The National Security Law Podcast

By Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

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Episodes: 244


 Nov 8, 2019

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Unpacking the Legal Issues Behind the Headlines

Episode Date
Episode 245: 100 Days Later…
Apr 02, 2024
Episode 244: Not Our 30th Episode of 2023
Dec 23, 2023
Episode 243: Boiled Froggy Water Under the Bridge
Nov 28, 2023
Episode 242: A Rule of Law (and Punctuation) Free Episode!
Sep 29, 2023
Episode 241: Let’s Barbie!
Aug 22, 2023
Episode 240: Something Got Released
Aug 08, 2023
Episode 239: We Have Many Tapestries!
Jul 11, 2023
Episode 238: The World Wonders
Jun 12, 2023
Episode 237: Are You Not Detained???
Apr 25, 2023
Episode 236: Damn the Torpedoes!
Apr 05, 2023
Episode 235: A Drone Struck
Mar 16, 2023
Episode 234: Not *That* Linda Hamilton
Feb 23, 2023
Episode 233: This Episode Was (Not) Written by ChatGPT
Feb 14, 2023
Episode 232: Top Gun 3: Deflategate!
Feb 09, 2023
Episode 231: If You Go to Washington Don’t Crime There
Jan 24, 2023
Episode 230, Not Section 230
Jan 17, 2023
Episode 229: We Are Not Not Going to Post Weekly in 2023 Maybe
Jan 02, 2023
Episode 228: Not *That* George Clinton!
Dec 13, 2022
Episode 227: Maybe This Episode Should Pay to Get Verified
Nov 14, 2022
Episode 226: What Is a Court Anyway?
Oct 18, 2022
Episode 225: Appetite for Obstruction
Sep 01, 2022
Episode 224: Mar-a-Lag-o-Palooza
Aug 16, 2022
Episode 223: The Search for Episode 222!
Aug 09, 2022
Episode 221: GWOT Shots, Part Deux
Jun 28, 2022
Episode 220: This Podcast Made the Kessel Run In Less than 12 Parsecs
Jun 07, 2022
Episode 219: And the Podcast Host-Designate Is …
May 17, 2022
Episode 218: From 28(j) to Enterprise-J
Apr 27, 2022
Episode 217: Talking With Matt Olsen About DOJ National Security Division
Mar 28, 2022
Episode 216: This Podcast Does Not Constitute Legal Advice
Mar 08, 2022
Episode 215: Rhyming or Outright Repeating?
Feb 22, 2022
Episode 214: What Month Is This Anyway?
Feb 01, 2022
Episode 213: Most Likely to Engage in a Seditious Conspiracy
Jan 20, 2022
Episode 212: Nakatomi Plaza Holiday Office Party Edition
Dec 17, 2021
Episode 211: Behold, our Q4 episode
Nov 09, 2021
Episode 210: The Witness Who Became a Meme
Oct 06, 2021
Episode 209: The 20th Anniversary of 9/11
Sep 10, 2021
Episode 208: Afghanistan
Aug 16, 2021
Episode 207: Pearls Are In the Eye of the Beholder
Aug 11, 2021
Episode 206: This Podcast Is Not a State Actor
Jul 13, 2021
Episode 205: Road Trip!
Jun 28, 2021
Episode 204: [Insert Inscrutable Title Here]
Jun 15, 2021
Episode 203: Resistance Is Feudal (aka an interview with CISA’s Eric Goldstein)
May 24, 2021
Episode 202: Back in Steve’s Office
May 20, 2021
Episode 201: Revels, Revolts, and Reduxes…Part Deux
May 07, 2021
Episode 200: 5% of the Way to Episode 4000!
Apr 20, 2021
Episode 199: Why Is There No SJA Aboard the Starship Enterprise?
Apr 13, 2021
Episode 198: What Tattoo Should Steve Get?
Apr 05, 2021
Episode 197: Statler and Waldorf
Mar 26, 2021
Episode 196: Good…and Terrible!
Mar 10, 2021
Episode 195: Sparkly Rainbow Snowboots!
