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June 07, 2018 An Overview of Government Oversight Part II with Mieke Eoyang
The black letter law and articles in this episode are:
Mieke Eoyang in Politico: “How the House Intel Committee Broke Bad”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/20/house-intel-committee-oversight-217033
Mieke Eoyang at the Hoover Center “Beyond Privacy and Security”
https://www.hoover.org/research/beyond-privacy-security-role-telecommunications-industry-electronic-surveillance-0
State Secret Privilege from U.S. v Reynold 345 US 1 (1953)
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/345us1
DOJ Inspector General Report on the President’s Surveillance Programs
http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/117330907753/the-department-of-justice-releases-inspectors
The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
https://www.congress.gov/110/plaws/publ261/PLAW-110publ261.pdf
Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT ACT
https://apps.americanbar.org/natsecurity/patriotdebates/act-section-215
Minimization procedures
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3718776/2016-Cert-FISC-Memo-Opin-Order-Apr-2017-1.pdf
HPSCI Rules
https://docs.house.gov/meetings/IG/IG00/CPRT-116-HPRT-IG00-CommitteeRules.pdf
HPSCI created by and act amending the House Rules
https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/h.res_658_passed_14_july_1977.pdf
Article I Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution
https://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec9.html
Mieke Eoyang is the Vice President for the National Security Program at Third Way
https://www.thirdway.org/about/leadership/mieke-eoyang
27 min
May 31, 2018 An Overview of Government Oversight with Mieke Eoyang
The black letter law and articles in this episode are:
Mieke Eoyang in Politico: “How the House Intel Committee Broke Bad”
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/20/house-intel-committee-oversight-217033
Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, 1975-76 (Church Committee Reports):
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/resources/intelligence-related-commissions
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Report, 1976 (Pike Committee Report):
https://archive.org/details/PikeCommitteeReports
Operation Shamrock is reported on in Book III of the Church Committee reports, or summarized:
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art4.html#rft8
Iran-Contra Minority Report:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2702452-Iran-Contra-Minority-Report.html
Mieke Eoyang is the Vice President for the National Security Program at Third Way
https://www.thirdway.org/about/leadership/mieke-eoyang
28 min
May 24, 2018 Threats, Norms and Cyber Mercenaries with Tim Maurer
The black letter law and articles in this episode are:
Cyber Mercenaries: The State, Hackers, and Power
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cyber-mercenaries/B685B7555E1C52FBE5DFE6F6594A1C00
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1030
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
U.S.-China Cyber Agreement (October 16, 2015)
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/IN10376.pdf
Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare
http://csef.ru/media/articles/3990/3990.pdf
Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations (not available as PDF)
https://ccdcoe.org/tallinn-manual-20-international-law-applicable-cyber-operations-be-launched.html
United Nations International Group of Governmental Experts on Information Security (GGE)
https://www.un.org/disarmament/group-of-governmental-experts/
Mutually Assured Disruption – Report, National Committee on American Foreign Policy, (January 12, 2018)
https://www.ncafp.org/12606-2/
“Protecting Financial Data in Cyberspace: Precedent for Further Progress on Cyber Norms?” Just Security (August 24, 2017)
https://www.justsecurity.org/44411/protecting-financial-data-cyberspace-precedent-progress-cyber-norms
“Toward a Global Norm Against Manipulating the Integrity of Financial Data” CEIP
http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/03/27/toward-global-norm-against-manipulating-integrity-of-financial-data-pub-68403
Convention on Cybercrime
https://rm.coe.int/1680081561
Presidential Policy Directive 41
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/26/presidential-policy-directive-united-states-cyber-incident
Fact sheet on the PPD
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/26/fact-sheet-presidential-policy-directive-united-states-cyber-incident-1
Cyber Executive Order
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidential-executive-order-strengthening-cybersecurity-federal-networks-critical-infrastructure/
Cyber Sanctions
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/pages/cyber.aspx
Cyber Sanctions for Russian hackers in election interference
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0312
Tim Maurer is the Co-Director of the Cyber Policy Institute at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
http://carnegieendowment.org/experts/1086
36 min
May 17, 2018 The Future of Digital Intelligence LIVE from the Lawyer Jurga
The panelists’ recommended articles are:
The Fourth Amendment in the Information Age, Robert S. Litt, 126 Yale L.J. Forum 8 (2016).
