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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Seven questions about national security and the way forward in the wake of Tuesday’s events.
The document should—though undoubtedly won’t—puncture some of the conspiracy theories that treat George Papadopoulos as some kind of victim of an overzealous prosecutor out to get Trump or as an extraneous “coffee boy.”
The second essay in a series on federalist governance in the Middle East.
A little-noticed Watergate-era opinion addresses “Presidential Amenability to Judicial Subpoenas.”
How a Republican operative’s efforts to find 33,000 emails may have intersected with Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election.
Our latest data on which institutions the public trusts and mistrusts to protect the country’s security.
In May 2017, we laid out seven theories that might account for the facts of the Russia Connection. While the spectrum of possibility remains vast, the more innocent explanations have clearly been ruled out.