9/11 Case Motions Hearing: August 22 Session
The audience at Burba Cottage has shrunk slightly. But your Lawfare correspondents are ready to begin Day Four of this week's pre-trial motions hearings in United States v.
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The audience at Burba Cottage has shrunk slightly. But your Lawfare correspondents are ready to begin Day Four of this week's pre-trial motions hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al. If you were too busy paying attention to the goings-on in the Bradley Manning court martial and the recently-declassified FISA materials, you can read coverage from Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday to get in the know.
Today's posts will be linked to here, and added to the Event Coverage page.
8/22 Motions Session #1: Dislike of "Piecemeal Litigation"
8/22 Motions Session #2: What is Contraband?
8/22 Motions Session #3: AE018 Wrap-Up
8/22 Motions Session #4: Docket Clean-Up
8/22 Motions Session #5: Ex-Button Pusher
8/22 Motions Session #6: Recess is Over and … Let’s Recess
8/22 Motions Session #7: Is the Convening Authority Constitutional?
8/22 Motions Session #8: Does the MCA Discriminate Unlawfully?
8/22 Motions Session #9: Define and Punish
Raffaela Wakeman is a Senior Director at In-Q-Tel. She started her career at the Brookings Institution, where she spent five years conducting research on national security, election reform, and Congress. During this time she was also the Associate Editor of Lawfare. From there, Raffaela practiced law at the U.S. Department of Defense for four years, advising her clients on privacy and surveillance law, cybersecurity, and foreign liaison relationships. She departed DoD in 2019 to join the Majority Staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she oversaw the Intelligence Community’s science and technology portfolios, cybersecurity, and surveillance activities. She left HPSCI in May 2021 to join IQT.
Raffaela received her BS and MS in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015, where she was recognized for her commitment to public service with the Joyce Chiang Memorial Award. While at the Department of Defense, she was the inaugural recipient of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s General Counsel Award for exhibiting the highest standards of leadership, professional conduct, and integrity.
Wells C. Bennett was Managing Editor of Lawfare and a Fellow in National Security Law at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Brookings, he was an Associate at Arnold & Porter LLP.
