ABA President Patricia "Trish" Refo discusses how the ABA supports elections and voting and how it advises on judicial nominations, and talks about her career in litigation.

This episode references

Federal Rules of Evidence

https://www.rulesofevidence.org/

Daubert Standard from Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals Inc., 509 U.S. 579 (1993)

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/509/579/

An army of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's former law clerks gathered to meet her casket at the Supreme Court, CBS News, September 23, 2020

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ruth-bader-ginsburg-law-clerks-meet-casket-supreme-court-lie-in-repose/

Poll Worker Esq. (Also found at ambar.org/vote)

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_interest/election_law/poll-worker-esq/

CanIvote.org

https://www.nass.org/can-I-vote

ABA Presidents on the 19th Amendment

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/programs/19th-amendment-centennial/

ABA Cybersecurity Task Force Resources

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/cybersecurity/resources/aba-cyber-resources/

Patricia "Trish" Refo is the President of the American Bar Association

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/leadership/aba_officers/patricia-lee-refo/

Dan Sutherland, Chief Counsel of the Cyber Infrastructure Security Agency discusses the challenges of supporting election security across the US and just what steps the government takes to safeguard the vote.

This episode references:

CISA Resources for Lawyers

https://www.cisa.gov/resources-lawyers

CISA Cyber Summit

https://www.cisa.gov/live

CISA Election Security Page

https://www.cisa.gov/protect2020

CISA Election Security Resource Library

https://www.cisa.gov/election-security-library

Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project

https://healthyelections.org/

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election (Volumes 1-5)

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures

Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center (EI-ISAC)

https://www.cisecurity.org/ei-isac/

National Association of Secretaries of State #TrustedInfo2020

https://www.nass.org/initiatives/trustedinfo-2020

CISA Election Disinformation Toolkit [PDF]

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/election-disinformation-toolkit_508.pdf

Help America Vote Act of 2002

https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/eac_assets/1/6/HAVA41.PDF

Help America Vote Act Appropriations

https://www.eac.gov/payments-and-grants/election-security-funds

Election Grants under the 2020 CARES Act

https://www.eac.gov/payments-and-grants/2020-cares-act-grants

NASS Issue Briefing on State Spending of Election Security Grant Funds [PDF]

https://www.nass.org/sites/default/files/Election%20Cybersecurity/issue-brief-HAVA-spending-april-2020_.pdf

Center for Tech and Civic Life

https://www.techandciviclife.org/

Poll Worker, Esq.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_interest/election_law/poll-worker-esq/

Safeguarding Your Vote: A Joint Message on Election Security [Video]

https://youtu.be/GhQjRtVi9pQ

Committee on House Administration Election Security Update: Top 18 Most Vulnerable States, July 2018

https://cha.house.gov/sites/democrats.cha.house.gov/files/Election_Security_Update_v5.pdf

Dan Sutherland is the Chief Counsel for the Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/dsutherlandbio-20.pdf

In this episode John Barry, author of the bestselling book The Great Influenza discusses the historical and policy lessons of the 1918 flu and what they mean for 2020.

This episode references

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Influenza-Deadliest-Pandemic-History/dp/0143036491

The Espionage Act of 1917

https://iowaculture.gov/sites/default/files/history-education-pss-wwi-espionageact-transcription.pdf

The Sedition Act of 1918

https://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/The_U.S._Sedition_Act

The Committee on Public Information

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1179/committee-on-public-information

Operation Warp Speed

https://www.defense.gov/Explore/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Operation-Warp-Speed/

National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza: Implementation Plan, May 2006

https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/homeland/pandemic-influenza-implementation.html

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927

https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Tide-Mississippi-Changed-America/dp/0684840022

John Barry is a prize-winning and bestselling author whose book on the 1918 pandemic influenza won the National Academies of Sciences award for the year's outstanding book on science or medicine.

http://www.johnmbarry.com/events.htm

Cynthia Ryan, the former general counsel of the NGA - the intelligence community's space surveillance and imaging agency - talks about her career path and what the biggest growth areas are in national security law.

This episode references:

National Space Council

https://www.space.commerce.gov/category/national-space-council/

Law and Military Ops in Space with Jack Beard and Dale Stephens

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/nslt/20200430-woomera-manual-space-law/

NASA Publishes Artemis Plan to Land First Woman, Next Man on Moon in 2024

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-publishes-artemis-plan-to-land-first-woman-next-man-on-moon-in-2024/

The Confidence Code

https://theconfidencecode.com/

Lean In

https://leanin.org/book

Cynthia Ryan is the former General Counsel of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the immediate past chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/crryan-bio-20.pdf

Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker discusses her career as general counsel to the CIA and the NSA, and talks about how her work in the intelligence community led her to become a champion for civic education.

