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<title><![CDATA[Benjamin Wittes - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/16883.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Benjamin Wittes]]></description><category domain="16883">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[The Bolton Raid Was Designed To Scare People]]></title>
							<link>https://www.thebulwark.com/p/john-bolton-raid-search-fbi-trump-national-security-classified-information-intimidation-kash-patel</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I know because I was the first one there.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Despise Bolton, But Read His Book Anyway]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/despise-bolton-but-read-his-book-anyway/ar-BB15ydhc</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[According to his publisher, the memoir will be the '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'most comprehensive and substantial account of the Trump Administration,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' a chronicle of a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'President addicted to chaos, who embraced our enemies and spurned our friends, and was deeply suspicious of his own...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Law-Enforcement Abuses That Don't Bother Trump]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-law-enforcement-abuses-that-dont-bother-trump/ar-BB14TkxC</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump has seen abusive law enforcement before'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'stared it in the face, called it by its name, denounced it.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dropping Flynn Charges Implicates Whole Justice System]]></title>
							<link>https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/worse-than-a-pardon/ar-BB14BR3l</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There was an easy way for President Donald Trump to make the case against Michael Flynn go away.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[13 Unanswered Questions About Dismissal of Flynn Case]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/what-judge-sullivan-should-do/611488/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Justice Department has requested that he dismiss the case against Michael Flynn. Here are 13 questions the judge should ask of government counsel.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[To Trump, 'Total Exoneration' Always Right Around Corner]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/right-just-cannot-let-go-russia-investigation/611137/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president and his supporters continue to fixate on the Russia investigation, perpetually expecting redemption.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Being an Actual Authoritarian Is Too Much Work for Trump]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The coronavirus pandemic has been good for dictators around the world. After its initial fumbling of the virus'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s emergence and apparent lies about the scope of the problem, the Chinese Communist Party has ruthlessly clamped down on society and brought the virus under control,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Playbook Is Terribly Ill-Suited to a Pandemic]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Trump rode out the Mueller investigation. He survived impeachment. He has waved away dozens of lesser scandals as though they were nothing more than gnats.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Most Dangerous Destruction Yet]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/trumps-most-dangerous-destruction-yet/607021/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What the president is doing to America's intelligence community could have enormous repercussions for the 2020 election and the country's preparedness for threats from around the world.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Catastrophic Performance of Bill Barr]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/05/bill-barrs-performance-was-catastrophic/588574/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The attorney general misled the public in seven key ways.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mueller Is Laying Siege to the Trump Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/no-single-news-event-will-take-down-trump/577264/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t be a single news event that takes down the president.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[I Know Brett Kavanaugh, But I Wouldn't Confirm Him]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/why-i-wouldnt-confirm-brett-kavanaugh/571936/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is an article I never imagined myself writing, that I never wanted to write, that I wish I could not write.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kavanaugh Bears the Burden of Proof]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/kavanaugh-confirmation/571021/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The question isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t whether he can win confirmation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'it'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s whether he can defend against the charge he faces in a manner that is both persuasive and honorable.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Flaw in Trump's Obstruction-of-Justice Defense]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/06/even-the-president-can-obstruct-justice/561935/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t above the law, whatever his lawyers may claim'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'but prosecutors will face an unusually high burden to prove any misconduct.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Is Creating a Genuine Crisis in America]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/donald-trump-has-all-the-power/560804/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s alarming Sunday tweet could genuinely produce a crisis between the White House, on the one hand, and the Justice Department and the FBI, on the other.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Principle of Professional Law Enforcement Is on the Line]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/rosenstein-firing-coming/557894/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Expect President Trump to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in the next few days. Maybe he won'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t do it. Maybe he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ll change his mind. But Trump is apparently livid at Rosenstein and both'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' The Washington Post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' and'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' CNN'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' have reported that he is actively...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Are We on the Verge of a Constituional Crisis?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/is-america-on-the-verge-of-a-constitutional-crisis/555860/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Boycott the Republican Party]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/boycott-the-gop/550907/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Snowden Reveals His Ultimate Arrogance]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117953/edward-snowdens-nbc-interview-revealed-his-ultimate-arrogance</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Let'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s give Edward Snowden his due: He did himself a lot of good in his interview with NBC'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Brian Williams, which aired last night. He presents well, coming across as earnest, thoughtful and intelligent. There is no manic gleam in his eye, no evident hatred of his country.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Edward Snowden Is Russia's Puppet Now]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117449/edward-snowdens-embarrassing-appearance-vladimir-putins-show</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Guardian, Wash Post Don't Deserve Pulitzers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117374/2014-pulitzer-prizes-washington-post-guardian-dont-deserve-it</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I know it is rude and churlish to offer anything but warm congratulations when former colleagues win a major prize'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'much less journalism'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s most prestigious award. I know I am courting a barrage of hostile tweets and emails with these words. I know as well that I am on the losing...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President's Clever Defense of the NSA]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116284/obamas-nsa-speech-wasnt-apology-it-was-clever-defense</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[President Obama'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('’').';'s speech on Friday and its accompanying Presidential Policy Directive (PDD-28) cover a lot of ground, announce a bunch of reforms, announce plans and direction for more, and kick still others over to Congress. The speech contained a surprisingly fierce defense of NSA,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Intelligence Reform: Life Imitates Fiction]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/01/16/intelligence_reform_life_imitates_fiction_121249.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We all know the story: A liberal government finds itself embarrassed by intelligence collection activities. So it appoints a senior panel of Wise Men to recommend reforms. The Wise Men rein in the intelligence community, proscribing a series of practices that had once been the bread and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Testimony: Needed Changes to FISA Courts]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/09/27/testimony_needed_changes_to_fisa_courts_120130.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: The following testimony was given by Brookings Institution fellow Benjamin Wittes on Thursday, September 26 2013 at the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's public hearing on FISA, NSA's call records.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' 

