Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
If Trump wants to corruptly direct the conduct of an investigation in order to out an FBI source who was helping our… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Conservatives complain that the Supreme Court is too liberal. Liberals complain that it's too conservative. Both charges are inaccurate: in reality the… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Government lawyers, like private ones, face the problem routinely of aiding in the defense and development of positions in whose correctness they… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist… — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but… — 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 Image
I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump. — Benjamin Wittes Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
