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Senior Fellow, Governance Studies
Benjamin Wittes is a senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He co-founded and is the editor-in-chief of the Lawfare blog, which is devoted to sober and serious discussion of "Hard National Security Choices," and is a member of the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law. He focuses on legal issues surrounding the war on terrorism and national security, judicial nominations and confirmations, and the federal courts. | View Full Bio
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If it's lawful, ethical and moral to use force, then it's lawful, ethical and moral to use drones. December 1, 2012, Benjamin Wittes, New Zealand Herald
If it's lawful, ethical and moral to use force, then it's lawful, ethical and moral to use drones.
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Benjamin Wittes
Look who has discovered inherent presidential powers!...
May 08
@humie924 @heneghanp Neither, technically. Detention is authorized for those who are part of Al Qaeda, Taliban or associated forces.
May 07
@heneghanp because they are part of enemy forces in an armed conflict. The authority to detain the enemy in war not related to criminal law.
May 06
@heneghanp ...with admissible evidence. It's not a question of fragility. It's a question of a mismatch between system and application.
@heneghanp you can't bring to trial people who have not committed crimes or people whose crimes you cannot prove beyond reasonable doubt...
YouTube Video of the Month: Camera on the back of Peregrine Falcon as it dives at 200 mph to take out a flying duck. http://t.co/RSJUf3F4tg
May 05
@johnson_carrie maybe she just wants that certain unpredictable quality in her lashes...
RT @bmaz: @benjaminwittes Drone smacked down by Lady Justice http://t.co/XMDiE5KhNz
RT @bmaz: Trojan duck, full of very broke+desperate Greeks RT @benjaminwittes A very large--and very yellow--new nat sec threat http://t.co/l5DAhtNj1V
@bmaz Most excellent!!!!
@caidid @CleverDever "And if so be not done, expect news of the Maid who will come to see you shortly, to your very great injury." Word.
May 04
@caidid @CleverDever yeah, it's not bad for an illiterate 17-year-old hearing voices...
@CleverDever @caidid That girl really knew how to declare war: http://t.co/7MYwMhgqsH
A very large--and very yellow--new national security threat. http://t.co/Ua917Iwp6s
Pain Quotidien is playing the Debussy string quartet. #win.
RT @AthertonKD: #ff to @TheLoopcast, an astoundingly good podcast run by @rejectionking featuring interviews with guests like @azelin & @benjaminwittes
May 03
RT @Chris_Co1e: @benjaminwittes @kennethanderson @DAaronovitch @naureenshah @JeremyJWaldron Oxford Union debate videos are up!: http://t.co/W2Mk3z45fj
Video of the great drone showdown debate at the Oxford Union last week. We were beaten but unbowed! http://t.co/FHSBUVIVN6
@Mehrunissa92 ...though I am not sure, that the same is true of you and me.
May 02
@Mehrunissa92 almost the entirety of what separates us, I think, is less about drones than about US policy in Pakistan--and I suspect...
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"If it's lawful, ethical and moral to use force, then it's lawful, ethical and moral to use drones."
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