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No, there hasn't been absolutely no news relevant to Lawfare readers over the past few days. I've just been away. Here is a catch-up:
A Washington Post editorial, an LA Times editorial, and a Baltimore Sun editorial over the weekend each review the issues at hand in the Warsame case. Joseph Margulies mulls over why liberals aren't more bothered by the Obama administration's treatment of Warsame in a New Republic column.
In his new role as SecDef, Leon Panetta met with Hamid Karzai in Kabul over the weekend. Both the Times and the Post report on this meeting, as well as Panetta's progress assessment toward defeating al Qaeda.
Politico is reporting that Hamid Karzai's brother has been assassinated.
Three supposed drone strikes in Pakistan killed 38 militants in less than 12 hours, reports the AP (via The Guardian).
Human Rights Watch has just released a report calling for George W. Bush to be prosecuted by foreign governments for war crimes.
Mitch McConnell is taking a curious approach in his ongoing campaign to relocate two terrorist suspects from his home state of Kentucky to Guantanamo, citing the Casey Anthony trial as proof that American courts are not proper venues for terrorist trials.
The Sacramento Bee notes that the military combat photographer who was in a federal detention center for passport fraud has been freed on the condition that he return for his trial next week.
The father of American detainee John Walker Lindh defends his son's innocence in this lengthy piece in the Guardian.
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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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