Thank you, Chairman Feinstein, Vice Chairman Chambliss,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The NSA Non-Story]]></title>
							<link>http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114364/nsa-spying-defense-case-administration-isnt-making</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I cannot decide if I am more annoyed at the Washington Post or more annoyed at the Obama administration for the way this latest cache of Snowden-leaked NSA documents is playing. I have now gone through the documents with some care, and I find both the Post'&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‘').';'s formulation of the story and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Would Ben Franklin Trade Liberty for Wiretapping?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/13/would_ben_franklin_trade_liberty_for_wiretapping_118804.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, I wrote'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' a brief blog post'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' about Ben Franklin'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s iconic quote on the relationship between liberty and security:

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

The post detailed research I was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[NSA Surveillance of US Citizens' Phone Records]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/06/06/nsa_surveillance_of_us_citizens_phone_records_118713.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I confess myself at a bit of a loss to understand the'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' FISA Court order'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' that Glenn Greenwald'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' disclosed at the Guardian. The order required Verizon Business Network Services, under'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Section 215 of the Patriot Act,


to produce to the National Security Agency (NSA) upon service of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Graham And McCain Are Wrong About Military Detention for Dzhokar Tsarnaev]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/22/why_graham_and_mccain_are_wrong_about_military_detention_for_dzhokar_tsarnaev_118061.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain were'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' quick out of the box last night'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in declaring that the Obama administration should hold Dzhokar Tsarnaev in military detention for his role in the Boston bombing:
Now that the suspect is in custody, the last thing we should want is for him to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[&quot;It Is Very Important the Remaining Suspect Be Taken Alive&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/04/19/it_is_very_important_the_remaining_suspect_be_taken_alive_118038.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One quick thought on the unfolding situation in the Boston suburbs...where one of the Boston Marathon bombing'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' suspects'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is dead and the other is on murderous rampage: It is very important that the remaining suspect be taken alive.
The'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' New York Times'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has identified the two suspects...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[KSM's Dispensable Trial]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031702844.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Benjamin Wittes</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration and its critics are locked in a standoff over whether to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the other alleged Sept. 11 conspirators in a military commission or in federal court. Both sides are busily ignoring the obvious solution: Don't bother trying them at...]]></description>
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