The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the departure of Wells Bennett, our long-time managing editor. Given Wells’s work writing and editing Lawfare’s posts, contributing to critical original Lawfare investigations, producing serious legal scholarship, and facilitating a friendly, combative office culture at Lawfare, perhaps it’s fair to say that “all’s Wells that ends wells”--whatever that may mean.

As Wells leaves us, however, Lawfare recently added several new contributors--announced this week by Ben. While they won’t be unfamiliar to regular readers, we are excited to welcome Naz Modirzadeh, Nicholas Weaver, and Andrew Woods to what ACLU lawyer Jameel Jaffer once derisively termed "the Lawfare Clubhouse."

Ben also shared the “'Fond Fair Wells' Edition of Rational Security. Ben was joined by Quinta Jurecic and Shane Harris in a discussion of the Intercept’s “Drone Papers,” Obama’s moral muse, and of course, the departure of Wells Bennett.