Mar 03, 2021
Episode 194: This Podcast Is Integrity-Curious
Feb 11, 2021
Episode 193: ‘Tis Better to Have Impeached and Lost …
Feb 04, 2021
Episode 192: So…What Do We Do Now?
Jan 22, 2021
Episode 191: The Biggest Fiasco of Them All
Jan 13, 2021
Episode 190: Day of Infamy
Jan 07, 2021
Episode 189: Merry New Year!
Jan 01, 2021
Episode 188: Not *That* Enterprise
Dec 22, 2020
Episode 187: Trumplandia in the Twilight
Dec 16, 2020
Episode 186: Jumping the Kraken!
Dec 08, 2020
Episode 185: The Blah-to-Coup Ratio is Increasing
Nov 30, 2020
Episode 184: Make Rule 11 Great Again!
Nov 11, 2020
Episode 183: It’s Late, and We’re Loopy
Nov 06, 2020
Episode 182: This Podcast Will Keep Going Until They Come For Us!
Oct 22, 2020
Episode 181: This Podcast Has Lots of Jitter
Oct 08, 2020
Episode 180: This Podcast Really Should Be Weekly…
Sep 29, 2020
Episode 179: This Podcast Is “Considerably Recalibrated”
Sep 16, 2020
Episode 178: What Would Robert Jackson Do?
Aug 31, 2020
Episode 177: This Podcast Does Not Have a Navy
Aug 21, 2020
Episode 176: This Podcast Won’t Play Football This Fall
Aug 10, 2020
Episode 175: The President Has No Authority to Delay This Podcast
Jul 31, 2020
Episode 174: Portland Trailblazing
Jul 21, 2020
Episode 173: This Is John Roberts’s Podcast
Jul 10, 2020
Episode 172: Cleanup on Aisle Trump!
Jul 02, 2020
Episode 171: There’s a Spectrum of Corruption
Jun 26, 2020
Episode 170: This Podcast Is Not Subject to (Prior) Restraint
Jun 19, 2020
Episode 169: Now We’re a Third Amendment Podcast
Jun 12, 2020
Episode 168: On the Brink with the Insurrection Act
Jun 02, 2020
Episode 167: Podcast Emergency Action Documents
May 21, 2020
Episode 166: This Podcast Has Temporary Absolute Immunity
May 14, 2020
Episode 165: This Podcast Prefers Its Nothing Burgers to Be Medium Rare
May 02, 2020
Episode 164: LIBERATE THIS PODCAST!
Apr 22, 2020
Episode 163: This Podcast Will Have a Very Powerful Reopening
Apr 16, 2020
Episode 162: The Penn Is Mightier Than the Sword!
Apr 08, 2020
Episode 161: This Podcast Was Recorded “Before There Were Privacy Laws”
Apr 02, 2020
Episode 160: This Podcast Is Invoking “P”!
Mar 27, 2020
Episode 159: This Podcast Is Zoom-y!
Mar 21, 2020
Episode 158: What SCOTUS Can Learn from Franklin Barbecue
Mar 11, 2020
Episode 157: At Least There Are No Zombies…Yet
Mar 04, 2020
Episode 156: This Podcast Is VUCA!
Mar 03, 2020
Episode 155: This Podcast Is Not Wearing a Facemask (But It Did Wash Its Hands)
Feb 26, 2020
Episode 154: This Podcast Is Not Just a “Piece of Metal”
Feb 19, 2020
Episode 153: This Podcast Has All the Elsas (But No Eminem)
Feb 12, 2020
Episode 152: John Bolton Is Welcome to Testify on this Podcast
Jan 29, 2020
Episode 151: This Podcast Deserves (at Least) One Vote for the Hall of Fame
Jan 22, 2020
Episode 150: This Podcast Can’t Spell Sesquicenteninial!
Jan 16, 2020
Episode 149: This Podcast Will Not Serve as a Notification to Anyone About Anything
Jan 06, 2020
Episode 148: This Podcast Is “Thug #7”
Dec 18, 2019
Episode 147: Sometimes You Get a Donald J. Trump
Dec 10, 2019
Episode 146: What’s In Your Wallet? A Subpoena!