This episode references:

Women in American Cryptography

https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-figures-publications/women/

CIA spycatcher Jeanne Vertefeuille

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2016-featured-story-archive/spy-catcher-jeanne-vertefeuille.html

Mir Aimal Kansi's attack on the CIA headquarters

https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/murder-at-cia.html

Educating for Democracy Act

https://delauro.house.gov/sites/delauro.house.gov/files/documents/DELAUR_074_xml_final.pdf

iCivics

https://www.icivics.org/

CivXNow Coalition

https://www.civxnow.org/

"Back in the Day: Return to civics classes may be crucial for American society" Philadelphia Tribune, September 12, 2020

https://www.phillytrib.com/commentary/backintheday/back-in-the-day-return-to-civics-classes-may-be-crucial-for-american-society/article_b9ad8256-f28d-564e-aad8-eae2a93df78a.html

Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker is the Dean Emerita of the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and the former Executive Director of the State Bar of California.

Dr. Jill Goldenziel talks about how she teaches law and leadership to Marines, how the U.S. needs to think differently about online free speech, and how China and America use law as an operational tool

This episode references:

The New Fighting Words?: How U.S. Law Hampers the Fight Against Information Warfare

https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jcl/vol22/iss1/3/

Packingham v. North Carolina 582 US _ (2017)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2016/15-1194

S. 4534: A bill to amend section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 to modify the scope of protection from civil liability for “good Samaritan” blocking and screening of offensive material

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/116/s4534

Law as a Battlefield: The U.S., China, and Global Escalation of Lawfare

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3525442

The South China Sea Arbitration (The Republic of Philippines v. The People's Republic of China)

https://pca-cpa.org/en/cases/7/

Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration

https://refugeesmigrants.un.org/sites/default/files/180713_agreed_outcome_global_compact_for_migration.pdf

What's on Your CV of Purpose?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/whats-your-cv-purpose-jill-goldenziel

Dr. Jill Goldenziel is a Professor at Marine Corps University-Command and Staff College

https://jillgoldenziel.com/

This episode references

"Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is out of coma and responsive after suspected poisoning, hospital says" CBS News, September 8, 2020

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexei-navalny-russian-opposition-leader-out-of-coma-suspected-poisoning/

"Trolls, tracking and films: How Putin's Russia obsessively hounded opposition leader Navalny" Washington Post, August 29, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/navalny-russia-poison-kremlin/2020/08/28/03ad9c58-e6d2-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, Volumes 1-5

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures

Statement by NCSC Director William Evanina: Election Threat Update for the American Public, August 7, 2020

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2139-statement-by-ncsc-director-william-evanina-election-threat-update-for-the-american-public

Robert Dannenberg is a former CIA officer who served as Chief of Operations for the Counter Terrorism Center, Chief of the Central Eurasia Division and Chief of the CIA’s Information Operations Center.

https://www.susandavis.com/robert-dannenberg/

Robert Dannenberg, who served in the CIA for 24 years, discusses Putin's history and worldview, how he views NATO and the United States, and why Russia launched interference campaigns against US elections.

This episode references

"Alexei Navalny: Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok - Germany" BBC, September 2, 2020

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54002880

"Trolls, tracking and films: How Putin's Russia obsessively hounded opposition leader Navalny" Washington Post, August 29, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/navalny-russia-poison-kremlin/2020/08/28/03ad9c58-e6d2-11ea-bf44-0d31c85838a5_story.html

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, Volumes 1-5

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/report-select-committee-intelligence-united-states-senate-russian-active-measures

Statement by NCSC Director William Evanina: Election Threat Update for the American Public, August 7, 2020

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/item/2139-statement-by-ncsc-director-william-evanina-election-threat-update-for-the-american-public

Robert Dannenberg is a former CIA officer who served as Chief of Operations for the Counter Terrorism Center, Chief of the Central Eurasia Division and Chief of the CIA’s Information Operations Center.

https://www.susandavis.com/robert-dannenberg/

Senior women in the intelligence community discuss national security legal issues, provide career advice, and answer audience questions.

Watch the full panel video

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/

The biographies of all speakers can be found below

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/speaker-bios-winsl-aug.pdf

In this episode Amb. Bonnie Jenkins discusses the value of education in policy work, her different experiences in government and think tanks, and her work advocating for women of color in national security.

This episode references:

The Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission)

https://9-11commission.gov/report/

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's study on Radioactive Sources: Applications and Alternative Technologies

https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/radioactive-sources-applications-and-alternative-technologies

NSLT episode "Women in National Security Law LIVE" June 11, 2020

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/nslt/20200611-women-in-nat-sec-law/

Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Transformation

https://www.wcaps.org/

Amb. Bonnie Jenkins is the Founder and Chair of Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institute

https://www.brookings.edu/experts/bonnie-jenkins/