The National Security Law Podcast: Unseal this Podcast!
It’s been a busy week in national security law! In Episode 43, Professors Chesney and Vladeck take on:
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It’s been a busy week in national security law! In Episode 43, Professors Chesney and Vladeck take on:
- Mueller Time: Indictments against Manafort and Gates, and an even-more important plea deal.
- ACLU v. Mattis and the government’s filing in opposition to an order to show cause why ACLU should not get access to the US citizen held as an enemy combatant in Iraq.
- A new Benghazi case: United States v. Mustafa al-Imam, captured by U.S. forces in Libya (with Libyan government permission/involvement) and now en route (slowly, presumably) back to U.S. for civilian criminal prosecution.
- A quick note on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s hearing yesterday on AUMF issues (plus a related note on the federal statute — 18 USC 13 — that requires notification to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees when the military conducts (or supports a foreign partner on) a kill/capture mission outside a zone of active hostilities).
- The blow-up in the al-Nashiri military commission, with the commission judge threatening contempt if the would-be-former defense attorneys do not show for a hearing on whether their ethical objections genuinely require withdrawal
All that, plus slick baseballs undermining sliders at the World Series!
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.
