Today's Headlines and Commentary
While the compromise on the debt ceiling has dominated the news over the last few days, there has been a lot of coverage of interest too.
As Ben noted here, the Obama administration invoked the state secrets privilege in seeking dismissal of a lawsuit by Muslims against the FBI.
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While the compromise on the debt ceiling has dominated the news over the last few days, there has been a lot of coverage of interest too.
As Ben noted here, the Obama administration invoked the state secrets privilege in seeking dismissal of a lawsuit by Muslims against the FBI. Josh Gerstein at Politico has the story.
NPR staff write about the near-term uses of drones, while al Jazeera English's Muhammad Idrees Ahmad reports on the "quest for justice and transparency" in the use of drones in warfare.
Andrea Elliot at the New York Times writes on the anti-Shariah movement in the United States, focusing specifically on who it calls its champion, David Yerushalmi, a Hasidic Jewish lawyer in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
A New York Times editorial over the weekend advocated for the United States to process the 62,000 or so visa applications from Iraqis.
The AP is reporting that Scotland Yard is seeking to gain access to Guantanamo detainees. According to the article, an MI6 officer allegedly witnessed abuse by U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Ben discussed this briefly last week.
A federal judge has ruled that New York Times reporter James Risen does not need to identify his sources regarding a CIA program focused on undermining Iran's nuclear program. Josh Gerstein at Politico covered the story over the weekend, and Steve Aftergood has posted some of the key documents over at Secrecy News.
David Ignatius wrote over the weekend on the question of what to do with Ali Mussa Daqduq, the Lebanese Hezbollah operative captured in March 2007 in Basra and suspected of plotting a kidnapping that resulted in the death of five American soldiers. He is currently a prisoner in Camp Cropper, a detention facility near Baghdad, and the U.S. must close Camp Cropper by the end of 2011. Most detainees will be handed over to Iraqi forces.
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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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