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Quotes by Benjamin Wittes
Benjamin Wittes is a prominent American legal scholar, journalist, and the co-founder of the influential blog Lawfare, which has become a crucial platform for national security discourse. Born in 1970, Wittes has served as a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where his insights have shaped public understanding of law and policy in the post-9/11 era. His writings, which bridge the gap between complex legal issues and accessible commentary, have left a lasting impact on the fields of law, security, and governance.
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"While I oppose the death penalty as a policy matter, in a legal culture in which we reserve the right to execute people for relatively routine street crimes, it seems quite absurd for the justice system to get squeamish about executing the operational masterminds of Sept. 11."
Benjamin Wittes"For those who support same-sex marriage - and I support it without reservation - the ideal of equality and the belief in the dignity of same-sex relationships necessarily makes the issue seem a great deal like the civil-rights struggles of the past."
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"Secret courts require great faith that the Justice Department - and future Justice Departments - will act with integrity."
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 the Department of Justice. With no defense lawyers present, they need only show probable cause that the target is an 'agent of a foreign power' engaged in intelligence gathering against the United States."
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"Sometimes, the intelligence community does legal collection against a legitimate foreign intelligence target and that target interacts with U.S. persons, against whom our people thus end up collecting information as a collateral matter."
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 U.S. foreign policy and intelligence should be."
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