Benjamin Wittes

I defend non-criminal detention.

— Benjamin Wittes

There is nothing normal about removing the FBI director, as a general matter. It's an extraordinary measure. This is an office that…

— Benjamin Wittes

In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running.

— Benjamin Wittes

Drosnin's 'The Bible Code' would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit.

— Benjamin Wittes

The nature of the job of attorney general has changed - irrevocably. And we should never again have an attorney general, of…

— Benjamin Wittes

We should never again have an attorney general capable of saying virtually nothing as the law of major intelligence programs and the…

— Benjamin Wittes

I understand that a lot of people who use phrases like #resistance have found my work valuable. But my job is to…

— Benjamin Wittes

June 10, 2002, the day John Ashcroft announced the arrest of Jose Padilla, marked a low point in Ashcroft's career as Attorney General.

— Benjamin Wittes

Although environmental groups sometimes raise issues in the confirmation process, environmental protection is not central to the fear-mongering of the liberal interest…

— Benjamin Wittes

There's all kinds of crazy right-wing conspiracies about me.

— Benjamin Wittes

Back when the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology were one great intellectual hodgepodge, proving the existence of God was a relatively commonplace…

— Benjamin Wittes

The concept of war is not the construct that will govern - psychologically, politically, and legally - our continuing response to Al…

— Benjamin Wittes

In general, liberals fear conservative judges far too much. In almost all areas, in fact, they dramatically overstate the stakes.

— Benjamin Wittes

I was much less offended than others were by the CIA's interrogations in the years after September 11.

— Benjamin Wittes

The core constituency that Republicans must satisfy in high court nominations is the party's social conservative base, which fundamentally cares about issues,…

— Benjamin Wittes

Good intelligence analysis, after all, is all about discrimination between what's important and what's not.

— Benjamin Wittes

I normally try to ignore presidential tweets.

— Benjamin Wittes

When it comes to letting kids out into dark alleys, we understand that they have things to steal. We need to understand…

— Benjamin Wittes

Comey really spent an enormous amount of energy in the period in which both he and Trump were in office trying to…

— Benjamin Wittes

Liberals have been overselling the threat to reproductive rights for decades.

— Benjamin Wittes

The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality…

— Benjamin Wittes

The nature of constitutional delegations of power is that they entitle the empowered official to do certain things that other people can't…

— Benjamin Wittes

The reason the FISA standard is constitutional is that the government is supposed to use FISA surveillance not for criminal investigations but…

— Benjamin Wittes

When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen…

— Benjamin Wittes

Sometimes, the intelligence community does legal collection against a legitimate foreign intelligence target and that target interacts with U.S. persons, against whom…

— Benjamin Wittes