Today's Headlines and Commentary

Raffaela Wakeman
Thursday, June 23, 2011, 11:24 AM
A light news day today. William Saletan has a new Slate piece about the "new face of a faceless global war." The Washington Post has coverage of the prison break in Yemen reported yesterday. Charlie Savage and Thom Shanker report that there h

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A light news day today. William Saletan has a new Slate piece about the "new face of a faceless global war." The Washington Post has coverage of the prison break in Yemen reported yesterday. Charlie Savage and Thom Shanker report that there have been 30 drone strikes and 60 warplane strikes by the United States since it handed over control of the Libyan air war to NATO. Fareed Zakaria has a must-read on the radicalization of Pakistan's military in today's Washington Post. David Shipler has an op-ed to the New York Times today on recent developments in privacy law. For more news and analysis links, see Today’s Terrorism News over at the CenterLine.

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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