Constitution Day Event at Georgetown on Surveillance Law
I was honored to moderate a panel at Georgetown Law on Constitution Day, entitled "A Constitutional Conversation: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in a Digital Era."
The panel, composed of Georgetown Law Professors Carrie Cordero, Laura Donohue, and Marty Lederman, focused on the FISA surveillance programs leaked by Edward Snowden and described in recently-declassified FISA materials, in particular the business records metadata collection program.
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I was honored to moderate a panel at Georgetown Law on Constitution Day, entitled "A Constitutional Conversation: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in a Digital Era."
The panel, composed of Georgetown Law Professors Carrie Cordero, Laura Donohue, and Marty Lederman, focused on the FISA surveillance programs leaked by Edward Snowden and described in recently-declassified FISA materials, in particular the business records metadata collection program. The panelists discussed the history of FISA and the FISA Amendments Act, the constitutionality of the business records and upstream collection programs, and the need for public debate about the government's surveillance programs.
Here is Georgetown Law's summary of the event.
A big thank you to the three Georgetown student groups, the American Constitution Society, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Security Law Society, for organizing the event and for this Constitution mug, which will be sharing caffeine-delivery duty with my Lawfare mug here at Brookings.
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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