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12 Dec 2019, 12:04 pm
The OIG report, as Benjamin Wittes has observed, concluded that the probe itself was justifiably predicated on clear evidence provided by a “friendly foreign government” (apparently Australia) of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, based on comments made to an official from that government by another ex-Trump aide, George Papadopoulos, who mentioned that the Russians were inviting Trump campaign assistance. [read post]
28 Oct 2020, 8:38 am
Editor’s Note: Lawfare is not a public health law site, and normally, we would not run a piece on food and drug law and the authority of the FDA. [read post]
2 Sep 2018, 7:00 am
Editor’s Note: Fighting terrorism online is one of those ideas that everyone agrees with in principle but disagrees on in practice. [read post]
20 Jan 2019, 7:00 am
The crux of this tension between foreign sponsors and local allies is a classic asymmetry of interests and priorities, further outlined by Karlin and Tamara Cofman Wittes. [read post]
29 Apr 2016, 2:09 pm
Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford faced some skepticism on Capitol Hill as they attempted to make the case that President Obama’s strategy in Iraq and Syria is making headway against the Islamic State. [read post]
26 Feb 2021, 8:47 am
Yet as Benjamin Wittes and Steve Vladeck explored in an earlier Lawfare post, this broad scope isn’t necessarily all-encompassing. [read post]
17 Aug 2015, 11:53 am
INTRODUCTION “Legal, ethical, and wise”: these are the three adjectives that the Obama administration has used again and again to describe its program of conducting targeted killings by drone strikes. [read post]
16 Feb 2018, 7:55 pm
” Matt Tait and Benjamin Wittes sat down with David Kris and Paul Rosenzweig, earlier this evening, to discuss the indictment on the Lawfare Podcast: In this post, we offer an analysis of the document itself and what inferences are reasonable to draw from it. [read post]
8 Apr 2016, 12:48 pm
Islamic State fighters abducted at least 170 workers from a cement factory this week. [read post]
26 May 2016, 2:50 pm
The war against the Islamic State continues along both ends of the Euphrates, targeting two of the pseudo-caliphate’s strongholds. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 7:00 am
But Benjamin Wittes has asked me to report back on my conversations with people, to take pictures of the things I see, and to try to give Lawfare readers a flavor of what is happening in this country on the front lines of Vladimir Putin’s confrontation with the United States and Europe. [read post]
15 Nov 2017, 8:09 am
Last Thursday, the conference committee for the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2018 filed its report reconciling the differences between the House and Senate versions of the legislation adopted earlier this year, completing one of the final steps in the NDAA process. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 8:53 am
Here at Lawfare, Benjamin Wittes and Zoe Bedell discussed Force when the lawsuit was first filed in 2016 and explained how it might succeed even when others like it had failed. [read post]
4 Jan 2019, 6:20 am
Daniel Hemel and Eric Posner have harshly criticized William Barr’s memo on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s obstruction of justice theory. [read post]
27 Jul 2015, 4:00 am
Guantanamo Diary By Mohamedou Ould Slahi (edited by Larry Siems) Published by Hatchette Book Group (2015) Reviewed by Zoe Bedell It's rare that quotes on the back of a book tell you anything genuinely useful about the book, but the blurbs for Guantánamo Diary are, in fact, remarkably revealing. [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 12:22 pm
In the fight against the Islamic State, it appears that the United States and Iran are impeding one another. [read post]
30 Oct 2017, 3:00 am
Benjamin Wittes will interview Landau. [read post]
30 Aug 2018, 12:13 pm
Thus it omits writings that may be relevant to Kavanaugh’s views on the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which both Benjamin Wittes and Steve Vladeck have discussed. [read post]
1 Sep 2017, 10:30 am
And this week, Benjamin Wittes and I argued a formal inquiry is now warranted. [read post]
31 Oct 2018, 2:12 pm
As Benjamin Wittes has flagged, on Oct. 31 the National Archives released the Watergate “Road Map” produced by the office of Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski and sent to Congress as a referral for the impeachment of President Richard Nixon. [read post]
