President Obama's decision not to go to Congress for help in establishing reasonable standards for the continued detention of Guantanamo detainees is a failure of leadership in the project of putting American law on a sound basis for a long-term… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Reasonable people can disagree about the authorities the NSA should have, when it's appropriate for the CIA to use drone strikes, and how assertive… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
If you believe, as I do, that the scope and range of presidential authority is great, that puts a lot of weight on the… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
In any long string of letters, one can find countless anomalies that will seem like convincing proofs of hidden meaning to the mind that… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
To get a FISA warrant to spy on a suspected spy, the feds go before a super-secret court located in a sealed room in… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
One effect of Roe was to mobilize a permanent constituency for criminalizing abortion - a constituency that has driven much of the southern realignment… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
There is no doubt in my mind that Article II limits to a considerable degree the application of the obstruction statutes to the president… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
It might seem perverse for honestly religious people to group their faiths with those of the sadists and megalomaniacs who run most cults, but… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
We should stop thinking of Snowden, to the extent that we ever were, as a hero. We should stop thinking of him as a… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
Trump fired Jim Comey because the most dangerous thing in the world, if you are Donald Trump, is a person who tells the truth,… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share
