National Security Law Today

This episode references:

" 'The Damage is Done': Judge Slams John Bolton, but Refuses to Block Book, National Law Journal, June 18, 2020

https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2020/06/20/the-damage-is-done-judge-slams-john-bolton-but-refuses-to-block-book/

Executive Order 13526

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2010-title3-vol1/pdf/CFR-2010-title3-vol1-eo13526.pdf

Iran and the Law of Armed Conflict with Bill Banks and John Bellinger

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/nslt/20200109-iran-and-the-law-of-armed-conflict/

"Interpol shuts down Iran’s request for Trump arrest" CNBC, June 30 2020

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/30/interpol-shuts-down-irans-request-for-trump-arrest.html

"Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says" New York Times, June 26, 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/us/politics/russia-afghanistan-bounties.html 

"Republican lawmakers confirm intelligence reports on Russian operation to target U.S. troops but say material needs further review" Washington Post, June 29, 2020

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-us-intelligence-did-not-find-reports-of-russian-bounties-to-taliban-linked-militants-credible/2020/06/29/a69e1722-b9f4-11ea-80b9-40ece9a701dc_story.html

18 USC 2339B

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2011-title18/pdf/USCODE-2011-title18-partI-chap113B-sec2339B.pdf

UNSC report on Abdelmalek Droukdel

https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/1267/aq_sanctions_list/summaries/individual/abdelmalek-droukdel

Executive Order on Blocking Property Of Certain Persons Associated With The International Criminal Court

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-certain-persons-associated-international-criminal-court/

Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court

https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/documents/rs-eng.pdf

This episode references:

SIGAR's 2019 High Risk Listhttps://www.sigar.mil/pdf/spotlight/2019_High-Risk_List.pdf

Interactive High Risk Listhttps://www.sigar.mil/interactive-reports/high-risk-list/index.html

SIGAR's April 30, 2020 Quarterly Report to Congresshttps://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2020-04-30qr.pdf

Learning Lessons: Capturing and Institutionalizing Lessonsfrom Complex Stabilization Effortshttps://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-17-15-LL.pdf

"Boondoggle HQ: The $25 Million Building in Afghanistan Nobody Needed" Pro Publica, May 20, 2015.https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/boondoggle

Cleveland.Com "John Sopko fought the Mafia in Cleveland and now he's fighting fraud and corruption in Afghanistan", updated January 12, 2019https://www.cleveland.com/open/2013/07/he_fought_the_mafia_in_clevela.html

John Sopko is the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstructionhttps://www.sigar.mil/about/leadership/leadership.aspx?SSR=1&SubSSR=2&Sub2SSR=1&WP=IG%20SIGAR

This episode references:

The Inspector General Act of 1978, As Amended

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title5/title5a/node20&edition=prelim

2008 National Defense Authorization Act, SIGAR authorities at Section 1229

https://www.congress.gov/110/plaws/publ181/PLAW-110publ181.pdf

SIGAR's 2019 High Risk List

https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/spotlight/2019_High-Risk_List.pdf

Interactive High Risk List

https://www.sigar.mil/interactive-reports/high-risk-list/index.html

SIGAR's April 30, 2020 Quarterly Report to Congress

https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/quarterlyreports/2020-04-30qr.pdf

Counternarcotics: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan

https://www.sigar.mil/interactive-reports/counternarcotics/index.html

Reintegration of Ex-Combatants: Lessons from the U.S.Experience in Afghanistan

https://www.sigar.mil/interactive-reports/reintegration/index.html

Washington Post, "The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War", December 9, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/documents-database/

Cleveland.Com "John Sopko fought the Mafia in Cleveland and now he's fighting fraud and corruption in Afghanistan", updated January 12, 2019

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2013/07/he_fought_the_mafia_in_clevela.html

John Sopko is the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction

https://www.sigar.mil/about/leadership/leadership.aspx?SSR=1&SubSSR=2&Sub2SSR=1&WP=IG%20SIGAR

This episode references:

Women in National Security Law Launch Panel Video

https://players.brightcove.net/1866680404001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6162003662001

The Leadership Council for Women in National Security

https://www.lcwins.org/

The Op Ed Project

https://www.theopedproject.org/

Cynthia Ryan is the Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security and former General Counsel of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency

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

Amb. Bonnie Jenkins is the Founder and Chair of Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security

https://www.wcaps.org/board-of-directors

Mieke Eoyang is the Vice President for the National Security Program and Chairperson of the Cyber Enforcement Initiative at Third Way

https://www.thirdway.org/about/leadership/mieke-eoyang

Dawn Browning is the Deputy General Counsel for the National Security and Cyber Law Branch at the Federal Bureau of Investigation

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

The black letter law and articles in this episode are:

The Insurrection Act 10 USC Section 251-253

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title10/subtitleA/part1/chapter13&edition=prelim

Posse Comitatus Act 18 USC Section 1385

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1385

William Banks, Stephen Dycus “Soldiers on the Home Front: The Domestic Role of the American Military”

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674736740

William Banks “Providing “Supplemental Security” – The Insurrection Act and the Military Role in Responding to Domestic Crises,” Journal of National Security Law and Policy, December 2009

https://jnslp.com/2009/12/15/providing-supplemental-security-the-insurrection-act-and-the-military-role-in-responding-to-domestic-crises/

William Banks, Stephen Dycus “Martial Law Would Sweep the Country Into a Great Legal Unknown” The Atlantic, March 27, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/martial-law-would-sweep-country-great-legal-unknown/608773/

Calling Forth Act of 1792

https://www.constitution.org/mil/mil_act_1792.htm

Stephen Vladeck, “Emergency Power and the Militia Acts” Yale Law Journal, October 2004.

