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11 Feb 2017, 4:53 am by Jordan Brunner
Trump, Emma Kohse summarized it, and Benjamin Wittes reviewed the two big questions at issue in the Trump case, and how they were handled by the Ninth Circuit. [read post]
8 Feb 2017, 10:00 am by Jonathan Rauch
In the new (March) issue of The Atlantic, and with the help of Lawfare editors Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes, I take up the question of how the damage might be mitigated if President Trump proves to be either authoritarian enough or impulsive and vindictive enough to threaten the integrity of core democratic institutions and norms. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 11:19 am by Jordan Brunner
Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey assured those concerned that Rick Ledgett’s retirement from the NSA was not a political protest. [read post]
4 Feb 2017, 5:33 am by Jordan Brunner
Jack Goldsmith shared his thoughts on why Yates’ reasons for not enforcing Trump’s refugee ban were weak and unpersuasive, and Benjamin Wittes argued that Yates should have resigned rather than refuse to enforce the order. [read post]
3 Feb 2017, 11:32 am by Jordan Brunner
  ICYMI: Yesterday, on Lawfare Benjamin Wittes wrote a note to readers, new and old. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 10:54 am by Jordan Brunner
Jack Goldsmith shared his thoughts on why Yates’ reasons for not enforcing Trump’s refugee ban were weak and unpersuasive. [read post]
28 Jan 2017, 6:18 am by Jordan Brunner
Quinta Jurecic flagged the video and transcript of Trump’s speech and the various reactions to it, and Benjamin Wittes expressed curiosity as to why the White House characterized the political opinions of apolitical career CIA employees after the speech. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 10:47 am by Jordan Brunner
Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes posted the latest Hoover Book Soiree: Edward Jay Epstein and “How America Lost Its Secrets. [read post]
21 Jan 2017, 7:00 am by Jordan Brunner
As Friday neared, President Obama chose as one of his last acts the commutation of her sentence, which Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey praised, and from which Paul Rosenzweig dissented. [read post]
17 Jan 2017, 1:03 pm by Quinta Jurecic , Jordan Brunner
  ICYMI: This (Long) Weekend, on Lawfare Benjamin Wittes posted the Lawfare Podcast,  featuring Jack Goldsmith’s interview of Jameel Jaffer on his new book The Drone Memos. [read post]
14 Jan 2017, 6:08 am by Quinta Jurecic
Benjamin Wittes, Susan Hennessey, and Quinta Jurecic laid out their point of view on the documents and why Lawfare chose not to publish them. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 12:45 pm by Helen Klein Murillo
Jack Goldsmith argued that the U.S. should consider a broader range of tools to combat cyber-meddling, particularly cutting deals with adversaries. [read post]
7 Jan 2017, 7:32 am by Quinta Jurecic
Danielle Citron and Benjamin Wittes suggested a system of “follow buddies and block buddies” to improve civility and privacy on Twitter. [read post]
4 Jan 2017, 11:42 am by Quinta Jurecic
  ICYMI: Yesterday, on Lawfare Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes invited us to the January 9th Hoover Book Soiree with Jameel Jaffer on The Drone Memos: Targeted Killing, Secrecy, and the Law. [read post]
17 Dec 2016, 8:04 am by Quinta Jurecic
Tillerson also featured prominently in this week’s episode of Rational Security, in which the crew brought on special guest Thomas Rid to talk about the DNC hack: Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes argued that, given Tillerson’s close connections with Russia, his nomination is deeply disturbing in context of Trump’s unwillingness to take seriously the intelligence community’s reports of Russian meddling in the presidential election. [read post]
10 Dec 2016, 6:42 am by Quinta Jurecic
Benjamin Wittes provided his thoughts on the report, and Chris Mirasola and Helen Klein Murillo gave us a detailed summary of the document itself. [read post]
6 Dec 2016, 12:45 pm by Zachary Burdette
Benjamin Wittes uploaded the White House’s “Report on the Legal and Policy Frameworks Guiding the United States' Use of Military Force and Related National Security Operations” and provided some initial analysis. [read post]
3 Dec 2016, 7:00 am by Zachary Burdette
Jack Goldsmith and Benjamin Wittes flagged the next Hoover Book Soiree for Christopher Moran’s Company Confessions: Secrets, Memoirs, and the CIA. [read post]
2 Dec 2016, 11:37 am by Quinta Jurecic
Benjamin Wittes responded to Jack Goldsmith’s essay on “libertarian panic” with a defense of his own panic over Trump. [read post]