Shorts: What a Watergate Document Can Teach the House Judiciary Committee
While researching the Watergate Road Map, Benjamin Wittes discovered a letter written by the then-Chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary Peter Rodino to the chief judge of the U.S. Distric...
31 Jan 201915min
Shorts: The Intelligence Chiefs vs. the Committee with No Bull
On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee heard testimony on global threats to U.S. national security from six heads of intelligence agencies: Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, CIA Dire...
30 Jan 201912min
Stan Brand on Congressional Subpoenas and Contempt
With the Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives, the 116th Congress is expected to be one of vigorous oversight of the executive branch, complete with requests for documents and for ...
29 Jan 201937min
Jeffrey Tulis on 'The Rhetorical Presidency' on Steroids
On a flight recently, Benjamin Wittes read a book that knocked his socks off: "The Rhetorical Presidency" by political scientist Jeffrey Tulis. While written in 1987, the book seems to anticipate our ...
26 Jan 201951min
Molly Reynolds and Margaret Taylor on National Security and the 116th Congress
It's a new year with a new Congress, and the Democrats now control the House of Representatives. But how will that change affect the state of play for national security legal issues? To find out, Benj...
23 Jan 201951min
Ian Bassin on Protecting Democracy
Ian Bassin served in the White House Counsel's office under President Obama. At the dawn of the Trump administration, he became the impresario behind the litigating organization Protect Democracy, whi...
19 Jan 201940min
Special Edition: Bill Barr vs. the Committee with No Bull
Bill Barr spent Tuesday testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on his nomination to take over the reins of the Justice Department as attorney general, a role he previously held during the Ge...
16 Jan 20192h 1min
Special Edition: The FBI’s Counterintelligence Investigation of Donald Trump
Benjamin Wittes talks to Carrie Cordero, Chuck Rosenberg, David Kris, Jack Goldsmith and Susan Hennessey about the New York Times's report that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation of Do...
12 Jan 20191h 3min
