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The Taliban has released a video that allegedly shows seventeen beheaded Pakistani soldiers.
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A light news day on the law-and-security front--so you can focus on the health care decision.
The Taliban has released a video that allegedly shows seventeen beheaded Pakistani soldiers. Jeremy Herb in The Hill reports.
Paul might be pessimistic about the future of cybersecurity legislation, but Senate Republicans are working hard to revamp the House-passed version to make it more amenable to those in that chamber. Brendan Sasso at The Hill has the story.
The American Civil Liberties Union has launched a new web feature: a "Torture Database" which holds over 100,000 documents from the Bush administration that chronicle the policies and practices of that administration's detention, rendition, and interrogation programs. Jurist shares the news.
The Australian reports on a cheap new device designed to hijack drones.
Eli Lake of The Daily Beast spills the details on the Bosaso Central Prison, located in Somalia, where the U.S. has sent terrorist suspects. The Pentagon won't confirm how many prisoners it has sent there, but the prison warden told Lake sixteen prisoners were handed over by the U.S.
The AP has this brief story on a case brought by a detainee in Bagram Airfield challenging his confinement. As Wells reported yesterday, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled that he has no jurisdiction to hear his case.
The New York Times reports on the deaths of ten Afghan police officers in Herat Province at the hands of Taliban insurgents.
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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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