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10 May 2019, 6:45 am
As Benjamin Wittes quoted me saying, the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation regarding the 2016 campaign fundamentally was not about Donald Trump but was about Russia. [read post]
2 Jun 2019, 11:27 pm
[1]https://www.ted.com/talks/yuval_noah_harari_why_fascism_is_so_tempting_and_how_your_data_could_power_it [2] https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf [3]Benjamin Wittes explains that counterintelligence information, analysis, and conclusions were left within the FBI, rather than handled by the Special Counsel’s office. [read post]
29 Dec 2020, 8:51 am
Four years after four-star general Lloyd J. [read post]
20 Jun 2016, 11:41 am
Traces of uranium discovered by investigators from the International Atomic Energy Agency at a secretive Iranian military base strongly suggest that Tehran pursued a nuclear bomb despite its longstanding denials. [read post]
28 Apr 2018, 12:23 pm
At the beginning of April, commenting on the spate of legislation aimed to protect the special counsel from summary dismissal, Bob Bauer put forward an alternative proposal on Lawfare: Rather than enact a measure to enforce the special counsel rules, Congress might address one of their serious weaknesses: the absence of any requirement that the special counsel report to Congress. [read post]
2 Jun 2017, 8:25 am
” Benjamin Wittes and I have written extensively on the surprising lack of deference shown by the courts to the revised travel ban—a document that at first seemed designed to clear the hurdles faced by the first executive order, which was both more bombastic and less carefully-lawyered. [read post]
29 May 2020, 7:52 am
Benjamin Wittes talked with Kate Klonick, Eugene Volkh, Jack Balkin and Quinta Jurecic about the executive order and what it means. [read post]
2 Jan 2018, 8:00 am
As Benjamin Wittes recently wrote on the subject, “good faith matters. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 1:53 pm
At least 38 civilians were killed and dozens more were injured in a eruption of violence throughout Aleppo. [read post]
3 Jun 2016, 2:22 pm
“For the first time in the two years since the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, proclaimed the existence of an ‘Islamic caliphate’ straddling Syria and Iraq, the jihadi group is at real risk of losing much of the territory it holds. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 1:11 pm
Lawfare’s Susan Hennessey and Ben Wittes outline why this might mean something… or nothing at all. [read post]
29 Mar 2018, 5:00 am
Last month, the National Academies released their report on potential solutions to the problem of law enforcement access to encrypted data. [read post]
20 Sep 2016, 6:36 am
I also have a few thoughts on what Susan Hennessey and Ben Wittes have now added to the debate. [read post]
2 Jun 2016, 12:32 pm
In a “room to room” battle, Al Shabaab attacked the Ambassador Hotel in Mogadishu last night leaving at least 15 people dead and more than 40 others wounded. [read post]
18 Nov 2015, 1:36 pm
The suspected architect behind Friday’s attacks in Paris was reportedly killed in a raid involving over 100 security personnel and lasting more than seven hours. [read post]
7 Sep 2016, 1:19 pm
An alliance of moderate opposition groups has unveiled a detailed transition plan for Syria that commits the country to safeguarding both democratic and religious pluralism. [read post]
1 Jun 2017, 6:43 am
As Ben Wittes observed here, the Ninth Circuit’s hasty analysis “[r]emarkably” breezed past one of the most important statutes at issue in the dispute. [read post]
9 Nov 2015, 11:40 am
After hearing an explosion in the last seconds of the cockpit recording, investigators are “90 percent sure” that a bomb brought down the Russian jetliner that crashed in the Sinai and left all 224 passengers on board dead. [read post]
22 Oct 2021, 7:45 am
While I share many of the concerns about the indictment laid out by Benjamin Wittes in a September Lawfare post, what caught my eye in Sussmann’s motion has relatively little to do with its merits. [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 5:23 am
Benjamin Wittes and Quinta Jurecic have usefully reviewed the models that Special Counsel Robert Mueller might draw on deciding whether and how to tell the world what he learned in his investigation of the Russia matter. [read post]
