69 Quotes by Benjamin Wittes

We should stop thinking of Snowden, to the extent that we ever were, as a hero. We should stop thinking of him as a whistleblower.

In 1999 and 2000, when I was a young editorial writer at the 'Post', the 'Post' won the public service medal two years running.

National security is not just things that go boom. It is not just terrorists and foreign adversaries.

It's hardly a news flash that a secret, clandestine intelligence agency might resist giving out information about its operations when not not legally required to do so.

I have fiercely criticized both the Bush administration's counterterrorism policies and the Obama administration's - and fiercely defended both as well.

Government lawyers, like private ones, face the problem routinely of aiding in the defense and development of positions in whose correctness they don't believe.

The concept of war is not the construct that will govern - psychologically, politically, and legally - our continuing response to Al Qaeda.

I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.

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