Dec 04, 2019
Episode 145: The Meh-mometer Is Stuck at Meh
Nov 26, 2019
Episode 144: Lawful But Awful
Nov 20, 2019
Episode 143: We won an award?!?
Nov 13, 2019
Episode 142: We’ve Got Company!
Nov 09, 2019
Episode 141: The House Has Voted to Authorize This Podcast
Oct 30, 2019
Episode 140: We Almost Tried Hard!
Oct 23, 2019
Episode 139: Hello from Austin…Hall?
Oct 17, 2019
Episode 138: “That’s Nobody’s Business But the Turks”
Oct 09, 2019
Episode 137: Do Us a Favor Though Because This Podcast Has Been Through a Lot
Sep 26, 2019
Episode 136: This Podcast Needs a Reboot!
Sep 18, 2019
Episode 135: Do You Hear the Podcast Sing
Sep 11, 2019
Episode 134: A Very Brady Episode
Sep 04, 2019
Episode 133: You Are “Hereby Ordered” To Listen To This Podcast
Aug 28, 2019
Episode 132: On the Way to Greenland!
Aug 20, 2019
Episode 131: El Paso and Domestic Terrorism
Aug 06, 2019
Episode 130: In Case of Vacancy, Who Becomes Our Acting Podcast Host?
Jul 31, 2019
Episode 129: This Is Quite the War Powers Podcast
Jul 24, 2019
Episode 128: Now Witness the Power of this Fully Armed and Operational [PCLOB]!
Jul 17, 2019
Episode 127: It’s Bobby Bonilla Day!
Jul 01, 2019
Episode 126: Sometimes, “Nothing” Is Important
Jun 26, 2019
Episode 125: Worst of Both Worlds
Jun 18, 2019
Episode 124: Who’s Ron Swanson?!?
Jun 13, 2019
Episode 123: Our Gym Was Named for the Espionage Act Guy???
May 28, 2019
Episode 122: That Didn’t Fly for Buchanan…
May 21, 2019
Episode 121: The Persian Gulf of Tonkin
May 15, 2019
Episode 120: Bran, Bron, What’s the Difference?
May 07, 2019
Episode 119: This Podcast Is Dark and Full of Spoilers
Apr 30, 2019
Episode 118: Steve Targaryen, First of His Name
Apr 17, 2019
Episode 117: Y’all Got Designated
Apr 13, 2019
Episode 116: This Podcast Can Only Be Detained for Six Months
Apr 02, 2019
Episode 115: This Podcast Does Not Have a Grandparent Born in Ireland
Mar 25, 2019
Episode 114: Manafortnite
Mar 13, 2019
Episode 113 – 702 : Madison :: 215 : Hamilton
Mar 06, 2019
Episode 112: And the Oscar Goes To…NSL Podcast!
Feb 26, 2019
Episode 111: This National Emergency Podcast Requires the Use of the Armed Forces
Feb 19, 2019
Episode 110: This Podcast Is Not Subject to Military Jurisdiction
Feb 12, 2019
Episode 109: The State of the Podcast Is Strong!
Feb 06, 2019
Episode 108: Is It Arnold Palmer or Iced Tea-Lemonade?
Jan 30, 2019
Episode 107: Clearly Right, Once Again
Jan 22, 2019
Episode 106: Schools Out For Summer
Jan 14, 2019
Episode 105: That Doesn’t Mean You Do It Stupid!
Jan 07, 2019
Episode 104: This Podcast Is a State Secret
Dec 18, 2018
Episode 103: This Podcast Should Be Dis-BARRed
Dec 11, 2018
Episode 102: This Podcast Is Bowl-Eligible
Dec 05, 2018
Episode 101: “To me, [this podcast] is perfect”
Nov 27, 2018
Episode 100! Trumplandia: If I Did It…
Nov 14, 2018
Episode 99: The Deepest Dive: Surveillance, Section 702, and Section 215
Nov 06, 2018
Episode 98: That’s What Leadership Looks Like
Oct 30, 2018
Episode 97: FISA Part Deux (A Deeper Dive)
Oct 26, 2018
Episode 96: A Deep Dive into…the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Oct 25, 2018
Episode 95: Not Everybody Be DPH’ing!
