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'''Lawfare Group''' is a radical group of [[leftist]] lawyers in [[Washington, D.C.]] that, according to its website, operate in "that nebulous zone in which actions taken or contemplated to protect the nation interact with the nation’s laws and legal institutions."<ref>https://www.lawfareblog.com/about-lawfare-brief-history-term-and-site</ref> Its founder is [[Benjamin Wittes]] and is associated with the [[Brookings Institution]]. It sends out a daily newsletter called the [[Lawfareblog]].
'''Lawfare Group''' is a radical group of [[leftist]] lawyers in [[Washington, D.C.]] that, according to its website, operate in "that nebulous zone in which actions taken or contemplated to protect the nation interact with the nation’s laws and legal institutions."<ref>https://www.lawfareblog.com/about-lawfare-brief-history-term-and-site</ref> Its founder is [[Benjamin Wittes]] and is associated with the [[Brookings Institution]]. It sends out a daily newsletter called the [[Lawfareblog]].
During the [[Obama administration]] the Lawfare group:
During the [[Obama administration]] the Lawfare group:<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/09/15/lawfare-group-begins-delegitimizing-supreme-court/</ref>
*(1) weaponized the [[IRS scandal|IRS for political targeting]];
*(1) weaponized the [[IRS scandal|IRS for political targeting]];
*(2) weaponized the DOJ and FBI for political targeting;
*(2) weaponized the DOJ and FBI for political targeting;
*(5) delegitimize [[DHS]], Border Patrol and [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE);
*(5) delegitimize [[DHS]], Border Patrol and [[Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE);
*(6) delegitimize Justice [[Brett Kavanaugh]] and any institution or office that would now be removing or overturning their former Lawfare constructs;
*(6) delegitimize Justice [[Brett Kavanaugh]] and any institution or office that would now be removing or overturning their former Lawfare constructs;
*(7) hired on as staff to House Judiciary Committee chairman [[Jerry Nadler]]'s impeachment probe.
*(7) hired on as staff to House Judiciary Committee chairman [[Jerry Nadler]]'s impeachment probe.<ref>https://t.co/fd7sTncm3Z</ref>
The '''Lawfare Alliance'''<ref>https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/09/13/mccabes-lawfare-alliance-working-with-media-allies-to-frame-defense/</ref> includes: [[James Comey]], former FBI legal counsel [[James Baker (DOJ)]], Comey’s [[leak]]ing buddie [[Daniel Richman]]; former DOJ-NSD lawyer [[David Laufman]] (who also represented [[Monica McLean]], [[Christine Blasey Ford]]’s FBI bestie and narrative engineer friend), Deputy AG [[Sally Yates]], FBI lead agent [[Peter Strzok]], FBI counsel [[Lisa Page]]; Obama administration lawyer Norm Eisen; criminal defense attorney Barry Berke; former SDNY U.S. Attorney Daniel Goldman; Mueller lead [[Andrew Weissmann]] and the [[Mueller team]] of lawyers, all of them -and more- are connected to the [[Lawfare group]]; and this network provides the sounding board for all of the weaponized approaches, including the various new legal theories we saw outlined within the Weissmann-Mueller Report, and a host of current and former FBI and DOJ foot-soldiers.
[[Fusion GPS]] is part of the Lawfare network as a distribution hub for research information needed by the journalists who are writing on behalf of the Lawfare need. Ezra Klein’s “[[Journo-List]]”; the email group of 400+ reporters for multiple media outlets who collectively collaborated on stories.
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