National Security Law Today

The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode are:

Attorney General William Barr’s Summary of the Muller Report to Congress

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/democrats.judiciary.house.gov/files/documents/AG%20March%2024%202019%20Letter%20to%20House%20and%20Senate%20Judiciary%20Committees.pdf

Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 6e

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_6

Carter Page FISA Application

https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-justice-department-releases-carter-page-fisa-application

Indictment of Thirteen Russians for attempting to interfere in the US Political System

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-thirteen-russian-individuals-and-three-russian-companies-scheme-interfere

Senate Intelligence Committee joint response to the Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/committee-findings-2017-intelligence-community-assessment

Jamil Jaffer is the founder of the National Security Institute at George Mason University

https://www.law.gmu.edu/faculty/directory/adjunct/jaffer_jamil_n

The Interim Report of the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service

https://www.inspire2serve.gov/reports/interim

Avril Haines is a member of the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service, a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Univeristy World Projects, and the former Deputy National Security Adviser.

Paul Lekas is the General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer for the Commission.

The black letter law and articles in this episode are:

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2009-title22/pdf/USCODE-2009-title22-chap11-subchapII.pdf

Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-14895-7

China Global Television Network (CGTN) registered as a foreign agent

https://www.thedailybeast.com/under-pressure-from-us-authorities-state-owned-chinese-tv-network-registers-as-foreign-agent

“When is a TV Channel a Foreign Agent” in the Atlantic Magazine

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/04/rt-lobbyist-russia-putin-media/390621/

United States v. Peace Information Center, 97 F. Supp. 255 (D.D.C. 1951)

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/97/255/2247887/

Paul Manafort Sentencing (Eastern District of Virginia only)

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/08/us/politics/manafort-sentencing-ellis.html

Skadden Arps FARA Settlement with the Departmetn of Justice

https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1124381/download

Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections (Declassified Version)

https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf

OIG Audit of the Department of Justice’s FARA Enforcement Unit

https://oig.justice.gov/reports/2016/a1624.pdf

Summary of the Audit:

https://oig.justice.gov/press/2016/2016-09-07.pdf

FARA reform bills from:

Sen. Chuck Grassley

https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/sen-grassley-rep-johnson-introduce-bill-shine-light-foreign-influences

Sen. Dianne Feinstein

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=2DC67701-9D40-4068-9D21-4E5442748FF9

Dr. Bradley Hart is an Assistant Professor at Fresno State University and the author of “Hitler’s American Friends”

http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/mcj/faculty-staff/faculty/bradley-hart.html

Kathleen Kedian is a Senior Counsel at Raytheon Company and a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University Law School. She served as Principal Deputy Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section and Chief of the Counterespionage Section of the US Department of Justice National Security Division.

The black letter law and articles in this episode are:

The Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2009-title22/pdf/USCODE-2009-title22-chap11-subchapII.pdf

Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-250-14895-7

The Sedition Act of 1918

http://www.legisworks.org/congress/65/publaw-150.pdf

Abrams v. United States 250 US 616 (1919)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/250us616

Alien Registration Act of 1940 or The Smith Act

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385

Viereck v. United States, 318 U.S. 236 (1943)

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/318/236/

A Night at the Garden short film

https://anightatthegarden.com/

The Official German Report

http://www.gbv.de/dms/sub-hamburg/44666104X.pdf

Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 (1951)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/341us494

Yates v. United States, 354 U.S. 298 (1957)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1956/6

Dr. Bradley Hart is an Assistant Professor at California State University, Fresno and the author of “Hitler’s American Friends”

http://www.fresnostate.edu/artshum/mcj/faculty-staff/faculty/bradley-hart.html

Kathleen Kedian is a Senior Counsel at Raytheon Company and a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University Law School. She served as Principal Deputy Chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section and Chief of the Counterespionage Section of the US Department of Justice National Security Division.

