The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode: 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference Registration https://shop.americanbar.org/ebus/ABAEventsCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?productId=338390074 House Committee on Financial Services Hearing “Virtual Currency: Financial Innovation and National Security Implications” June 8, 2017 https://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=401938 Documentary: Banking on Bitcoin https://www.netflix.com/...
Oct 04, 2018•24 min
This episode of National Security Law Today references: The 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference https://shop.americanbar.org/ebus/ABAEventsCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?productId=338390074 Raj De’s episode of National Security Law Today https://soundcloud.com/nsltoday/introducing-national-security-law-today Cybersecurity Wake Up Call: The Business You Save May Be Your Own at the ABA Annual Meeting https://players.brightcove.net/pages/v1/index.html?accountId=186668040...
Sep 27, 2018•20 min
The articles and links for this episode are: The 28th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law Conference https://shop.americanbar.org/ebus/ABAEventsCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?productId=338390074 Senate Intelligence Committee Hearing on Foreign Influence and Social Media https://www.c-span.org/video/?450990-1/foreign-influence-social-media Report of the Attorney General’s Cyber Digital Task Force https://www.justice.gov/ag/page/file/1076696/download Reality Winner was sentenced for le...
Sep 20, 2018•24 min
The black letter law and articles on this topic are: DNI report on Russian threats: Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/155494946443/odni-statement-on-declassified-intelligence The Justice Department Indictment of thirteen Russian individuals for political interference https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-thirteen-russian-individuals-and-three-russian-companies-scheme-interfere The Hamilton 68 bot tracking site ht...
Sep 13, 2018•52 min
The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode are: Maersk using a polar shipping route https://www.npr.org/2018/08/22/640679831/worlds-largest-shipping-company-heads-into-arctic-as-global-warming-opens-the-wa?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr The Antarctic Treaty https://www.state.gov/t/avc/trty/193967.htm UN Convention on the Law of the Sea http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm NASA data on summer ice melt https://www.nas...
Sep 06, 2018•34 min
The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode are: “Securing the Modern Economy: Transforming Cybersecurity Through Sustainability.” https://www.publicknowledge.org/assets/uploads/documents/Securing_the_Modern_Economy--Transforming_Cybersecurity_Through_Sustainability_FINAL_4.18.18_PK.pdf The Office of Technology Assessment https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/ Attorney General’s Cyber Digital Task Force Report https://www.justice.gov/ag/page/file/1076696/download Deputy Attorney General...
Aug 30, 2018•28 min
The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode are: “Securing the Modern Economy: Transforming Cybersecurity Through Sustainability.” https://www.publicknowledge.org/assets/uploads/documents/Securing_the_Modern_Economy--Transforming_Cybersecurity_Through_Sustainability_FINAL_4.18.18_PK.pdf Director of National Intelligence’s Worldwide Threat Assessment. February 2018 https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Testimonies/2018-ATA---Unclassified-SSCI.pdf Major cyber breaches includ...
Aug 23, 2018•36 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode are: United nations General Assembly, Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment of Punishment, G.A. Res. 39/46, December 10, 1984, https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/cat.aspx Torture Victim Protection Act 0f 1991, Pub. L. no. 102-256, 106 Stat. 73, (codified as amended in 28 U.S.C. § 1350, https://www.congress.gov/bill/102nd-congress/house-bill/2092/text George Tenant, At the Center of the Storm; ...
Aug 16, 2018•26 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode are: United Nations General Assembly, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, December 10, 1948, http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ United Nations General Assembly, International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, G.A. Res 2106, December 21, 1965, https://www.ohchr.org/en/professionalinterest/pages/cerd.aspx United Nations General Assembly, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discri...
Aug 09, 2018•23 min
Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat is Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling. https://www.cov.com/en/professionals/e/stuart-eizenstat His book President Carter: The White House Years is available online https://www.amazon.com/President-Carter-White-House-Years/dp/1250104556 For readings from the panel Attacks on the Institutions of Democracy at the ABA Annual Meeting, visit ambar.org/democraticattacks
Aug 02, 2018•38 min
The black letter law and articles on this topic: Countering Adversary Threats to Democratic Institutions https://www.csis.org/analysis/countering-adversary-threats-democratic-institutions “Don’t Overlook the Kremlin’s Threats to Our Courts” Suzanne Spaulding in the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-overlook-the-kremlins-threats-to-our-courts/2017/10/30/f1e656aa-bd8e-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3f66ceb72ff0 Twin Falls Idaho case https:/...
