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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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RT @drunkenpredator: .@benjaminwittes goes to Parliament, talks drones, drops knowledge. A better use of Sunday morning than talk shows. http://t.co/Qeo533V7aE
Jun 16
@joshuafoust I quoted it in my Brookings post reintroducing that paper this morning. http://t.co/zutnUkYh0Q
Jun 13
@bmaz Galston is one of the finest policy minds I have ever met. He is also, by the way, a world class political theorist. Rare combination.
Jun 12
At last! Joel Brenner writing for @lawfareblog. It is a good day in the cosmos. #win http://t.co/PRadt8was0
Jun 11
@attackerman @JameelJaffer @benwizner I love jokes. But sometimes vamp off them to make serious points.
Jun 10
@attackerman to be precise, it wasn't @JameelJaffer himself but his shop: @benwizner, I believe.
@attackerman I believe in courts having the best arguments advocates can make. @JameelJaffer et al once even filed a declaration by me!
@attackerman @JameelJaffer I very much approve of lawtrolling of that sort.
@speechboy71 believe it or not, I haven't even had a chance to READ that story yet. Hoping to get to it this afternoon.
@speechboy71 You should know that @BobbyChesney is on twitter too.
@speechboy71 Thanks!
RT @BobbyChesney: @benjaminwittes and I argue in @tnr that the PRISM leak was far less defensible than the Verizon leak http://t.co/vonK5jMVrn
@MiaFarrow welcome!
@joshuafoust thanks!
People may find this 2011 paper on liberty and security and Ben Franklin's famous quote useful in re the NSA stuff. http://t.co/85qkNloVxb
@cacarrillo I hope so!
Jun 09
@cacarrillo many thanks, but actually, both are two years old. the blog post just keeps circulating around the 'net these days.
@jsreno @timoreilly I actually wrote a whole paper about that subject--leading with the history of that quotation: http://t.co/PAAH92eUXH
@Shoq @speechboy71 And that's not wrong, actually. These are highly sensitive, covert programs. That's why we have a FISA Ct.
Jun 08
@Shoq @speechboy71 Sorry, was on a trans-Pacific flight. Explanation will be that all litigation before the FISA Ct. is secret--and must be.
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