Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
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The concerns of a member of Congress focused on political messaging aren’t the concerns of a prosecutor. And when a single document tries to speak to both sets of goals at the same time, compromises will have to be made.
Yes, the investigation had problems—some of them serious. But the problems were not political in character. There was no effort to “get” candidate Trump. There was no “insurance policy,” no coup, no treason.
The rules under which Donald Trump will face trial in the Senate are a combination of theatrically detailed and maddeningly vague.
A cohesive narrative of the Ukraine scandal, drawn from the collection of testimonies in the impeachment inquiry.
A key exchange between the ambassador and Rep. Adam Schiff gives the whole ballgame away.
The testimony released so far tells a story of the hijacking of the policy process and the conditioning of U.S. policy on political favors to Donald Trump.
Today, we released the fifteenth episode of Lawfare’s narrative audio documentary, The Report, which recounts the story Robert Mueller lays out in his 448-page report.