Attorney general Quote by Benjamin Wittes

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

I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.

— Benjamin Wittes

I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.

— Benjamin Wittes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eric Holder is a decent man.

— Benjamin Wittes

Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

— Benjamin Wittes

I generally favor permissive abortion laws.

— Benjamin Wittes