The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Lawfare, happy birthday to you. This week marked the blog's third birthday, as Ben noted.
Another milestone, this one flagged by Ritika: happy 500th "Today's Headlines and Commentary" to the roundup team, including yours truly!
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Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Lawfare, happy birthday to you. This week marked the blog's third birthday, as Ben noted.
Another milestone, this one flagged by Ritika: happy 500th "Today's Headlines and Commentary" to the roundup team, including yours truly! Who would have thought when I launched the feature oh-so-long-ago that it would become a mandatory, daily occurrence.
Is your head spinning from the comprehensive, detailed Syria posts on Lawfare? Yesterday I collected our Syria entries to date---including those from this very busy, analysis-stuffed week---right here.
Paul wrote one of the week's few non-Syria posts---on the Snowden fallout, of course, and the NSA's access to encryption keys. Ashley also wrote about the Snowden saga, and about the significance of deals whereby states agree not to spy on one another.
The DNI released its biannual recidivism report on former Guantanamo detainees; check it.
Those longing for the days of the Lawfare Drone Smackdown can quench their thirst with this video (which Ben posted) of a low-tech drone smackdown.
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And that was the week that was.
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.
