Podcast Episodes featuring Benjamin Wittes

Lawfare Blog & National Security With Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Blog [re-release]

Time4Coffee Podcast - January 04, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 135 ratings
Benjamin Wittes is the Editor-in-Chief and co-Founder of the Lawfare blog, an online publication dedicated to national security issues, published by the Lawfare Institute in cooperation with the Brookings Institution.  Lawfare was started by Ben and Robert Chesney, Texas at Austin law professor....

Benjamin Wittes admires Brett Kavanaugh’s legal record. So why wouldn’t he confirm him?

Slate News - October 05, 2018 22:37 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 5.5K ratings
Virginia Heffernan talks to Benjamin Wittes, editor-in-chief of Lawfare and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, about why he admires Brett Kavanaugh’s legal record, but also why he wouldn’t vote to confirm Kavanaugh as a member of the Supreme Court. Further reading:Why I wouldn’t confirm ...

Benjamin Wittes

Slate Conversations - March 02, 2018 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 179 ratings
Benjamin Wittes is a writer and national security expert, and the editor-in-chief of Lawfare. In a wide-ranging conversation with Isaac Chotiner, he discusses how to read the tea leaves of the Mueller investigation, why people are too critical of James Comey, and why even the Trump administration...

I Have to Ask: Benjamin Wittes

Slate Daily Feed - March 02, 2018 15:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 1K ratings
Benjamin Wittes is a writer and national security expert, and the editor-in-chief of Lawfare. In a wide-ranging conversation with Isaac Chotiner, he discusses how to read the tea leaves of the Mueller investigation, why people are too critical of James Comey, and why even the Trump administration...

The Good Fight: Benjamin Wittes

Slate Daily Feed - February 28, 2018 13:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 1K ratings
Yascha Mounk discusses the principles that should govern the national security state; whether liberals used to be too critical of the NSA; and what we do—and don’t—know about l’Affaire Russe with Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institutions and founder of Lawfare, Benjamin Wittes. Learn more about...

Benjamin Wittes’s Guide to Impeaching Trump and Beating Up Putin

Stay Tuned with Preet - October 19, 2017 04:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 30.6K ratings
Preet talks to Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare about the firing of FBI director James Comey, why President Trump should be impeached, and exactly how, given the chance, Wittes would sidekick Vladimir Putin in the chest. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad cho...

Politics & Polls #51: The Trump-Russia Story with Benjamin Wittes

Politics and Polls - July 13, 2017 00:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 116 ratings
President Donald Trump has spent his first months faced with a potential scandal involving Russia, an issue that’s only grown since the election with discussions and investigations about possible obstruction and collusion. In recent weeks, this has dominated national political debates, ...