This episode references:

The 2019 National Intelligence Strategy

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/National_Intelligence_Strategy_2019.pdf

Corin Stone is Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Strategy & Engagement

https://www.dni.gov/index.php/who-we-are/leadership/deputy-dni-strategy-engagement

The articles and references discussed in this episode are:

The 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_services/law_national_security/events_cle/past_event_info_materials/28arc/

Defending Democratic Institutions project at CSIS

https://www.csis.org/programs/international-security-program/defending-democratic-institutions

“U.S. Cyber Command operation disrupted Internet access of Russian troll factory on day of 2018 midterms” in the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-cyber-command-operation-disrupted-internet-access-of-russian-troll-factory-on-day-of-2018-midterms/2019/02/26/1827fc9e-36d6-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html?utm_term=.e6188b5b6ca1

Suzanne Spaulding is a Senior Adviser in the Homeland Security and International Security Programs at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

https://www.csis.org/people/suzanne-spaulding

Michael Chertoff is the Executive Chairman of the Chertoff Group

https://www.chertoffgroup.com/team/michael-chertoff

His recent book is Exploding Data: Reclaiming our Cyber Security in the Digital Age

https://www.amazon.com/Exploding-Data-Reclaiming-Security-Digital/dp/0802127932

For more on the 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_services/law_national_security/events_cle/past_event_info_materials/28arc/

The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode are:

Olmstead v. United States 277 US 438 (1928)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1900-1940/277us438

Katz v. United States 389 U.S. 347 (1967)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1967/35

US v. US District Court (Keith case) 407 US 297 (1972)

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1971/70-153

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) text

https://legcounsel.house.gov/Comps/Foreign%20Intelligence%20Surveillance%20Act%20Of%201978.pdf

Carpenter v. United States 585 US _ (2018)

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/carpenter-v-united-states-2/

US v Jones 565 US _ (2012)

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-jones/

Riley v California 573 US _ (2014)

https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/riley-v-california/

Germany directing Facebook to stop data aggregation

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-germany/germany-to-restrict-facebooks-data-gathering-activities-idUKKCN1PW0SW

California Consumer Privacy Act A.B. 375

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375

“The Fourth Amendment in the Information Age” by Robert Litt in the Yale Law Review

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/fourth-amendment-information-age

Robert 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:

Judgement in Colvin v. Syrian Arab Republic

https://ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2016cv1423-59

“U.S. Court Orders Syria To Pay $300 Million For Killing Of Journalist Marie Colvin” on NPR, featuring a picture of Colvin and her distinctive eyepatch

https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690325322/u-s-court-orders-syria-to-pay-300-million-for-killing-of-journalist-marie-colvin

Letelier v. Republic of Chile, 488 F. Supp. 655 (D.D.C 1980)

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/488/665/1400196/

Von Dardel v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 623 F. Supp. 246 (D.D.C. 1985), brought on behalf of Raoul Wallenburg

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/623/246/1514345/

Von Dardel v. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics 736 F. Supp. 1 (D.D.C. 1990), default judgement vacated

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/736/1/1884255/

28 USC 1605A (a) 1, the Terrorism Exception to the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1605A

Settlement with the PLO in the Leon Klinghoffer case

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/01/19/plo-agrees-to-settlement-of-lawsuit-over-achille-lauro-slaying/a3d42bb7-8b48-43a1-a081-1aae3b055318/

State Sponsors of Terrorism List

https://www.state.gov/j/ct/list/c14151.htm

Flatow v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 999 F. Supp. 1 (D.D.C. 1999)

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/999/1/2267352/

Algiers Accords of 1981

http://www.parstimes.com/history/algiers_accords.pdf

Mark Zaid is the managing partner of The Law Offices of Mark Zaid

https://markzaid.com/zaid/

The black letter law and articles on this topic are:

Panel IX – Social Media: 2020 at the 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference

https://bcove.video/2DJ50Vj

LikeWar by Peter Singer

https://www.amazon.com/LikeWar-Weaponization-P-W-Singer/dp/1328695743

Trump-Russia Investigations: A Guide by Rachel Levinson-Waldman

https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/publications/Trump-Russia%20Investigations_0.pdf

Pew Research Study “Activism in the Social Media Age”

http://www.pewinternet.org/2018/07/11/activism-in-the-social-media-age/

Interagency Active Measures Working Group

https://www.lawfareblog.com/active-measures-working-group

FISAbot

https://twitter.com/fisabot

Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/08/mediacloud

Peter Singer is Strategist and Senior Fellow at New America

https://www.newamerica.org/our-people/peter-warren-singer/

Rachel Levinson-Waldman is Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program

https://www.brennancenter.org/expert/rachel-levinson-waldman