Benjamin Wittes (born November 5, 1969) is an American legal journalist. He is editor in chief of Lawfare and senior fellow in governance studies at The Brookings Institution, where he is the research director in public law, and co-director of the Harvard Law School–Brookings Project on Law and Security.[1] He works principally on issues related to American law and national security. Wittes was number 15 on the Politico 50 of 2017, described as "Bard of the Deep State".[2]
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law and national security. Wittes was number 15 on the Politico 50 of 2017, described as "Bard of the Deep State". Wittes was born in 1969 in Boston,...
manipulation of the rule of law and the humanitarian values it represents". BenjaminWittes, Robert Chesney, and Jack Goldsmith employ the word in the name of...
community activities. He is a co-founder and contributor along with BenjaminWittes and Jack Goldsmith to the Lawfare Blog. He also co-hosts The National...
Tamara Cofman Wittes is an American writer and public figure. She became the fourth president of the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in 2024. Before...
He is a co-founder of the Lawfare Blog along with Brookings fellow BenjaminWittes and Texas Law professor Robert M. Chesney. Goldsmith was born in 1962...
Detained Enemy Combatants. Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by BenjaminWittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according...
she worked on Gitmo. Robert Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, Matthew Waxman, BenjaminWittes (July 27, 2014). "A New White House Signal on AUMF Reform?". Lawfare...
Review Tribunals (CSRT). Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by BenjaminWittes, would later, in 2008, list detainees still held in Guantanamo, and...
content" on the Internet. In a 2017 Fordham Law Review article with BenjaminWittes, Citron argued that "the internet will not break [from] denying bad...
state would have to approve your music." American legal journalist BenjaminWittes, a senior fellow at Brookings Institution, stated he is willing to...
the memos' existence. On May 19, a friend of Comey, Lawfare founder BenjaminWittes, came forward as the principal source for the initial The New York...
law, and therefore there is no mass surveillance in our country." BenjaminWittes in The New Republic described the exchange as "a highly-scripted propaganda...
Detained Enemy Combatants. Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by BenjaminWittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according...
Miami Herald reports. The war crimes prosecutor dropped those charges. BenjaminWittes (2016-08-16). "A Big Guantanamo Transfer: Progress Towards the Site's...
military commissions. Scholars at the Brookings Institution, led by BenjaminWittes, listed the captives still held in Guantanamo in December 2008, according...
Archived 14 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine by Donna Haraway Chong, BenjaminWittes and Jane (5 September 2014). "Our Cyborg Future: Law and Policy Implications"...
more unsavory practices of the intelligence community." Legal analyst BenjaminWittes called the proposed legislation "the worst of both worlds", saying:...
Lieu of Fun, a daily hour-long live-streaming show co-hosted with BenjaminWittes. The show was created as an alternative viewing experience to the presidential...
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