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/emergency-power-and-the-militia-acts

Executive Order 10730

https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=89&page=transcript

Executive Order 11053

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-11053-providing-assistance-for-the-removal-unlawful-obstructions-justice

Executive Order 12804

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-12804-providing-for-the-restoration-law-and-order-the-city-and-county-los

Letter from DC Mayor Muriel Bowser to President Trump

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6937560/Bowser-Letter.pdf

“Federal Plan to Control DC Protests Taps 7,600 Personnel” Bloomberg News, June 4, 2020.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-05/federal-plan-to-control-d-c-protests-has-7-600-personnel-tapped

Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department (Christopher Commission Report)

https://archive.org/details/ChristopherCommissionLAPD

“U.S. Troops Went to the Border in 1997. They Killed an American Boy.” New York Times, November 27, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/us/esequiel-hernandez-death-border-mexico.html

“Ex-defense chief Mattis rips Trump for dividing Americans” AP, June 3, 2020

https://apnews.com/47a55054ccd7912fd7ceae833fc3feb6

“Troops should not be used as law enforcement against protesters, Esper says” Military Times, June 3, 2020

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/06/03/troops-should-not-be-used-as-law-enforcement-against-protestors-secdef-says/

William Banks, Stephen Dycus, Peter Raven Hansen, Stephen Vladeck “National Security Law (Aspen Casebook) 7th Edition”

https://www.amazon.com/National-Security-Law-Aspen-Casebook/dp/1543806791/

Samuel Huntington “The Soldier and the State”

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674817364

Charles Dunlap "Mobilizing the military for domestic operations: some legal considerations" Lawfire, June 2, 2020.

https://sites.duke.edu/lawfire/2020/06/02/mobilizing-the-military-for-domestic-operations-some-legal-considerations/

Professor William Banks is Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security Advisory Committee and an Emeritus Professor at the Syracuse University College of Law

http://law.syr.edu/profile/william-banks1

Harvey Rishikof is a Visiting Professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law and the Director of Policy and Cyber Security Research at the University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory For Intelligence and Security

https://www.law.temple.edu/contact/harvey-rishikof/

The black letter law and articles in this episode:

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) 30 USC 1801 et seq

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1801

The DOJ Inspector General Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation Full Report

https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf

The FBI's response to the Court's Order from January 10, 2020

https://www.lawfareblog.com/fbi-responds-fisa-court-order-regarding-inspector-general-report

Memo to the FBI Regarding the Execution of Woods Procedures for Applications Filed with the FISC

https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2020/a20047.pdf

Opinion and Order In Re Accuracy Concerns Regarding FBI Matters Submitted to the FISC, March 4, 2020

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6796032/Misc-19-02-Opinion-and-Order-PJ-JEB-200304.pdf

Response to the Court's Corrected Opinion and Order Dated March 5, 2020 and Update to the Government's January 10, 2020 Response

https://www.justice.gov/nsd/page/file/1267686/download

Opinion and Order In Re Accuracy Concerns Regarding FBI Matters Submitted to the FISC, April 3, 2020

https://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/Misc%2019%2002%20Order%20PJ%20JEB%20200403.pdf

NSLT Episode "Inspectors General: FISA Oversight and Woods Review with Michael Woods"

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/nslt/inspectors-general--fisa-oversight-and-woods-review-with-michael/

Technology By Design Episode with Yvette Bourcicot

https://technologybydesign.libsyn.com/yvette-bourcicot

Women In National Security Law Launch registration

https://americanbar.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sfzx6SUHRfmOmtvM2cTtSQ

Bob Litt is of counsel at Morrison & Foerster

https://www.mofo.com/people/robert-litt.html

The black letter law and articles in this episode are:

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) 50 USC 1801 et seq.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1801

Original Woods Procedure Memo, April 5, 2001

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/woods-procedures-memo-2001.pdf

The DOJ Inspector General Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation Full Report

https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf

Opinion and Order In Re Accuracy Concerns Regarding FBI Matters Submitted to the FISC, March 4, 2020

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6796032/Misc-19-02-Opinion-and-Order-PJ-JEB-200304.pdf

Opinion and Order In Re Accuracy Concerns Regarding FBI Matters Submitted to the FISC, April 3, 2020

https://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/Misc%2019%2002%20Order%20PJ%20JEB%20200403.pdf

