National Security Law Podcast: A Very Brady Episode
And we are back with more discussion and debate of the latest national security legal news! Tune in for cohosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney as they take up:
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And we are back with more discussion and debate of the latest national security legal news! Tune in for cohosts Steve Vladeck and Bobby Chesney as they take up:
- Domestic terrorism and the questions such as (a) whether there ought to be a “designation” process for domestic groups and (b) whether the phrase “civilian population” presents vagueness issues if employed in a criminal law measure.
- A trial date for the 9/11 trial at GTMO! Will it really be underway as of January 11, 2021? What impact might the election have? And why does that date look familiar?
- Presidential disclosure of classified information: it runs the gamut from formal declassification to…tweeted photographs of photographs?
- We’ve got one eye on the ongoing talk of a “peace” deal in Afghanistan. Apparently, U.S. forces will remain in-theater for CT ops re al Qaeda and the Islamic State, meaning such a development might not have the legal consequences as to military detention that some might expect. But don’t ask the National Security Advisor about that, he might not be in the loop on all this!
- National Security Division at DOJ has been busy, this time with charges in two cases involving naturalized American citizens who sought to take up arms for the Islamic State–one in Syria, and the other on a pedestrian bridge over the Grand Central Parkway in Queens…
And then there’s the sportsball…tune in for NFL predictions that are worth what you are paying to listen!
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.
