Lawfare (website)

Lawfare was founded as a blog in September 2010 by Benjamin Wittes (a former editorial writer for The Washington Post), Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith, and University of Texas at Austin law professor Robert Chesney. == Coverage of the first Donald Trump presidency ==

Lawfare coverage of intelligence and legal matters related to the Trump administration has brought the website significant increases in readership and national attention. Executive Order 13769 In January 2017 President Donald Trump tweeted "LAWFARE" and quoted a line from one of its posts that criticized the reasoning in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that blocked Trump's first refugee-and-travel ban. The Lawfare piece called the ban "incompetent malevolence". Trump tweeted the excerpt minutes after the line was quoted on Morning Joe. Wittes also provided a 25-minute interview to PBS NewsHour on the same subject. According to him, Trump's hug "disgusted" Comey. Wittes said Comey was not expecting a hug, adding "It was bad enough there was going to be a handshake." == Reception ==

Columnist David Ignatius described Lawfare as "one of the most fair-minded chroniclers of national security issues". The website has been criticized by attorney and journalist Glenn Greenwald. He said it has a "courtier Beltway mentality" devoted to "serving, venerating and justifying the acts of those in power". ==References==