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In the Washington Post over the weekend, Peter Finn and Del Quentin Wilber survey the evolving legal landscape that is being created in Guantanamo detainee cases, complete with a quotation from Ben.
The Eurasia Review has this Andy Worthington op-ed on the subject. He argues that the judges deciding Guantanamo cases will keep the detention center open indefinitely.
This New York Times editorializes on the NDAA issues Ben has been writing obsessively about, concluding that,
The peddlers of fear and the phony tough-on-terrorism crowd have dominated the national security debate for too long. The president must step in and stop this march toward endless war and the perpetual undermining of American constitutional values.The Miami Herald reports on the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review's finding that Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, received "full and fair trial" at Guantanamo, and on its upholding of the military's use of separate courts to prosecute foreigners. Read all 86 pages of this ruling here. Last Friday's votes in the House on two competing resolutions regarding U.S. intervention in Libya failed. Over at the Politico, Jonathan Allen and Seung Min Kim cover the story. The New York Times reports that DHS will be unveiling today a new system of voluntary guidelines to help strengthen computer and internet infrastructure against hacking. For more news and analysis links, see Today’s Terrorism News over at the CenterLine.
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.