Oct 16, 2018
Episode 94: The Enemy of My Friend Is My Enemy
Oct 11, 2018
Episode 93: Is This a Buddy Podcast?
Oct 02, 2018
Episode 92: Have Fun Storming the Castle!
Sep 26, 2018
Episode 91: A Deep Dive Into the History of Military Commissions
Sep 18, 2018
Episode 90: What’d I Miss?
Sep 13, 2018
Episode 89: A Deep Dive into the Steel Seizure Case (Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer)
Sep 04, 2018
Episode 88: A Deep Dive into the Anwar al-Awlaki Case(s)
Aug 28, 2018
Episode 87: The D.C. Circuit Ain’t Inquorate
Aug 21, 2018
Episode 86: This Episode Was Not Recorded in the Situation Room!
Aug 14, 2018
Episode 85: Party Like It’s June 28, 2004!
Aug 07, 2018
Episode 84: Happily, We Found Someone Who Knows What They’re Talking About!
Aug 01, 2018
Episode 83: [Steve] Is the Kiss of Death
Jul 25, 2018
Episode 82: Helsinki…Sweden!
Jul 17, 2018
Episode 81: The Road to 10,000
Jul 09, 2018
Ep.80: SCOTUS-palooza
Jun 27, 2018
Episode 79: It’s a Girl!
Jun 20, 2018
Episode 78: Live from Singapore, Malaysia (?!?)
Jun 12, 2018
Episode 77: Pardon Me?
Jun 05, 2018
Episode 76: The Valley of Ignorance
May 30, 2018
Episode 75: I Hereby Demand, & Tomorrow Will Officially Order, That You Listen to This Podcast
May 22, 2018
Episode 74: We’re Spending It On Barbecue!
May 15, 2018
Episode 73: The Penumbras of the Category
May 08, 2018
Episode 72: This Podcast Was Recorded Before, On, or After 9/11
May 01, 2018
Episode 71: Everyone Knows It Is Saudi Arabia!!!
Apr 24, 2018
(Bonus Episode) Ep.70: The Corker-Kaine AUMF
Apr 17, 2018
Episode 69: Friday Was Quite a Month
Apr 16, 2018
Episode 68: This Podcast Is Not Protected by the Attorney-Client Privilege
Apr 10, 2018
Episode 67: CTRL-F Redaction Fail
Apr 03, 2018
Episode 66: Can You DIG It?
Mar 27, 2018
Episode 65: Caging a Tiger
Mar 21, 2018
Episode 64: Beware the Ides of CFIUS!
Mar 15, 2018
Episode 63: Mueller Is the Only Vulcan in the Room
Mar 12, 2018
Episode 62: Wait–We Have to Talk About GATT?!?
Mar 05, 2018
Episode 61: Judge Pohl Says: “Hold My Beer”
Feb 27, 2018
Episode 60: TL;DL – This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Feb 21, 2018
Episode 59: Share the Cookies
Feb 13, 2018
Episode 58: Is It Treason Not to Clap For This Podcast?
Feb 06, 2018
Episode 57: About that #Mehmo (Special Edition on the Nunes Memo Release)
Feb 02, 2018
Episode 56: The State of the Uniom Is…ExStravagant!
Jan 30, 2018
Episode 55: #ReleaseThePodcast
Jan 23, 2018
Ep. 54: Family Ties or Family Matters?
Jan 17, 2018
Episode 53: Tanks, Bombs, Bombs, and Guns
Jan 09, 2018
Episode 52: Trump Derangement Syndrome or a Distraction from the Forever War?
Jan 03, 2018
Episode 51: Temporary, Immediate, and Unmonitored Access to this Podcast
Dec 27, 2017
Episode 50: The Big Chill
Dec 19, 2017
Episode 49: Around the Horn With Interrogation, Detention, Prosecution, and Targeting
Dec 12, 2017
Episode 48: The Logan Act: Not Just Another Hugh Jackman Movie
Dec 05, 2017
Episode 47: Donuts and Depth Charges
Nov 28, 2017
Episode 46: The $15 Million Dollar Man
Nov 16, 2017
Episode 45: An Inter-Jurisdictional Cluster-You-Know-What?
