Today's Headlines and Commentary
Afghan president Hamid Karzai is demanding that the U.S. hand over control of the Parwan detention facility to the Afghan government, because a politically-appointed commission found "many cases of violations of the Afghan Constitution and other applicable laws of the country, the relevant international conventions and human rights" there.
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Afghan president Hamid Karzai is demanding that the U.S. hand over control of the Parwan detention facility to the Afghan government, because a politically-appointed commission found "many cases of violations of the Afghan Constitution and other applicable laws of the country, the relevant international conventions and human rights" there. Read Matthew Rosenberg's story in the New York Times here, Kevin Seiff's story in the Washington Post here, The Telegraph's story here, and the AFP's coverage by Usman Sharifi here.
NPR's Dina Temple-Raston has this report on All Things Considered on the significance of the KSM trial, including comments from Senator Lindsay Graham, Matthew Waxman and Raha Wala.
The Al Qaeda Kurdish Battalion is one of the latest additions to the State Department's Specially Designated Global Terrorists lists. As such, their U.S. assets will be frozen and Americans will be prohibited from conducting business with the group. Read the Reuters story here, and the State Department's announcement here.
Here are a few stories covering President Obama's new defense strategy announcement: Reuters, Forbes, and Wired's Danger Room. Today's New York Times' editorial is also focused on the administration's new defense strategy.
Ethan Bronner at the Times reports that Israel is altering its rules regarding prisoner exchanges, after it exchanged more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for one Israeli soldier being held by Hamas. Meanwhile, over in Syria, Avaaz, a human rights group, has found that over 37,000 individuals are being detained, while more than 600 individuals have been tortured and died since the beginning of the uprising. The statistics can't be confirmed.
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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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