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District Court Judgment in Alsabri Affirmed

Raffaela Wakeman
Friday, April 27, 2012, 10:22 AM
The D.C. Circuit Court has affirmed the judgment of the District Court in Alsabri v. Obama.

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The D.C. Circuit Court has affirmed the judgment of the District Court in Alsabri v. Obama. The per curiam judgment in his case before Senior Circuit Judge Ginsburg and Circuit Judges  Garland and Kavanagh has been filed and is available here, but the opinion itself remains classified. Read the briefs in this case here and here, and check out Douglas Cox's analysis of the redactions in the briefs here.

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.

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