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17 Dec 2016, 8:04 am
Tillerson also featured prominently in this week’s episode of Rational Security, in which the crew brought on special guest Thomas Rid to talk about the DNC hack: Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes argued that, given Tillerson’s close connections with Russia, his nomination is deeply disturbing in context of Trump’s unwillingness to take seriously the intelligence community’s reports of Russian meddling in the presidential election. [read post]
16 Dec 2016, 8:48 am
ICYMI: Yesterday, on Lawfare Benjamin Wittes posted Rational Security, the “RexSec” Edition. [read post]
13 Dec 2016, 11:43 am
Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes argued that the appointment of Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State would do little to deter Russian aggression. [read post]
10 Dec 2016, 6:42 am
Benjamin Wittes provided his thoughts on the report, and Chris Mirasola and Helen Klein Murillo gave us a detailed summary of the document itself. [read post]
7 Dec 2016, 4:30 pm
It is unclear whether he has spoken more specifically on the matter since then.Klein maintains a stem cell advocacy group, Americans for Cures, which has an active web site and an impressive list of scientific advisors, including Irv Weissman of Stanford, Rusty Gage of the Salk Institute and Owen Witte of UCLA.Klein's 2004 stem cell campaign cost $34 million to convince California voters that the state needed to begin its own human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research effort in the wake… [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 12:45 pm
Benjamin Wittes uploaded the White House’s “Report on the Legal and Policy Frameworks Guiding the United States' Use of Military Force and Related National Security Operations” and provided some initial analysis. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 12:00 pm
” Both Wittes and the UNAHDR agree that this situation is unsustainable. [read post]
4 Dec 2016, 9:30 pm
John Witte, Jr., Sara McDougall, Anna di Robilant, 349-66 (Robbins Collection 2016): During the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, the English Court of Requests played a substantial role within the sphere of the parallel and competing jurisdictions of the Westminster courts. [read post]
3 Dec 2016, 10:30 am
While the news has been somewhat drowned out amidst the hubbub of the presidential transition, the significance of this change in legal interpretation shouldn't be lost—so we brought Bobby and Charlie Savage on the podcast to talk with Benjamin Wittes about where this change came from and what it might mean. [read post]
3 Dec 2016, 7:00 am
Benjamin Wittes offered a defense of libertarian panic as a response to the Trump administration. [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 11:37 am
Benjamin Wittes responded to Jack Goldsmith’s essay on “libertarian panic” with a defense of his own panic over Trump. [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 8:01 am
The committee, chaired by Yale Law Professor John Witt, established a set of principles to guide discussions about renaming. [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 9:30 pm
” John Witte, Jr., an editor of the volume, said, “[W]e owe our greatest thanks to Professor Donahue for his brilliant scholarship, teaching, and mentorship, for his generous humanity, fidelity, and integrity, and for the sterling example he offers to all of us of a gentleman’s scholarly life lived well. [read post]
30 Nov 2016, 11:46 am
Benjamin Wittes shared journalist Jonathan Rauch’s query for input from Lawfare readers concerning how to identify when the Trump administration has crossed key red lines protecting liberal-democratic norms. [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 12:56 pm
Syrian government forces have maintained pressure on rebel fighters in Aleppo following the regime’s victory in a major operation yesterday, Reuters reports. [read post]
27 Nov 2016, 4:00 am
Legal historian John Fabian Witt and law and econ scholar Eric Talley collaborated with me on a post In disturbing new study, Economists find that History is Inefficient. [read post]
26 Nov 2016, 10:30 am
Last Monday, Madeleine Albright, Tamara Cofman Wittes, Stephen Hadley, and Amr Hamzawy sat down at the Brookings Institution to discuss Tamara Wittes's new Brookings report on “Real Security: Governance and Stability in the Arab World,” which was commissioned by the Atlantic Council’s Middle East Strategy Task Force. [read post]
26 Nov 2016, 7:00 am
On that note, Benjamin Wittes pondered the relative morality of serving in a Trump administration for career officials, those considering taking a job, and possible political appointees. [read post]
23 Nov 2016, 8:01 am
Ben Wittes responded to letters from DOJ lawyers and fresh recruits on serving under a Trump administration. [read post]
21 Nov 2016, 8:55 am
Monday, November 21st at 3pm: The Brookings Institution will host an event on Real Security: Governance and Stability in the Arab World, featuring a panel discussion with Madeleine Albright, Amr Hamzawy, and Tamara Cofman Wittes. [read post]
