I Have to Ask

I Have to Ask: The Benjamin Wittes Edition

The writer and national security expert on how to decipher the Mueller investigation.

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Benjamin Wittes is a writer, a national security expert, and the editor in chief of Lawfare. In a wide-ranging conversation with Isaac Chotiner, he discusses how to read the tea leaves of the Mueller investigation, why people are too critical of James Comey, and why even the Trump administration hasn’t changed his (positive) opinion of the national security state.

Email: ask@slate.com
Twitter: @IHaveToAskPod

Podcast production by Max Jacobs.