Travel Ban 3.0: On its way to the Supreme Court in what is shaping up to be a blockbuster term.
  5. The REAL ID Act and the expiration of a key deadline for travelers from certain states and territories.
  6. The Anti-Deficiency Act and what it means for the pay of military personnel when the government is shutdown.
  7. A temporary grant of authority to the executive branch to reprogram intelligence appropriations?

As for the usual frivolity: Your hosts were committed to getting the show under one hour this week … and, anyway, they couldn’t think of anything fun for their final segment. Unfortunately, this seems to have encouraged them to digress at unpredictable times during the core program to an even greater extent than normal. Bear with them, it’ll be worth it!


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.

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