Today's Headlines and Commentary
Bobby shared yesterday the news that John Brennan has announced (courtesy of Josh Gerstein at the Politico) that the Obama administration would not send terrorist suspects to Guantanamo moving forward.
Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, the Somali terrorist suspect who was detained on a naval ship and questioned, appeared in civilian court yesterday in New York City.
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Bobby shared yesterday the news that John Brennan has announced (courtesy of Josh Gerstein at the Politico) that the Obama administration would not send terrorist suspects to Guantanamo moving forward.
Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, the Somali terrorist suspect who was detained on a naval ship and questioned, appeared in civilian court yesterday in New York City. Colin Moynihan at the New York Times has the story, which Ben commented on this morning.
National Journal's Chris Strohm notes how Warsame brought back into focus the Obama administration's detention policy, or lack thereof.
A 1,400-page report resulting from the British inquiry into the death of Baha Mousa, a 26-year old Iraqi hotel worker, found that his death was “an appalling episode of serious gratuitous violence” inflicted by a group of soldiers from a unit of the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment. John F. Burns at the Times summarizes the report's findings.
A credible bomb threat in New York City or Washington has been reported. Read Scott Shane's story at the Times, and Jonathan Allen & Josh Gerstein's piece at the Politico.
Intelligence Squared hosted a debate on whether to end the war on terror. Asad Hashim at al Jazeera reported on the debate, which pitted Peter Bergen and Juliette Kayyem against Michael Hayden and Richard Falkenrath.
The UK human rights group Reprieve alleges that the Somalian government hosts a detention center that the CIA uses to interrogate terrorist suspects. Somalia's prime minister denies the allegation, reports BBC News.
A computer security break at Stanford Hospital resulted in 20,000 emergency room patients' records being posted on a commercial website. The Times' Kevin Sack reports on the breach.
Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced a bill to protect citizens' private information online. Nick Bilton at Bits blog on the Times summarizes the bill. Says Blumenthal:
“The goal of the proposed law is essentially to hold accountable the companies and entities that store personal information and personal data and to deter data breaches...[w]hile looking at past data breaches, I’ve been struck with how many are preventable.”Follow us on Twitter for interesting law and security-related articles, and email me noteworthy articles that I may have missed at wakeman.lawfare@gmail.com.
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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