Benjamin Wittes - Mentions and Appearances

"There is little prospect of congressional Republicans abandoning the president as long as this resilience in his job-approval numbers persists. So the key question is whether support for the president among Republican voters will meaningfully erode in the face of a more public presentation of the president’s behavior with respect to Ukraine."

"This is a lose-lose situation for the White House. Every time there is a release of information, ... the factual landscape gets worse for the president."

If it's lawful, ethical and moral to use force, then it's lawful, ethical and moral to use drones.

…[D]on't be too surprised if [Chief Justice] Roberts [in his] next terms looks like a conservative again. He actually did not stray very far from where the other four conservatives ended up in this [ACA] case — just over a consequential line.

There is no evidence… that the justice delivered in military commissions is harsher than the justice delivered in federal court.

There’s the attitude that we express [toward data privacy], and there’s the attitude we live — and Congress is the same way.

Three successive administrations have made a priority out of capturing and killing Osama bin Laden, and there’s a lot of continuity in that.

The verdict has offered a vision of the nightmare scenario – acquittal in a terrorism case involving a high value detainee.