Summary: 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:<br> <br> * 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.<br> * Pandemia: What’s the real story with the latest Defense Production Act order, the one directed at the meat-processing industry?<br> * Flynn-sanity: Will Mike Flynn be pardoned, and if not will recent developments involving the FBI’s activities impact his sentence?<br> * 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)?<br> * Hey, look, another judge for the 9/11 case at GTMO!<br> <br> All that, plus a review of WestWorld episode 7.<br>
