9/11 Case Motions Hearing: June 19 Session
Despite the lack of any hearings in the Bradley Manning trial today, your correspondents are still working out of Burba Cottage at Fort Meade for our third day of CCTV-broadcasted coverage of pre-trial hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al. We are scheduled to start (presumably with testimony from former GTMO commanding officer Rear Admiral David Woods) at 0900.
We'll link to individual posts below as usual, but you can also catch them on our Events Coverage page.
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Despite the lack of any hearings in the Bradley Manning trial today, your correspondents are still working out of Burba Cottage at Fort Meade for our third day of CCTV-broadcasted coverage of pre-trial hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al. We are scheduled to start (presumably with testimony from former GTMO commanding officer Rear Admiral David Woods) at 0900.
We'll link to individual posts below as usual, but you can also catch them on our Events Coverage page. Read our coverage of Monday's hearing here, and Tuesday's hearing here.
6/19 Motions Session #1: Last Words on ICRC Reports
6/19 Motions Session #2: Another Day, Another Admiral
6/19 Motions Session #3: Fits and Starts
6/19 Motions Session #4: The MCA 2009 and Congress's Intent
6/19 Motions Session #5: How the Woods Order Worked
6/19 Motions Hearing #6: Woods' Words
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.
