Benjamin Wittes quotes
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“Recommended additon to the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights: "A right to not have your data rise up and attack you."”
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“Asking journalists to denounce leaks because of their deleterious effects on the functioning of government is as hopeless as asking an airline to denounce jet fuel because of its impact on the environment.”
-- Benjamin WittesSource : "Why We Publish Leaks," Washington Post, 13 February 1998. The question is not whether the Post should "denounce" leaks-truly a red herring- but whether it will use leaks that put U.S. personnel in danger.
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“As a general matter, if the president wants to withdraw from a treaty, he simply gets to do that. And that's part of the powers of the office.”
-- Benjamin WittesSource : Source: www.npr.org
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“Comey really spent an enormous amount of energy in the period in which both he and Trump were in office trying to protect the FBI from political interference from the White House.”
-- Benjamin WittesSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Trump fired Jim Comey because the most dangerous thing in the world, if you are Donald Trump, is a person who tells the truth, is dogged, you can't control, and who is as committed as Comey is to the institutional independence of an organization that has the power to investigate you.”
-- Benjamin WittesSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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“When somebody promises to do something, you have to think about whether that's something that you would be willing to see happen because the powers are simply too vast.”
-- Benjamin WittesSource : "The First 100 Days: What Clinton And Trump Want To Get Done" by Scott Horsley, wrvo.org. October 27, 2016.
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“You know, you don't get to survive that long without making some compromises.”
-- Benjamin WittesSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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Source : Anatol Rapoport, Albert M. Chammah (1965). “Prisoner's Dilemma: A Study in Conflict and Cooperation”, p.5, University of Michigan Press
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“Bill Cunningham he knows fashion better than anybody.”
Source : "Alaïa's Not Lagerfeld's Biggest Fan" by Britt Aboutaleb, www.elle.com. June 23, 2011.
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