Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Department of State is indirectly financing private security firms to train African soldiers to fight al Shabab in Somalia, reports the New York Times.
The Washington Post has this editorial which presses the U.S.
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The Department of State is indirectly financing private security firms to train African soldiers to fight al Shabab in Somalia, reports the New York Times.
The Washington Post has this editorial which presses the U.S. to not hand over Ali Mussa Daqduq to Iraqi authorities, because of its record of releasing dangerous suspects, sub-standard security measures in its prisons, and "spotty" record of prosecutions.
Umar Patek, who was captured in Abbottabad in January and has been held by Pakistani authorities since then, was extradited and has arrived in Indonesia. He is a major figure in Jemmah Islamiyah, Al Qaeda's Indonesian affiliate, and a suspect in the deadly Bali bombing. The Times has the story, as does the Post.
The 11th commander of the Guantanamo detention center has been named, reports the Miami Herald. Rear Admiral David B. Woods has this honor.
The so-called ringleader of the Abu Ghraib prison abuses, Charles A. Graner, Jr., was released from a prison in Kansas over the weekend for good behavior (he was sentenced to 10 years, but served only 6 and 1/2). Iraqis, it seems, are not pleased, as Michael Schmidt at the Times reports.
Naser Jason Abdo, a 21-year old soldier, was indicted yesterday in connection with a plot to bomb Fort Hood soldiers. The AP has the story.
Over at the Times, Suzanne Daley writes on the trend in Europe to back privacy rights on the internet. The Spanish government has ordered Google to stop indexing information about 90 individuals who filed complaints with Spain's Data Protection Agency.
The Economist covers the arrest of key figures in LulzSec, and the search for members of Anonymous, two hacking groups believed to be responsible for many of the recent attacks on government agencies and organizations around the world.
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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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