The National Security Law Podcast

Episode 165: This Podcast Prefers Its Nothing Burgers to Be Medium Rare

05.02.2020 - By Bobby Chesney and Steve VladeckPlay

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What a fun episode!  Co-hosts Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck recorded "live" before the Austin Bar Association, as the finale of their day-long Zoom conference.  On tap:

* The ODNI report on FISA statistics: We have a detailed discussion of the highlights, focusing on whether there is cause for alarm in the renews that FBI in some instances failed to get a warrant (as required by statute) before accessing the content of U.S. person communications incidentally collected via 702.

* Pandemia: What's the real story with the latest Defense Production Act order, the one directed at the meat-processing industry?

* Flynn-sanity:  Will Mike Flynn be pardoned, and if not will recent developments involving the FBI's activities impact his sentence?

* Will the Supreme Court pave the way for judicial enforcement of Congressional subpoenas of Trump business records, or will it instead foreclose that possibility (and much more than that)?

* Hey, look, another judge for the 9/11 case at GTMO!

All that, plus a review of WestWorld episode 7.

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