Benjamin Wittes

Benjamin Wittes (born November 5, 1969) is an American legal journalist and Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he is the Research Director in Public Law, and Co-Director of the Harvard Law School–Brookings Project on Law and Security. He works principally on issues related to American law and national security. Wittes cofounded the Lawfare Blog and is a member of the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National Security and Law. He was number 15 on the Politico 50 of 2017, described as "Bard of the Deep State". Early life and education Wittes was born in 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended a Jewish day school in New York City, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Oberlin College in 1990. Career After a stint covering the United States Department of Justice and federal regulatory agencies for Legal Times, he worked as an editorial writer for The Washington Post, concentrating on legal affairs from 1997 to 2006.