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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]
8 Aug 2011, 5:12 pm by Benjamin Wittes
Paul Starobin, whose New York Times piece this weekend was the subject of these earlier thoughts, writes in with the following response: I agree with Benjamin Wittes that there is an important, even a vital, distinction between being a lawyer in academia and being a lawyer in government with a client interest. [read post]
21 Jul 2011, 8:48 am by Benjamin Wittes
Both Alex Koppelman and Benjamin Wittes must now live with themselves, knowing their misrepresentations of the Scott Horton article are being used by the government to deny the parents of the dead former Guantanamo prisoners any justice in American courts. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 1:35 pm by Kent Scheidegger
Benjamin Wittes has this post at Lawfare, a national security blog:I am not sure how I stumbled into the role of unpaid fact-checker for the New York Times editorial page on matters of law and security. [read post]
16 Jul 2011, 2:04 pm by Robert Chesney
( A joint response from Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney) On Thursday we criticized a piece by Thomas Joscelyn at The Weekly Standard concerning Matt Olsen and the GTMO Review Task Force, in which Joscelyn called into question the task force’s decision to recommend transfers for persons whom an earlier military-screening process had determined to be dangerous (see Ben’s post here, and Bobby’s here). [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]
8 Jul 2011, 5:44 am by Benjamin Wittes
” Wheeler, for her part, opens: “I wrote a snippy post yesterday attacking Benjamin Wittes’ claim that we’ve had a public debate about drones. [read post]
7 Jul 2011, 5:11 am by Benjamin Wittes
Wheeler posted: While I often disagree with Benjamin Wittes, I rarely think the stuff he writes is sheer nonsense. [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 3:25 pm by Christa Culver
This edition of “Petitions to watch” features cases up for consideration at the Justices’ June 23 Conference. [read post]
19 Jun 2011, 2:12 pm
(The difficulties of repatriating the Yemeni detainees, many of whom are subject to such conditional release, is ably discussed here in Benjamin Wittes' House committee testimony on the situation in Yemen). [read post]
23 May 2011, 11:14 pm by Dwight Sullivan
In recent days, Horton’s article and the American Society of Magazine Editors’ award have been criticized by my CAAFlog colleague Cully Stimson, First Thing’s Joe Carter (here and here), and the Brookings Institution’s Benjamin Wittes. [read post]
18 May 2011, 11:58 am by Amanda Frost
Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney, and Larkin Reynolds shed further light on these questions in their recent Brookings publication entitled The Emerging Law of Detention:  The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking 2.0. [read post]
18 May 2011, 8:48 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Benjamin Wittes (Lawfare) reviews the Washington Post and New York Times editorials about Rep. [read post]
13 May 2011, 5:14 am by Lawrence Solum
Benjamin Wittes (Brookings Institution-Governance Studies), Robert Chesney (University of Texas-Law), and Larkin Reynolds (Brookings Institution-Governance Studies) have posted The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking on SSRN. [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 7:14 pm by Jonathan H. Adler
He was also Indiana state coordinator for the Human Rights Campaign from 1998–2002 and a member of the Obama campaign’s national LGBT steering and policy committee.UPDATE: More from Benjamin Wittes, another DOMA opponent, here. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 8:50 am by Kali Borkoski
At Lawfare, Benjamin Witte reprints reflections by Sabin Willett, who represented the Uighurs in Kiyemba v. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 5:40 pm by Orin Kerr
Jeffrey Rosen and Benjamin Wittes edited the volume, which I believe will be published eventually as a book. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 6:05 am by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
Incentivizing Secure Platforms for Growth’s Future (Benjamin Wittes). [read post]