Nov 07, 2017
Episode 44: Interrogation, Prosecution, and Detention Issues in the Wake of the NYC Attack
Nov 01, 2017
Episode 43: Unseal this Podcast!
Oct 31, 2017
Episode 42: The Magic Bullet Travel Ban(d)
Oct 24, 2017
Episode 41: Han Shot First
Oct 17, 2017
Episode 40: It’s a Conspiracy
Oct 10, 2017
Episode 39: It Is More Likely Than Not That Our FARRA Discussion Will Bore You
Oct 04, 2017
Episode 38: How Did We Get Through This One Without Saying “Posse Comitatus”?
Sep 27, 2017
Episode 37: Enemy Combatants, Agents of Foreign Powers
Sep 19, 2017
Episode 36: NSA General Counsel Glenn Gerstell on Section 702
Sep 14, 2017
Episode 35: Will This Be the Year of Military Courts at the Supreme Court?
Sep 12, 2017
Episode 34: January 2019 as the Start of the 9/11 Trial: Over/Under?
Sep 05, 2017
Episode 33: How About a Presidential Pardon…For This Episode
Aug 30, 2017
Episode 32: Back to the Future…of Afghanistan and GTMO?
Aug 22, 2017
Episode 31: We Were Not Mirandized Until Halfway Through This Podcast
Aug 16, 2017
Episode 30: Don’t Pop the Accountability Champagne Quite Yet
Aug 08, 2017
Episode 29: Military Commissions, Military Officers in the Cabinet, the Laws of War, and More
Aug 01, 2017
Episode 28: The North Remembers…the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998???
Jul 25, 2017
Episode 27: The AUMF: All You Ever Wanted to Know (and Plenty You Didn’t)
Jul 17, 2017
Episode 26: The Impenetrable Podcast Unit
Jul 11, 2017
Episode 25: So Much National Security Law News…We’ve Reached Our Limitrophe
Jun 28, 2017
Episode 24: An AUMF for Westeros?
Jun 20, 2017
Episode 23: She Could Be the Ruckelshaus to Rosenstein’s Richardson
Jun 13, 2017
Episode 22: A Dose of Reality
Jun 06, 2017
Episode 21: A Military Commissions Deep Dive
May 31, 2017
Episode 20: The Executive Branch’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Week in Court
May 25, 2017
Episode 19: Inherent Contempt Works Better With a Congressional Jail
May 22, 2017
Episode 18: Disclosing Secrets to the Russians Makes Me WannaCry
May 16, 2017
Episode 17: On the Firing of Jim Comey
May 10, 2017
Episode 16: Authorizing Force Against the Islamic State
May 09, 2017
Episode 15: Skirmishes in the Surveillance Wars
May 03, 2017
Episode 14: Potential Assange Charges, and More From Some Island in the Pacific
Apr 26, 2017
Episode 13: This Podcast Did Not Go Through the VEP But We Are Releasing It Anyway
Apr 19, 2017
Episode 12: R2P From Above? The Shayrat Airfield Strike and More
Apr 11, 2017
Episode 11: All of This Has Happened Before, and Will Happen Again
Apr 05, 2017
Episode 10: Is This Podcast Cert-Worthy?
Mar 29, 2017
Episode 9: [USperson 1] and [USperson 2] Discuss [Redacted]
Mar 24, 2017
Episode 8: March Madness
Mar 17, 2017
Episode 7: The Less Prep the Better
Mar 08, 2017
Episode 6: A Sessions Session
Mar 02, 2017
Episode 5: Does this Podcast Apply Extraterritorially?
Feb 21, 2017
Episode 4: A New Hope
Feb 16, 2017
Episode 3: Sometimes an Executive Order Is Really Just…An Invitation to Talk about AUMFs and Habeas Corpus
Feb 09, 2017
Episode 2: If You Thought That Last Executive Order Was Controversial…
Jan 31, 2017
Episode 1: What the World Needs Now Is a New Podcast
Jan 25, 2017