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 Technologi...
Aug 20, 2020•24 min
This episode references: The President’s Executive Order on Hong Kong Normalization, July 14, 2020 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/presidents-executive-order-hong-kong-normalization/ Executive Order on Addressing the Threat Posed by TikTok, August 6, 2020 https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-addressing-threat-posed-tiktok/ Cybersecurity Law of the People’s Republic of China (Translated) https://www.newamerica.org/cybersecurity-initiative/digichina/blog/...
Aug 13, 2020•44 min
Global Health Security Agenda https://www.cdc.gov/globalhealth/security/index.htm Open Skies Treaty https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/openskies DOD Statement on Open Skies Treaty Withdrawal on May 21, 2020 https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2195239/dod-statement-on-open-skies-treaty-withdrawal/ State Department Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation https://www.state.gov/bureaus-offices/under-secretary-for-arms-control-and-international-security-affairs...
Aug 06, 2020•31 min
This episode references: Full "Hacking Democracy: Elections and Beyond" recording, sign in required https://beacon360.content.online/xbcs/S1251/catalog/resources.xhtml?pSref=2020ANNW1OLC Supplemental reading materials for "Hacking Democracy: Elections and Beyond" https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/law_national_security/hacking-democracy-toc.pdf
Jul 30, 2020•20 min
This episode references: UN Security Council Resolution 1325, Adopted October 31, 2000https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N00/720/18/PDF/N0072018.pdf?OpenElement Women, Peace, and Security Act of 2017https://www.congress.gov/115/plaws/publ68/PLAW-115publ68.pdf United States Strategy on Women, Peace, and Securityhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/WPS-Strategy-FINAL-PDF-6.11.19.pdf Implementation of the Strategy from the Department of Statehttps://www.state.gov/the-dep...
Jul 23, 2020•37 min
This episode references: The Rome Statute https://www.icc-cpi.int/resource-library/documents/rs-eng.pdf 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/ NSLT Episode "Will the Dollar be Disarmed? with Brian Egan." September 19, 2019 https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/nslt/20190919-w...
Jul 16, 2020•49 min
This episode references: Social Media and National Security Part II with Peter Singer and Rachel Levinson-Waldman https://www.americanbar.org/groups/law_national_security/nslt/20190131-social-media-and-national-security-part2/ Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-preventing-online-censorship/ Section 230 — Nurturing Innovation or Fostering Unaccountability? Key Takeaways and Discussions https://www.justice.gov/file/128633...
Jul 09, 2020•29 min
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/...
Jul 02, 2020•17 min
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...
Jun 25, 2020•30 min
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, ...
Jun 18, 2020•31 min
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/...
Jun 11, 2020•31 min
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” –...
Jun 05, 2020•1 hr 4 min
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-ge...
May 28, 2020•33 min
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/120...
May 21, 2020•41 min
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-10...
May 14, 2020•44 min
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 ...
May 07, 2020•47 min
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/spa...
Apr 30, 2020•54 min
The black letter law and articles referenced in this episode: Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol by William Rosenau https://www.amazon.com/Tonight-Bombed-U-S-Capitol-Explosive/dp/1501170120 Audiobook for Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tonight-We-Bombed-The-U-S-Capitol/William-Rosenau/9781797105987 The Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/subcommittees/subcommittee-on-crime-and-terrorism The original FBI Joint...
Apr 23, 2020•41 min
The black letter law and articles referenced in this episode are: Report of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service https://inspire2serve.gov/reports Inspire To Serve Act https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/hr6415/BILLS-116hr6415ih.pdf Inspire to Serve Act Summary https://inspire2serve.gov/sites/default/files/final-report/Legislative%20Annex%20Summary.pdf Volunteer Protection Act https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-105publ19/pdf/PLAW-105publ19.pdf Public Readiness a...
Apr 16, 2020•47 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode are: The Defense Production Act [PDF] https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1650-20490-5258/final__defense_production_act_091030.pdf James E. Baker “It’s High Time We Fought This Virus the American Way” New York Times, April 3, 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/03/opinion/defense-protection-act-covid.html Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer 343 US 579 (1952) https://www.oyez.org/cases/1940-1955/343us579 Executive Order on ...
