Episode 120: Bran, Bron, What’s the Difference? - a podcast by Bobby Chesney and Steve Vladeck

And we're back!  Tune in as Professors Chesney and Vladeck discuss and debate the latest national security legal news, including:



* The legal framework for Congressional subpoenas (and the problems that arise when the Executive Branch is not inclined to support prosecutions to enforce criminal contempt)

* The policy and legal issues raised by an Israeli airstrike on a Hamas facility associated with cyber operations, which occurred in the midst of a massive exchange of rockets, missile, mortars, and more

* A conviction in a material-support-to-IS case in which the support consisted of online recruiting, which raises interesting questions from a First Amendment perspective

* An arrest in a bizarre case in which a contractor engaged in translating wiretaps of a terrorism suspect tried to hide the fact that the suspect was recorded calling, well, the translator

* A guilty plea for a former CIA officer who was recruited by Chinese intelligence through financial inducements



Ah, but all that is just the appetizer.  Game of Thrones Episode 4 ran on Sunday night, and these guys are not happy about how it went...

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