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20 Mar 2020, 5:00 am
It is a fundamental principle in our country that nobody is above the law, not even the president. [read post]
17 Oct 2016, 12:47 pm
ICYMI: This Weekend, on Lawfare Benjamin Wittes posted Rational Security, the “John Podesta Makes a Mean Risotto” Edition. [read post]
30 Oct 2020, 1:17 pm
There’s always some worry about violence or intimidation at the polls, but this year that concern is particularly stark. [read post]
6 Feb 2017, 11:19 am
Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey assured those concerned that Rick Ledgett’s retirement from the NSA was not a political protest. [read post]
11 May 2017, 10:46 am
Susan Hennessey and Quinta Jurecic considered whether the involvement of Attorney General Jeff Sessions in the dismissal of Comey constituted a violation of his pledge to recuse himself from “any existing or future investigations or any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President. [read post]
11 Oct 2016, 11:19 am
Benjamin Wittes revisited the potential for a Trump administration to abuse the powers of the Department of Justice. [read post]
11 Jan 2019, 5:06 am
(Full disclosure: Protect Democracy, the group sponsoring the report, represents Lawfare contributors and editors Benjamin Wittes, Jack Goldsmith, Scott Anderson and Susan Hennessey on a number of separate matters.) [read post]
26 Jul 2016, 11:37 am
National Security Adviser Susan Rice told Chinese officials that while the two countries should work to ease tensions in the contested waters of the South China Sea, the United States would continue conducting naval operations in the region. [read post]
8 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm
Jeff Sessions’s departure as Attorney General marks a “profoundly dangerous moment” in the investigation of President Trump’s possible ties to Russia, wrote Mikhaila Fogel, Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic, Matthew Kahn, Anushka Limaye, and Benjamin Wittes in an article for Lawfare. [read post]
22 Jan 2020, 5:06 am
On Jan. 3, President Trump launched an unexpected drone strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Iranian Quds Force. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 11:25 am
CNN informs us that House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has canceled the Committee’s scheduled open hearing next Tuesday with former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, and former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates. [read post]
3 Mar 2017, 12:21 pm
The New York Times tells us that after facing a bipartisan firestorm of criticism due to revelations that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with and spoke to the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, twice during the election, he has agreed to recuse himself from investigations involving potentially improper contact between Trump associates and Russian officials. [read post]
25 Sep 2017, 11:20 am
They will join Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes in a discussion on the challenges of lawyering for and against the current administration. [read post]
9 Mar 2018, 4:00 am
Late last year, in an interview with The New York Times, President Trump declared that he has the “absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department. [read post]
12 Jun 2020, 2:35 pm
On June 1, police, along with the National Guard, rammed protestors and hit them with shields and batons to clear a path through Lafayette Square so that President Trump could make his way to St. [read post]
3 Oct 2019, 5:00 am
Now that Congress has launched an impeachment investigation into President Trump’s effort to use the Ukrainian government to target a political rival, much ink has been spilled on the question of whether Trump’s actions amount to “high crimes and misdemeanors” for which he may be impeached. [read post]
29 Dec 2020, 8:51 am
Four years after four-star general Lloyd J. [read post]
15 Mar 2017, 11:33 am
The Washington Post informs us that the Justice Department has issued indictments for two Russian FSB officers and two criminal hackers for the theft of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014. [read post]
24 Aug 2019, 7:18 am
In July, as the country rounded out Donald Trump’s 30th month as president, sirens blared about the integrity of the 2020 presidential elections. [read post]
6 Jul 2022, 7:01 am
Again and again in recent years, current and former Justice Department officials—along with academics, journalists, and other commentators—have struggled to explain to the public the importance of Justice Department independence: the idea that the powers of law enforcement should not be wielded as a tool of political power. [read post]
