Today's Headlines and Commentary
In ongoing coverage of the rapid increase in the use of drones in warfare, National Defense Magazine reports on the effect this expansion will have on data use and management.
Richard Norton-Taylor of the Guardian writes on the UK Supreme Court's decision to ban the use of secret evidence by intelligence se
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In ongoing coverage of the rapid increase in the use of drones in warfare, National Defense Magazine reports on the effect this expansion will have on data use and management.
Richard Norton-Taylor of the Guardian writes on the UK Supreme Court's decision to ban the use of secret evidence by intelligence services. Read more about this decision from the Guardian's legal affairs correspondent Owen Bowcott here, and from The Independent here.
The European Commission has offered proposals regarding U.S. tracking financial information in Europe of terrorists, reports the New York Times.
On the Al Jazeera web site, Ramzi Kassem writes on what the treatment of Warsame has demonstrated about the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies.
Elias Groll of Politico reports on the CIA's fake vaccination program to confirm bin Laden's presence in Abbattabad.
The New York Times continues coverage on the impact of Ahmed Wali Karzai's death.
For more news and analysis links, see Today’s Terrorism News over at the CenterLine. Also, for those of you on Twitter, Lawfare's Twitter feed is now tweeting not only links to Lawfare posts but links to other interesting law and security-related articles.
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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