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6 Oct 2011, 8:39 am
(Kenneth Anderson) Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes have been arguing for several days now at the Lawfare blog that the Obama administration should release either the Justice Department opinion approving the Al-Awlaki attack, suitably redacted, or some statement that puts out in some detail its legal reasoning. [read post]
17 Feb 2012, 7:17 am
Over at Lawfare, Benjamin Wittes found my op-ed in yesterday’s New York Times, on Obama’s double-take on the nature of our current war era, to be “perplexing. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 3:46 pm
” — from the Introduction Benjamin Wittes issues a persuasive call for greater coherence, clarity, and public candor from the American government regarding its detention policy and practices, and greater citizen awareness of the same. [read post]
7 Jul 2018, 5:16 am
And Benjamin Wittes reflected on the constitutional status of pretext and “duh! [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 9:31 pm
Avner Gidron, senior policy adviser with Amnesty International, responds to my discussion of Amnesty’s new report on drone strikes in Pakistan: Perhaps it is not surprising that Benjamin Wittes disagrees with Amnesty International’s assessment of the lawfulness of particular US drone strikes in Pakistan. [read post]
21 Mar 2019, 1:21 pm
Mieke Eoyang, Ben Freeman, Ryan Pougiales and Benjamin Wittes shared the latest data from their series on public confidence in government on national security issues. [read post]
19 Mar 2021, 9:50 am
Cardozo School of Law, will join Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare editor-in-chief, to discuss qualified immunity, a judicial doctrine that shields those in law enforcement from being held personally responsible for constitutional violations. [read post]
23 Oct 2011, 11:25 am
(Kenneth Anderson) Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare has been keeping a running track of factual difficulties in Times editorials over the last year dealing with Guantanamo detention and other terrorism related issues. [read post]
27 Jul 2019, 4:56 am
On Friday, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes shared the second episode of The Report, Lawfare’s podcast series telling the story contained in Robert Mueller’s 448-page report. [read post]
16 Feb 2019, 6:43 am
Scott Anderson and Benjamin Wittes questioned the data cited by Trump as proof of a border crisis, sharing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request they filed in search of the data described in Trump’s rambling. [read post]
15 Dec 2018, 7:00 am
And Benjamin Wittes flagged that a generous Lawfare donor has offered to match donations of up to $5,000. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 5:13 am
Yesterday's panel discussion that I moderated with Slate's Dahlia Lithwick, Legal Times' Tony Mauro, and the Brookings Institution's Benjamin Wittes, was a journalism-centric kickoff to today's First Amendment address by Chief Justice John Roberts here at Syracuse University. [read post]
17 Jan 2012, 1:11 pm
By Benjamin Wittes & Ritika Singh The Commission then takes up defense motion AE016, which objects to government monitoring of defense computers for purposes of cybersecurity. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 6:22 pm
Anyone doing serious work on detention, Guantanamo, war on terror, any of these areas, will want to read an extraordinary new study just out from the Brookings Institution by Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, and Rabea Benhalim, The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking. [read post]
1 Apr 2011, 12:19 pm
(Randy Barnett) In addition to the new article by Jim Lindgren blogged about below, Larry Solum has the scoop today on new articles by Michael Dorf (Cornell) on A Theory of the Constitution, Mark Tushnet (Harvard Law School) on Taking the Law Away from the Courts, Benjamin Wittes (Brookings Institution) on Defamation and Treason in the Early Republic, Heather Gerken (Yale University — Law School) on Concurring by Nondecision, and Richard Posner (United States Court of Appeal… [read post]
3 Nov 2018, 11:10 am
Anderson and Benjamin Wittes dug into the Justice Department’s take on birthright citizenship by filing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests on records related to the matter. [read post]
10 May 2020, 1:00 pm
"Unmaking the Presidency: Donald Trump's War on the World's Most Powerful Office," by Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey, which is excerpted in this episode, situates Trump era scandals and outrages in the deeper context of the presidency itself. [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 2:01 am
" Benjamin Wittes sat down with them to discuss the article, the history of the federal-state relationship in law enforcement, how the feds came to play an oversight role with respect to police departments, the limits of that role inherent in the cooperative relationship that law enforcement agencies engage in for other reasons, the role that the feds might play under new legislation and the role that state governments may play as well. [read post]
10 May 2019, 10:08 am
On May 10, the Brookings Institution hosted a public conversation between former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker, who is now the Director for National Security and Cybersecurity at the R Street Institute, and Brookings Senior Fellow Benjamin Wittes. [read post]
10 Jul 2020, 2:01 am
To discuss it all, Benjamin Wittes spoke with Lawfare's Margaret Taylor, Scott Anderson, Quinta Jurecic and Molly Reynolds. [read post]
