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A very light news day...
The FAA bill that the House passed has now been approved by the Senate as well, reports Keith Laing and Josiah Ryan at The Hill. It is a four-year extension bill, which means no more short-term fixes.
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A very light news day...
The FAA bill that the House passed has now been approved by the Senate as well, reports Keith Laing and Josiah Ryan at The Hill. It is a four-year extension bill, which means no more short-term fixes. The bill is on its way to the President and includes requirements for the FAA and DOT regarding integrating drones into the domestic airspace.
Declan Walsh at the New York Times writes about cases brewing in Pakistan against its Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate, the Pakistani government's spy agency. One of the cases, set for a hearing tomorrow, involves the state's Supreme Court order to produce seven suspected militants who have been held by the ISI since 2010 in court and to explain how four others mysteriously died in custody.
In the meantime, General James N. Mattis, who is in charge of CENTCOMM, will be meeting with the Pakistani Army's Chief of Staff Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in an effort to rebuld relations following the death of 24 Pakistani soldiers late last year. Eric Schmitt and Declan Walsh cover the story at the Times.
An Italian appeals court on Monday overturned Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri's conviction. Nasri was transferred from Guantanamo to Italy along with two other Tunisian prisoners over two years ago. The AP has the story.
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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.