Jul 26, 2018•24 min
The black letter law and articles on this topic: Countering Adversary Threats to Democratic Institutions https://www.csis.org/analysis/countering-adversary-threats-democratic-institutions “Don’t Overlook the Kremlin’s Threats to Our Courts” Suzanne Spaulding in the Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dont-overlook-the-kremlins-threats-to-our-courts/2017/10/30/f1e656aa-bd8e-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.3f66ceb72ff0 The 2016 “Lisa Case” https://...
Jul 19, 2018•22 min
The black letter law and articles in this episode: Frances Hoang’s op-ed “An Immigrant’s Tale” (Wall Street Journal) https://www.wsj.com/articles/an-immigrants-tale-from-saigon-in-75-to-american-entrepreneur-1429743611 Department of Justice announced denaturalization proceedings against a man convicted of terrorism offenses https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-files-denaturalization-lawsuit-against-chicago-man-convicted-providing The American evacuation of Saigon in 1975 http://www....
Jul 12, 2018•23 min
The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode: Apple’s Supplier Responsibility 2018 Progress Report https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/pdf/Apple_SR_2018_Progress_Report.pdf House Energy and Commerce Hearing on Telecommunications, Global Competitiveness and National Security (May 16, 2018) https://energycommerce.house.gov/hearings/telecommunications-global-competitiveness-and-national-security/ House Energy and Commerce Hearing on the Internet of Things, Manufacturing and...
Jul 05, 2018•37 min
The black letter law and articles on this topic: Jack Rives’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee (August 2, 2006) as TJAG https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/rives_testimony_08_02_06.pdf Declassified memos from military lawyers, including Jack Rives, criticized interrogations techniques https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/28/politics/militarys-opposition-to-harsh-interrogation-is-outlined.html Military Commissions Act of 2006 https://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/PL-109-366...
Jun 28, 2018•30 min
The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode: John Bolton gets rid of the “cyber czar” position in the NSC on Lawfare https://www.lawfareblog.com/boltons-magnificent-idea-nix-white-house-cyber-czar Cyber czar removal article on Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/05/trump-closes-job-opening-for-cyber-czar-raising-protests-from-congress/ Senator King and Senator Lankford question the intelligence community on cyber preparedness http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...
Jun 21, 2018•31 min
Mary McCord in Foreign Policy “The Law Should Treat Domestic Terror as the Equivalent of International Terror” http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/22/the-law-should-treat-domestic-terror-as-the-equivalent-of-international-terror/ Terrorism Definitions https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2331 Material Support Statute(s) https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339A https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2339B List of Foreign Terrorist Organizations https://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/...
Jun 14, 2018•33 min
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 I...
Jun 07, 2018•27 min
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 Commit...
May 31, 2018•28 min
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 ...
May 24, 2018•35 min
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 Nat...
May 17, 2018•25 min
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-...
May 10, 2018•18 min
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/reso...
May 03, 2018•21 min
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 Ob...
Apr 26, 2018•32 min
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 Sensin...
Apr 19, 2018•32 min
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 Gover...
Apr 12, 2018•33 min
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 Abdul...
Apr 05, 2018•36 min
The black letter law and articles discussed in this episode: AI outpaces lawyers in reading contracts https://www.artificialintelligence-news.com/2018/03/19/ai-outpaces-lawyers-in-reviewing-legal-documents-new-study-finds/ The problems with using AI to set parole https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/us/politics/sent-to-prison-by-a-software-programs-secret-algorithms.html Can AI be taught to explain itself? https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/magazine/can-ai-be-taught-to-explain-itself.html Whole of...
Mar 29, 2018•34 min
Our regular podcasting schedule was interrupted by Winter Storm Toby this week. Please enjoy this rebroadcast of our conversation with Lindsay Rodman on national security in the Arctic. The black letter law discussed in this episode is: The Antarctic Treaty https://www.state.gov/t/avc/trty/193967.htm UN Convention on the Law of the Sea http://www.un.org/depts/los/convention_agreements/convention_overview_convention.htm NASA data on summer ice melt https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/end-of...
Mar 22, 2018•32 min
The ABA resources and events discussed in this episode are: The U.S Intelligence Community Law Sourcebook, 2017 Edition https://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/Store/ProductDetails.aspx?productId=254096631 The Sourcebook of Public-Private Partnerships for Security and Resilience https://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/Store/ProductDetails.aspx?productId=286274864 The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook: A Resource for Attorneys, Law Firms, and Business Professionals, Second Edition https://shop.americanbar.org/eBus/...
Mar 15, 2018•15 min
