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6 Jul 2022, 7:01 am by Quinta Jurecic
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]
On Jan. 31 and Feb. 5, The Washington Post reported that former President Trump routinely “tore up briefings and schedules, articles and letters, memos both sensitive and mundane” in violation of the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and that some of the records received by the Jan. 6 committee had been “ripped up and then taped back together. [read post]
18 Oct 2021, 11:35 am by Jonathan Shaub
Stephen Bannon has defied the Jan. 6 Committee’s subpoena for documents and testimony. [read post]
16 Aug 2021, 9:17 am by Benjamin Wittes
As readers know, the last few months have been ones of transition for us, with Susan Hennessey and Margaret Taylor joining the administration and Quinta Jurecic stepping down as managing editor to become a Brookings fellow and take on a different role at Lawfare. [read post]
12 Jun 2021, 1:29 pm by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast in which Michel Paradis sits down with Lawfare Executive Editor Scott Anderson to discuss the Senate’s new proposed reforms to combat sexual assault in the military: 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]
11 Jun 2021, 10:06 am by Ajay Sarma, Christiana Wayne
  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]
10 Jun 2021, 7:40 am by Benjamin Wittes
Susan Hennessey was not at any time one of them. [read post]
24 May 2021, 10:57 am by Scott R. Anderson
We’re excited to announce that we’re now accepting applications for a new position at both Lawfare and the Brookings Institution: a Lawfare senior editor and Brookings fellow who will take on recently departed Executive Editor Susan Hennessey’s portfolio focusing on cybersecurity issues! [read post]
15 May 2021, 9:07 am by Bryce Klehm, Rohini Kurup, Matt Gluck
They spoke about the political context surrounding the conflict and what it means for the Biden administration’s geopolitical aims in the region:  Howell also shared the most recent episode of Rational Security, covering the conflict in Israel and the Palestinian territories, the Colonial Pipeline hack and division within the Republican Party—along with a special farewell to Susan Hennessey: Rohini Kurup shared a livestream of a Senate Appropriations Committee… [read post]
27 Apr 2021, 7:43 am by Bryce Klehm
ET, Scott Anderson, Lawfare senior editor, Susan Hennessey, Lawfare executive editor, Quinta Jurecic, Lawfare managing editor, and David Priess, Lawfare chief operating officer, will join Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare editor in chief, to take questions from the Lawfare community about the first 100 days of the Biden administration and implications for the future of U.S. national security. powered by Crowdcast Sign up… [read post]
9 Feb 2021, 8:22 am by Bob Bauer
As Benjamin Wittes and Susan Hennessey have written, Donald Trump had a “wholly new vision of the office and his powers,” one that “elevates the expressive and personal dimensions of the office over everything else. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 10:14 am by Victoria Gallegos
Susan Hennessey, senior fellow in Governance Studies  and Lawfare executive editor, will moderate a panel discussion with Daniel Epps, law professor at Washington University in St. [read post]
23 Jan 2021, 10:24 am by Victoria Gallegos, Tia Sewell
  Susan Hennessey and Rohini Kurup argued that the vote to grant secretary of defense nominee General Lloyd Austin a waiver, which overrides the statutory requirement limiting recent active military duty officers from the job, is a significant decision on how the statutory requirement will be used in the future. [read post]
22 Jan 2021, 9:45 am by Kalvis Golde
Former Attorney General Eric Holder will deliver a keynote address, which will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Susan Hennessey and Molly Reynolds of Brookings, Daniel Epps of Washington University in St. [read post]
19 Jan 2021, 1:27 pm by Tia Sewell
  ICYMI: Yesterday on Lawfare Susan Hennessey and Rohini Kurup argued that the vote on whether to grant Gen. [read post]
17 Jan 2021, 9:28 am by Tia Sewell
Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, an episode in which Wittes sat down with Lawfare’s Alan Rozenshtein, Bryce Klehm, David Priess, Quinta Jurecic and Susan Hennessey to talk through the issues at hand regarding Trump’s second impeachment: Keith Whittington disagreed with former Judge Michael Luttig’s assertion that former presidents are beyond the reach of the impeachment power. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
To talk through it all, Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare's Alan Rozenshtein, Bryce Klehm, David Priess, Quinta Jurecic and Susan Hennessey. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 10:35 am by Jacob Schulz
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]
8 Jan 2021, 2:01 am by Jen Patja Howell
Benjamin Wittes sat down with Fred Burton, the executive director of the Center for Protective Intelligence at Ontic and a former protective officer; Garrett Graff, a journalist who covers federal law enforcement and who wrote a book about continuity in government; and Lawfare's executive editor Susan Hennessey. [read post]
4 Jan 2021, 11:56 am by Matt Gluck, Tia Sewell
Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of Rational Security reflecting on 2020’s big national security stories and what to watch for in 2021: Howell shared the annual edition of the Ask Us Anything Lawfare Podcast, in which Lawfare contributors answered questions from Lawfare readers: And Howell shared 2020’s last episode of the Lawfare Podcast, featuring a recap of the year’s events with commentary from Lawfare’s Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic, Scott… [read post]