U.S. Commitment to the Privacy Shield Remains Strong, Robert S. Litt, Lawfare, (June 15, 2017).
The New Intelligence Sharing Procedures Are Not About Law Enforcement, Robert S. Litt, Just Security, (Mar. 30, 2016).
A Way Forward on Section 702 Queries, Elizabeth Goitein & Robert S. Litt, Just Security, (Feb. 20, 2018).
Illuminating a New Domain: The Role and Nature of Military Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in Cyberspace, Chris Inglis U.S. Naval Academy, (Sept. 10, 2016).
A World Without Work, Derek Thompson, The Atlantic (July/Aug. 2015).
America’s Unseen Social Crisis: Men Without Work, Nicholas Eberstadt, Time, Sept. 22, 2016.
Summer Study on Autonomy, U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Science Board (June 2016).
Artificial Intelligence and National Security, Greg Allen & Taniel Chan, The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, (July, 2017).
The full audio of the panel “Future of Digital Intelligence: Cyber, Quantum Computing, AI and Cryptography Part I - Intelligence Collection”:
https://bcove.video/2q5hYF8
25 min
May 10, 2018 Company Man Part II with John Rizzo
The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode:
Redacted CIA cables on the existence and destruction of the tapes
https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/cia_release20100415_p10-18.pdf
CIA acknowledged destruction of tapes in court filing
https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/letter-judge-hellerstein-acknowledging-destroyed-cia-interrogation-tapes?redirect=cpredirect/38869
Justice Department closed criminal investigation into Jose Rodriguez
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-statement-investigation-destruction-videotapes-cia-personnel
Redacted 2004 CIA Inspector General report on Detention and Interrogation
https://fas.org/irp/cia/product/ig-interrog.pdf
John Rizzo’s confirmation hearing video
https://www.c-span.org/video/?199218-1/cia-general-counsel-nomination
Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing video. Listeners should note that the hearing references Mr. Rizzo's memoir and Ms. Haspel disputes some details of his account.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?444988-1/gina-haspel-pledges-restart-cia-interrogation-program
John Rizzo is senior counsel at Steptoe & Johnson
https://www.steptoe.com/en/lawyers/john-rizzo.html
His book is “Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA”
https://www.amazon.com/Company-Man-Thirty-Controversy-Crisis/dp/1451673930
19 min
May 03, 2018 Company Man with John Rizzo
The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode:
CIA “Enhanced Interrogation Technique” program
Senate report on torture: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/senate-intelligence-committee-study-on-cia-detention-and-interrogation-program
CIA fact sheet: https://www.cia.gov/news-information/press-releases-statements/2014-press-releases-statements/cia-fact-sheet-ssci-study-on-detention-interrogation-program.html
Human Rights Watch FAQ: https://www.humanrightsfirst.org/resource/senate-report-cia-torture-frequently-asked-questions
Destruction of tapes
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/washington/03web-intel.html
Attorney Generals Act and OLC advice to agency heads
https://www.justice.gov/olc/best-practices-olc-legal-advice-and-written-opinions
“Torture Memos” from the Justice Department OLC
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB127/02.08.01.pdf
https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu//NSAEBB/NSAEBB127/020801.pdf
Memo to John Rizzo: http://cdm266901.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p266901coll4/id/1912
https://www.aclu.org/files/pdfs/safefree/yoo_army_torture_memo.pdf
18 USC 2340, the definition of “torture”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2340
Scooter Libby pardon
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/page/file/1052911/download
John Rizzo is senior counsel at Steptoe & Johnson
https://www.steptoe.com/en/lawyers/john-rizzo.html
His book is “Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA”
https://www.amazon.com/Company-Man-Thirty-Controversy-Crisis/dp/1451673930
22 min
April 26, 2018 The Use of Force in North Korea: The Legal Process
The black letter law and articles in this week’s episode are:
Op Ed by National Security Adviser John Bolton “The Legal Case for Striking North Korea First”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-legal-case-for-striking-north-korea-first-1519862374
Op Ed by Richard Cohen “Trump will exit the North Korea summit a failure”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-will-exit-the-north-korea-summit-a-failure/2018/04/23/c2b7da22-4720-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html?utm_term=.99b51222b127
President Obama’s address on avoiding use of force in Syria, after chemical weapon attacks
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/09/10/remarks-president-address-nation-syria
Jus in Bello and Jus ad Bellum
https://guides.library.harvard.edu/c.php?g=310988&p=2079383
Joint Chiefs of Staff hold off on enforcing ban on trans military members announced on Twitter
