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31 Jul 2018, 10:55 am by Benjamin Wittes
” Justice Department letter to Benjamin Wittes, July 24, 2018   It isn’t every day that the U.S. [read post]
17 Feb 2018, 4:36 am by William Ford
Nora Ellingsen and Benjamin Wittes reported that career officials at the Justice Department did not support President Trump’s false claim that the “vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offense since 9/11 came here from outside of our country” based on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. [read post]
13 Feb 2018, 1:02 pm by William Ford
Nora Ellingsen and Benjamin Wittes reported that career officials at the Justice Department did not support President Trump’s false claim that the “vast majority of individuals convicted of terrorism and terrorism-related offense since 9/11 came here from outside of our country” based on internal documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 9:33 am by Nora Ellingsen, Benjamin Wittes
” In the wake of that analysis, Benjamin Wittes filed a Freedom of Information Act suit to find out how precisely the president came to so dramatically mischaracterize Justice Department data by way of imputing a disproportionate share of terrorism to immigrants. [read post]
10 Feb 2018, 5:26 am by William Ford
Nora Ellingsen, Quinta Jurecic, Sabrina McCubbin, Mercer and Wittes wrote that more than 100 pages of declassified FBI communications reveal the bureau’s real reaction to the firing of former director James Comey. [read post]
6 Feb 2018, 12:04 pm by William Ford
  ICYMI: Yesterday on Lawfare Nora Ellingsen, Quinta Jurecic, Sabrina McCubbin, Shannon Togawa Mercer and Benjamin Wittes wrote that more than 100 pages of declassified internal FBI communications reveal the bureau’s real reaction to former director Comey’s firing. [read post]
As Benjamin Wittes wrote at the time he filed the FOIA requests: After reading Ellingsen's piece, a thought occurred to me: this is a factual dispute with a large body of objective evidence behind it. [read post]
19 Jan 2018, 2:30 pm by Carrie Cordero, Paul Rosenzweig
Lisa Daniels, Nora Ellingsen, and Benjamin Wittes have already written separately to explain how their independent research disputes the president’s repeated claims about terrorist activity perpetrated by foreign-born persons. [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 12:45 pm by Vanessa Sauter
ICYMI, Yesterday on Lawfare Lisa Daniels, Nora Ellingsen and Benjamin Wittes critiqued the DOJ-DHS report on foreign-born individuals and terrorism. [read post]
Indeed, read properly, it actually validates our criticisms of an earlier Trump statement to the same effect as tonight’s tweet—a statement one of us (Benjamin Wittes) described as a “lie[] before Congress about data kept by his Justice Department” and that the other two (Nora Ellingsen and Lisa Daniels) painstakingly combed through Justice Department data to evaluate. [read post]
14 Oct 2017, 5:05 am by Garrett Hinck
Nora Ellingsen provided a roundup of developments in four recent international terrorism cases. [read post]
12 Oct 2017, 11:32 am by Vanessa Sauter
Benjamin Wittes posted this week’s Rational Security podcast. [read post]
23 Sep 2017, 5:32 am by Garrett Hinck
Benjamin Wittes flagged the reply brief filed on cert in Bahlul vs. [read post]
9 Sep 2017, 4:35 am by Garrett Hinck
Nora Ellingsen summarized FBI and Justice Department actions related to international terrorism prosecutions over the spring and summer. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 11:49 am by Garrett Hinck
Nora Ellingsen summarized developments in international terrorism prosecutions over the last few months. [read post]
26 Aug 2017, 4:10 am by Matthew Kahn
Nora Ellingsen summarized the recent ruling in the Abu Khatallah case. [read post]
25 Aug 2017, 10:56 am by Vanessa Sauter, Matthew Kahn
  ICYMI: Yesterday, on Lawfare Benjamin Wittes posted this week’s episode of Rational Security, the “Everything Old Is New Again” edition. [read post]
5 Aug 2017, 4:26 am by Alex Potcovaru
After Christopher Wray was confirmed and sworn in as FBI Director this week, Wittes and Nora Ellingsen analyzed the initial decision he will have to make about what to do with his deputy, Andrew McCabe. [read post]
4 Aug 2017, 12:56 pm by Alex Potcovaru
Wittes and Nora Ellingsen analyzed the decision new FBI Director Christopher Wray will have to make about his deputy Andrew McCabe. [read post]
3 Jun 2017, 4:17 am by Matthew Kahn
Nora Ellingsen wrote about how rank-and-file FBI personnel are handling the firing of James Comey. [read post]