Quotes About Benjamin Wittes

I'm positively enthusiastic about American surveillance policies.

There's all kinds of crazy right-wing conspiracies about me.

Eric Holder is a decent man.

Drosnin's 'The Bible Code' would hardly be worth mentioning were it not such a smash hit.

I was much less offended than others were by the CIA's interrogations in the years after September 11.

I understand that a lot of people who use phrases like #resistance have found my work valuable. But my job is to look at difficult problems of national security in ways that may be useful to policymakers and the public.

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.

I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.