http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-top-u-s-general-tells-military-leaders-1501171360-htmlstory.html
Congressional Authorization for the Use of Military Force from 2001
https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf
War Powers Resolution 50 U.S.C. 1541–1548
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/chapter-33
UN Charter
http://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/un-charter-full-text/
Nicaragua v. the United States of America (ICJ)
http://www.icj-cij.org/en/case/70
33 min
April 19, 2018 Watch the Skies with Kevin Pomfret
The black letter law discussed in this episode is:
Commercial Space Launch Act of 1984
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-98/pdf/STATUTE-98-Pg3055.pdf
Amended 2004
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/media/PL108-492.pdf
National Space Council meeting in FL
https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/second-national-space-council-meeting-focuses-on-regulatory-reform-china/
Commercial Remote Sensing Regulatory Affairs Office
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/CRSRA/
Land Remote Sensing Policy (Part of National Commercial Space Program Act)
https://www.nasa.gov/offices/ogc/commercial/15uscchap82.html
Strava collecting geo location data on military bases
https://www.wired.com/story/strava-heat-map-military-bases-fitness-trackers-privacy/
GPS Selective Availability
https://www.gps.gov/systems/gps/modernization/sa/
Union of Concerned Scientists estimate of satellites
https://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/space-weapons/satellite-database#.WtiuOC7waUk
There are differing estimates of the number of satellites in space
https://www.pixalytics.com/sats-orbiting-earth-2017/
UN Principles of Remote Sensing
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/41/a41r065.htm
National and Commercial Space Programs (Title 51)
http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title51&edition=prelim
Licensing of Private Remote Sensing Systems 15 CFR 960
https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/15/part-960
United States v. Jones 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012)
https://www.oyez.org/cases/2011/10-1259
Robert Draper article on surveillance and migration
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/02/surveillance-watching-you/
Kevin Pomfret is a Partner at Williams Mullen
http://www.williamsmullen.com/people/kevin-d-pomfret
33 min
April 12, 2018 Artificial Intelligence LIVE at the Annual Conference
The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode is:
AI winning at Texas Hold Em
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-to-fold-humans-poker-playing-ai-beats-pros-at-texas-hold-rsquo-em/
International Humanitarian Law
https://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/what_is_ihl.pdf
Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems at the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
https://www.unog.ch/80256EE600585943/(httpPages)/8FA3C2562A60FF81C1257CE600393DF6?OpenDocument
The UN Group of Government Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
https://www.unog.ch/80256EE600585943/(httpPages)/F027DAA4966EB9C7C12580CD0039D7B5?OpenDocument
The OODA loop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
Quantum Computing
https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/learn/what-is-quantum-computing/
Quantum Computing and security
https://www.forbes.com/sites/juniper/2017/11/01/cybersecurity-in-the-age-of-quantum-computing/#221b56a8423c
Full video of the panel Artificial Intelligence: Issues of Technology, Ethics and Law
https://www.americanbar.org/content/aba/groups/public_services/law_national_security/events_cle/past_annual_review_conferences/27ARC-panel-2.html
33 min
April 05, 2018 Brains and Bombers with Dina Temple-Raston
Listen to Dina Temple-Raston’s new podcast series What Were You Thinking on Apple Podcasts or Audible at audible.com/adolescentbrain
What Were You Thinking Review:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2018/01/17/what-were-you-thinking-is-a-podcast-parents-need-to-hear/?utm_term=.23e91cbd0416
US Department of Justice statement on charging Abudullahi Yusuf:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/two-minnesotans-charged-conspiracy-provide-material-support-islamic-state-iraq-and-levant
Abdullahi Yusuf released:
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/11/09/abdullahi-yusuf-isis-sentence-released
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda:
http://unictr.unmict.org/
Journalists sentenced by ICTR for role in the Rwandan genocide:
http://unictr.unmict.org/en/news/three-media-leaders-convicted-genocide
Countering Violent Extremism report from the ABA Rule of Law Initiative:
https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/directories/roli/misc/rule-of-law-approaches-to-countering-violent-extremism-2017.pdf
Dina Temple-Raston is a reporter and counterterrorism correspondent at NPR. She has also written The Jihad Next Door, A Death in Texas, and other books.
https://www.npr.org/people/11209543/dina-temple-raston
36 min

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