Apr 09, 2020•49 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode are: Saenz v. Roe 526 US 489 (1999) https://www.oyez.org/cases/1998/98-97 Pollack v. Duff 958 F. Supp. 2d 280 (D.D.C. 2013) https://casetext.com/case/pollack-v-duff-1 United States v. Guest 383 US 745 (1966) https://www.oyez.org/cases/1965/65 Shapiro v. Thompson 394 US 618 (1969) https://www.oyez.org/cases/1967/9 CRS Report: “The Posse Comitatus Act and Related Matters: A Sketch” November, 2018 https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42669.pdf Mapp v. Oh...
Apr 02, 2020•36 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode are: William Banks and Stephen Dycus, "Martial Law Would Sweep the Country Into a Great Legal Unknown" The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/martial-law-would-sweep-country-great-legal-unknown/608773/ The Stafford Act https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/1582133514823-be4368438bd042e3b60f5cec6b377d17/Stafford_June_2019_508.pdf Public Health Services Act (42 USC Section 201 et seq) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/US...
Mar 26, 2020•40 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode are: The Cyberspace Solarium Commission Report https://www.solarium.gov/home Wired, "White House Cuts Critical Cybersecurity Role as Threats Loom" May 15, 2018 https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-cybersecurity-coordinator/ DHS CISA Vulnerability Disclosure Policy Draft Directive https://cyber.dhs.gov/bod/20-01/ NSLT Episode "Threats, Norms and Cyber Mercenaries with Tim Maurer" https://soundcloud.com/nsltoday/threats-norms-and-cyber-mercenari...
Mar 19, 2020•45 min
The black letter law and articles referenced in this episode are: U.S. Vulnerabilities Equities Process https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/images/External%20-%20Unclassified%20VEP%20Charter%20FINAL.PDF Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Study of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Detention and Interrogation Program https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/publications/CRPT-113srpt288.pdf Greg Miller, “How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on c...
Mar 12, 2020•35 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode are: Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos https://www.amazon.com/Trump-His-Generals-Cost-Chaos/dp/0525522417 General Mattis’ Letter of Resignation https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5656065-Resignation-Letter-From-Defense-Secretary-James.html The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda https://www.amazon.com/Longest-War-Enduring-Conflict-Al-Qaeda/dp/0743278941 Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 ...
Mar 05, 2020•28 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode are: 2001 AUMF https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ40/PLAW-107publ40.pdf 2002 AUMF https://www.congress.gov/107/plaws/publ243/PLAW-107publ243.pdf NATO Article 5 https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm Text of Secretary Colin Powell’s speech to the UN in 2003 on Iraqi WMDs https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/feb/05/iraq.usa Video of speech https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4716794/user-clip-colin-powells-speech U.S. Defense Departm...
Feb 27, 2020•19 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode are: U.S. Air Force JAG Corps https://www.airforce.com/careers/specialty-careers/jag/overview U.S. Army JAG Corps https://www.goarmy.com/jag.html U.S. Coast Guard JAG Corps https://www.uscg.mil/resources/legal/ U.S. Marine JAG Corps https://www.marines.com/becoming-a-marine/officer/marine-corps-law-program.html U.S. Navy JAG Corps https://www.jag.navy.mil/ “You Can’t Handle the Truth” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FnO3igOkOk Julie Huygen recen...
Feb 20, 2020•31 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode are: The DOJ Inspector General Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation Introduction https://oig.justice.gov/press/2019/2019-12-09.pdf The full OIG Review https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf Politico “Russia’s Long and Mostly Unsuccessful History of Election Interference” https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/26/russias-long-and-mostly-unsuccessful-history-of-el...
Feb 13, 2020•24 min
The black letter laws and articles referenced in this episode: U.S. Treasury Department’s new CIFUS regulations after FIRRMA https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/international/the-committee-on-foreign-investment-in-the-united-states-cfius Executive Order 13549 “Classified National Security Information Programs for State, Local, Tribal, and Private Sector Entities” https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/08/18/executive-order-13549-classified-national-security-information-pr...
Feb 06, 2020•30 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode are: The DOJ Inspector General Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation Introduction https://oig.justice.gov/press/2019/2019-12-09.pdf The full OIG Review https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf FBI Director Christopher Wray’s response to the OIG Report https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-director-christopher-wray-response-to-inspector-general-report The reda...
Jan 30, 2020•27 min
