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17 Mar 2012, 4:43 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Most blogosphericos know Benjamin Wittes as a founding editor of the premiere national security law blogsite, Lawfare (for which I serve as His Serenity, the Book Review Editor). [read post]
7 Jan 2012, 8:29 am by The Book Review Editor
William Shawcross’s widely-noticed new book, Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, asks the following: how does a civilized society bring justice to mass murderers, al Qaeda and its adherents, when it has not already killed them, but holds them captive in its hands? [read post]
1 Jan 2012, 12:54 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) I’ve pointed in the past couple of weeks to ‘must-read’ discussions of the NDAA at the Lawfare blog, by Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, and more recently Steve Vladeck. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 5:13 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Over at Lawfare, Benjamin Wittes and Robert Chesney have put up a FAQs on the NDAA — required reading for everyone dealing with the legislation. [read post]
7 Dec 2011, 11:38 am by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) I’ve been asked the question as to whether the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) permits indefinite detention of US citizens, and whether, if it does, it adds anything to existing law on US citizen detention. [read post]
23 Oct 2011, 11:25 am by Kenneth Anderson
(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]
6 Oct 2011, 8:45 am by Kenneth Anderson
by 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]
6 Oct 2011, 8:39 am by Kenneth Anderson
(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]
1 Sep 2011, 6:26 pm by Benjamin Wittes
(by Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney & Jack Goldsmith) One year ago today, Lawfare published its inaugural post, announcing a new web site devoted to “that nebulous zone in which actions taken or contemplated to protect the nation interact with the nation’s laws and legal institutions. [read post]
9 Jul 2011, 1:14 pm by The Book Review Editor
  Ben Wittes kicked things off in June with a review of Jonathan Hafetz, Habeas Corpus After 9/11. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 3:46 pm by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Ben Wittes (of Lawfare blog, the Brookings Institution, and member of the Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law) has a new book out of Brookings Institution Press, Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor after Guantanamo. [read post]
28 Jan 2011, 3:10 pm by Kenneth Anderson
by Kenneth Anderson OJ's friend and frequent interlocutor, Ben Wittes (of Lawfare blog, the Brookings Institution, and member of the Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law), has a new book out of Brookings Institution Press, Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor after Guantanamo. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 10:46 am by Kenneth Anderson
(Kenneth Anderson) Interest in targeted killing and drone warfare is not letting up in intensity — at least to judge by the pace of events on the topic. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 9:54 am by Kenneth Anderson
by Kenneth Anderson Interest in targeted killing and drone warfare is not letting up in intensity to judge by the pace of events on the topic. [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 5:27 am by Kenneth Anderson
by Kenneth Anderson The excitement over the AQ7 ad put out by Liz Cheney’s organization has died down, but Ben Wittes has this piece up in The New Republic extending the letter that he drafted, and to which I earlier linked, signed by a group of conservative and centrist folks criticizing it. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 6:51 am by Kenneth Anderson
by Kenneth Anderson Politico (linked here to Yahoo) carries a story today on a letter drafted by Benjamin Wittes and signed by a number of conservative and centrists lawyers, former Bush administration officials, and policy analysts on conservative attacks on the role of lawyers in terrorism cases - the so-called Al Qaeda 7 at the Justice Department. [read post]
8 Mar 2010, 5:17 am by Jonathan H. Adler
  A second Politico story, also includes the following signatories: Lee Casey, Bradford Berenson, Kenneth Anderson, John Bellinger III, Philip Zelikow, Kenneth W. [read post]
22 Jan 2010, 4:55 pm by Kenneth Anderson
by Kenneth Anderson 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]
30 Sep 2009, 5:06 am
by Kenneth Anderson Ben Wittes, who has guest-blogged with OJ in the past, has a blistering op-ed in yesterday’s Washington Post, criticizing, well, just about everyone for the failure to take the policy issues of detention to Congress to craft a formal structure for addressing them. [read post]