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 and is co-chair of the Hoover Institution's Working Group on National Security, Technology, and Law.
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The 500-page Justice Department report underscores that the investigation has no simple narrative arc.
Our latest data on which institutions the public trusts and mistrusts to protect the country’s security.
The document is most interesting not as a legal work but for what it says about the president’s lawyers’ understanding of the special counsel’s investigation of obstruction.
Support for Gina Haspel’s nomination to be CIA director jumped noticeably after her confirmation hearing.
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An update on a Freedom of Information Act request.
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