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21 Jan 2017, 7:00 am
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]
10 Dec 2016, 6:42 am
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]
14 Jul 2017, 12:22 pm
ICYMI: Yesterday, on Lawfare Benjamin Wittes posted the Rational Security podcast. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 10:35 am
Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes note in their book on Trump that political scientists, “have long treated the power to speak as an important feature of presidential power. [read post]
17 Jan 2021, 9:28 am
Benjamin Wittes argued that while the bipartisan impeachment is an important and necessary step, there are many problems it does not solve. [read post]
28 Apr 2018, 4:02 am
For the Lawfare Podcast, Susan Hennessey spoke to Bobby Chesney and Scott Anderson about the new draft AUMF in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. [read post]
14 Apr 2018, 5:51 am
Susan Hennessey, Matthew Kahn, and Benjamin Wittes offered six takeaways from the president’s threats to remove Rosenstein. [read post]
15 Jun 2019, 6:01 am
On Wednesday, Jen Patja Howell shared the latest episode of Rational Security, a conversation with Tamara Cofman Wittes, Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes and Sophia Yan on protests in Hong Kong, Kamala Harris’s comments on indicting Trump, and Pete Buttigieg’s foreign policy speech: Benjamin Wittes urged Democrats to stop urging the prosecution of Trump for obstruction of justice and offered an alternative… [read post]
17 Sep 2020, 1:16 pm
” Shane Harris, Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes and Tamara Cofman Wittes discussed the recent Washington Post story about a pro-Trump organization running a troll farm. [read post]
5 Jan 2019, 5:22 am
Shane Harris, Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes, and Tamara Cofman Wittes discussed how the new Congress and a new Cabinet might confront major national security challenges in 2019 on this week’s Rational Security: The “New Year New You” Edition: On Jan. 1, 2019, Defense Secretary James Mattis departed the Pentagon and was replaced on an acting basis by his deputy, Patrick Shanahan. [read post]
19 Oct 2017, 11:02 am
Lawfare editors Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes recently criticized efforts to reform Section 702 of FISA before it expires at the end of 2017. [read post]
24 Dec 2016, 7:00 am
" And the usual suspects discussed the seizure on Rational Security: Writing from Jerusalem, Benjamin Wittes and Paul Rosenzweig argued that Donald Trump’s controversial pick for ambassador to Israel, who is a settlement enthusiast who has expressed the desire to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, poses a serious danger to the region. [read post]
8 Oct 2017, 11:00 am
Benjamin Wittes highlighted the importance of developing common vocabulary to describe them; Jane Chong stressed the consequences, including legal ones, of President Obama labeling the Boston Marathon bombings terrorism but not the Charleston shootings; and Susan Hennessey spoke particularly of the legal logic in categorizing terrorism. [read post]
15 Jun 2018, 10:30 am
Autumn Brewington, Victoria Clark, Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic, Matthew Kahn and Benjamin Wittes discussed nine initial takeaways from the Inspector General’s report. [read post]
11 May 2017, 8:14 am
Yet this is the process that Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Rod Rosenstein effectively bypassed in a conclusory and rushed-out memorandum for the Attorney General—a memorandum that, as Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey have noted, reads like an op-ed and that, as Bob Bauer observes, raises more questions than it answers. [read post]
17 Dec 2016, 8:04 am
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]
25 Feb 2017, 7:00 am
Ben and Susan Hennessey provided thoughts and comments on a message they received from a group of Foreign Service officers about Trump’s refugee ban and their obligations to the interagency process and in implementing potentially faulty executive orders. [read post]
11 Jun 2021, 10:06 am
ICYMI: Yesterday on Lawfare Benjamin Wittes shared his thoughts on recent Republican attacks on Lawfare’s former executive editor, Susan Hennessey, following her appointment to a position in the Justice Department’s National Security Division. [read post]
19 Oct 2019, 4:48 am
Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes posted part twelve of The Report, Lawfare’s podcast recounting the story of the Mueller Report. [read post]
5 Oct 2017, 12:48 pm
Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes reviewed the latest updates on Paul Manafort for their Lawfare@FP column. [read post]
