Lawfare Blog
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Type of site
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Blog |
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| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
| Owner | The Lawfare Institute |
| Editor | Benjamin Wittes |
| Slogan(s) | Hard National Security Choices |
| Website | lawfareblog.com |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | September 1, 2010 |
| Current status | Active |
Lawfare is a blog dedicated to national security issues, published by the Lawfare Institute in cooperation with the Brookings Institution. It was started in September 2010 by Benjamin Wittes (author and former editorial writer for The Washington Post), Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith, and University of Texas at Austin law professor Robert Chesney. Goldsmith was the head of the Office of Legal Counsel in the George W. Bush administration's Justice Department, and Chesney served on a detention-policy task force in the Obama administration. Its writers include a large number of law professors, law students, and former George W. Bush and Barack Obama administration officials.
Lawfare's coverage of the Trump administration has brought the blog significant increases in readership and national attention. Compared to the same time period during the previous year, the website's web traffic during January 2017 was up by 1,101%.
The blog came to prominence in January 2017 when President Donald Trump tweeted "LAWFARE" and quoted a line from one of its blog posts that criticized the reasoning in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that blocked the Trump's first refugee-and-travel ban. Trump reportedly tweeted the excerpt minutes after the line was quoted on Morning Joe. Wittes, who supported the court ruling, criticized Trump harshly for the tweet, asserting that Trump distorted the argument presented in the article. Wittes also noted that it was disturbing that Trump, among other things, cited the line "with apparently no idea who the author was or what the publication was, and indeed without reading the rest of the article," and that no one in the White House vetted the tweet.
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