Michael Woods is an Associate General Counsel at Verizon

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/woods-short-bio.pdf

The black letter law and articles referenced in this episode:

"Fired Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson Pushes Back On His Dismissal"

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/03/827195027/president-trump-fires-intelligence-community-inspector-general-michael-atkinson

Inspector General Act of 1978 (As Amended)

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title5/title5a/node20&edition=prelim

CIA Inspector General Act of 1989

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-103/pdf/STATUTE-103-Pg1701.pdf

ODNI Inspector General position created in IRTPA 2004

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ458/pdf/PLAW-108publ458.pdf

Tenure of Office Act, 1867-1887

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Johnson_TenureofOfficeAct.pdf

Myers v. U.S., 47 S. Ct. 21 (1926)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/272us52

Humphrey’s Executor, 295 U.S. 602 (1935)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/295us602

Morrison v. Olson 487 U.S. 654 (1988)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1987/87-1279

50 USC 3033 Inspector General of the Intelligence Community

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/3033

Vacancies Act of 1998

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/3345

EO 12356

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/codification/executive-order/12356.html

EO 13848

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-imposing-certain-sanctions-event-foreign-interference-united-states-election/

31 CFR 579.201

https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=5c29d1f87959d157585373fd9bd4ec3f&mc=true&node=se31.3.579_1201&rgn=div8

"Forty Years After Church-Pike: What’s Different Now?" Joel Brenner, May 15, 2015

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/nsa-speech-may-15-brenner.pdf

Joel Brenner is a senior research fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies

http://cis.mit.edu/people/joel-brenner

The black letter law and articles in this episode are:

P3 Tech Consulting

https://www.p3techconsulting.com/

Inside Unmanned Systems Magazine

https://insideunmannedsystems.com/

Women to Watch in UAS Awards

https://womenanddrones.com/

InterDrone Conference (postponed to December 15-17, 2020)

https://interdrone.com/

CUAVE Law-Tech Connect

https://www.expouav.com/law-tech-connect/

Chula Vista, CA UAS Drone Program

https://www.chulavistaca.gov/departments/police-department/programs/uas-drone-program

Drone Life

https://dronelife.com/

DRONERESPONDERS

https://www.droneresponders.org/

MarketScale Podcast “Can Drones Make a Difference During the COVID-19 Pandemic?”

https://marketscale.com/industries/software-and-technology/can-drones-make-a-difference-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

FAA Summary of Small UAS Rule (Part 107)

https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/Part_107_Summary.pdf

UAS Integrated Pilot Program Lead Participants

https://www.faa.gov/uas/programs_partnerships/integration_pilot_program/lead_participants/

GAO Report “Unmanned Aircraft Systems: FAA Could Better Leverage Test Site Program to Advance Drone Integration” January, 2020

https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-97

Full GAO Report PDF

https://www.gao.gov/assets/710/703726.pdf

FAA Part 135 Drone Package Delivery Fact Sheet

https://www.faa.gov/uas/advanced_operations/package_delivery_drone/

Part 107 Waiver Certificates

https://www.faa.gov/uas/commercial_operators/part_107_waivers/waivers_issued/

Emergency Situation Special Government Interest Process

https://www.faa.gov/uas/advanced_operations/emergency_situations/

Administrative Procedures Act Good Cause Exception 5 U.S.C. § 553(b)(3)(B)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/553

Kyllo v. United States 533 US 27 (2001)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2000/99-8508

10 USC § 130i.Protection of certain facilities and assets from unmanned aircraft

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/130i

FAA Special Federal Aviation Regulation Relief For Certain Persons and Operations During the Coronavirus Diseaase 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreak, May 4, 2020

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-05-04/pdf/2020-09472.pdf

FAA May 4, 2020 SFAR Fact Sheet

https://www.faa.gov/uas/media/107_65_SFAR_FAQ.pdf

Dawn Zoldi is the founder and CEO of P3 Tech Consulting and a 25-year Air Force veteran and retired as a Colonel

https://www.p3techconsulting.com/about

The black letter law and articles in this episode are:

Jack Beard “Soft Law's Failure on the Horizon: The International Code of Conduct for Outer Space Activities” University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law, 2017

https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jil/vol38/iss2/2/

The Woomera Manual Project

https://law.adelaide.edu.au/woomera/

The Outer Space Treaty of 1967

https://history.nasa.gov/1967treaty.html

The international outer space treaty regime

https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties.html

“France accuses Russia of spying on military from space” Reuters, September 2018

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-russia-security/france-accuses-russia-of-spying-on-military-from-space-idUSKCN1LN1XT

The Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space (COPUOS)

https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/copuos/comm-subcomms.html

Jack Beard is an Associate Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Space, Cyber, and Telecom Law Program at the University of Nebraska College of Law

https://law.unl.edu/jack-m-beard/

Dale Stephens is a Professor at Adelaide Law School

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/directory/dale.stephens