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21 Aug 2019, 5:00 am by Matthew Waxman
In the course of researching a book, I’ve come across many episodes that Benjamin Wittes and I like to call “Weird War Powers $h*t. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 10:59 am by Wenqing Zhao, David Stanton
Tech Trade Spat Cools Off Slightly … For Now Tensions over China’s technology trade policies appeared to cool off last week after President Xi Jinping promised thorough economic liberalization in a speech at the annual Boao Forum for Asia, a China-led conference promoted by state media and others as the “Asian Davos. [read post]
26 Sep 2016, 8:46 am by Quinta Jurecic
Wednesday, September 28th at 5pm: At the Hoover Book Soiree, Lawfare's Benjamin Wittes will interview Rosa Brooks on her new book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pentagon. [read post]
9 Jun 2016, 11:36 am by Rishabh Bhandari, David Hopen
The Washington Post tells us that after two Palestinian attackers gunned down four Israelis last night in a crowded Tel Aviv market, Israel has deployed more troops to the West Bank and frozen 83,000 permits for Palestinians to enter Israel. [read post]
” Sedition is a serious charge, but a number of analysts (including Lawfare’s Benjamin Wittes) have raised the possibility that certain conduct related to yesterday’s debacle might meet the terms of the statute. [read post]
13 May 2016, 12:54 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Hezbollah’s top military command was killed in a “major explosion” at Damascus airport. [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 11:03 am by Rishabh Bhandari, Cody M. Poplin
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi won’t be leaving Washington empty-handed. [read post]
9 Mar 2018, 4:00 am by Justin Florence, Ben Berwick
Late last year, in an interview with The New York Times, President Trump declared that he has the “absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department. [read post]
16 Jun 2016, 12:00 pm by Rishabh Bhandari, David Hopen
Lawfare’s Ben Wittes said in May that Twitter should prevail in that case because the causal link between the company’s alleged support for the extremists and the attack is tenuous. [read post]
26 Jul 2016, 11:37 am by Rishabh Bhandari, David Hopen
The Kremlin has denied accusations that it hacked the Democratic National Committee’s emails in order to interfere with the U.S. presidential election in favor of Republican nominee Donald Trump, dismissing the allegations as “an old trick” and a “maniacal attemp[t] to exploit the Russian theme in the U.S. election campaign. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 1:27 pm by Rishabh Bhandari
The New York Times writes that a 90-minute meeting between President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to broker a ceasefire in Syria’s ongoing civil war. [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 6:20 am by Jack Goldsmith, Susan Hennessey
Instead, Trump has, as our colleague Benjamin Wittes predicted long ago, focused those energies on trying to manipulate Justice Department law enforcement practices, where the fabric of regulation guaranteeing independence from political manipulation is much less dense. [read post]
29 May 2018, 12:00 pm by Josh Blackman
My colleague Benjamin Wittes tweeted that Conway faulted the Federalist Society for “its silence in the face of the violation of everything it stands for. [read post]
17 Jun 2016, 12:15 pm by Rishabh Bhandari, Cody M. Poplin
New details about Omar Mateen capture a life of violent outbursts that culminated in the tragedy of Orlando. [read post]
13 Dec 2015, 9:32 pm by Cody M. Poplin
Barkey will moderate a conversation with Michael Koplow, Yoram Peri, and Tamara Wittes. [read post]
25 Jan 2018, 6:00 am by Russell Spivak
On Jan. 11, the Center for Constitutional Rights petitioned the federal district court for the District of Columbia for an order granting the writ of habeas corpus on behalf of 11 Guantanamo Bay detainees—Tofiq Nasser Awad al-Bihani, Sharqawi al-Hajj, Sanad al-Kazimi, Suhail Sharabi, Said Nashir, Abdul Rabbani, Ahmed Rabbani, Abdu Latif Nasser, Abdul Razak, Abdul Malik, and Abu Zubaydah—all of whom “have all been detained at Guantánamo without charge or trial, many of them… [read post]
6 Mar 2016, 9:20 pm by Cody M. Poplin
Hoover working group member and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Benjamin Wittes interviews former CIA director General Michael Hayden on his book Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror. [read post]
1 Mar 2016, 2:36 pm by Alex R. McQuade
Lawfare’s Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes had some questions of their own for Apple and provided a link to the hearing. [read post]
15 Mar 2017, 11:33 am by Jordan Brunner
The Washington Post informs us that the Justice Department has issued indictments for two Russian FSB officers and two criminal hackers for the theft of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014. [read post]