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Not only are civil liberties groups opposed to the White House-endorsed cybersecurity bill, but they don't like the Republican-sponsored one that passed the House much either. Brendan Sasso at The Hill has the story.
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Not only are civil liberties groups opposed to the White House-endorsed cybersecurity bill, but they don't like the Republican-sponsored one that passed the House much either. Brendan Sasso at The Hill has the story. Meanwhile, Sasso and his colleague Andrew Feinberg tell us that this morning there is a bipartisan discussion among senators attempting to find common ground on the issue.
Joshua Foust argues over at The Atlantic that the U.S.'s current strategy in Yemen is not enough:
The challenge in Yemen is, ultimately, a political one: an illegitimate government struggling with multiple resistance and rebellion movements, in addition to a terrorist movement slowly making inroads into one of them. That's probably not a challenge that can be ultimately solved by sending in JSOC and firing a bunch of drones into the desert; it is a challenge that requires a comprehensive political, economic, and social framework for addressing the many facets of the problem. Of course, the U.S. also has diplomats in Yemen, and many policy and economic analysts back in Washington are working tirelessly on the country's problems. But the point is that terrorist-killing drones are not the answer.A notorious pirate base in Somalia has been attacked for the first time by EU forces, write Jeffrey Gettleman and Paul Geitner over at the New York Times. Marc Thiessen pleads in his Washington Post column today to not kill AQAP bomb-maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. Iran announced today that it has executed a man accused of being an Israeli spy, writes Alan Cowell at the New York Times. Gen. John Allen will be leaving his post in Afghanistan to lead the U.S. European Command, says Greg Jaffe at the Washington Post. Tom Bowman on Weekend Edition Saturday reported on the U.S.'s efforts to pass on responsibility for the fight in Afghanistan to the locals. Craig Whitlock at the Post tells us about the U.S. military's efforts to train African soldiers to fight al Qaeda in Somalia. For more interesting law and security-related articles, follow us on Twitter, visit the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law’s Security Law Brief, Fordham Law’s Center on National Security’s Morning Brief, and Fordham Law’s Cyber Brief. Email us noteworthy articles we may have missed at wakeman.lawfare@gmail.com and singh.lawfare@gmail.com.
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.
