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Stewart Baker has been blogging about the failure of the Senate to find common ground on cybersecurity issues, and now the Washington Post editorial board writes on its displeasure over the failure to pass a bill before the August recess.
Carlo Munoz at The Hill has the latest on that bill aimed at cracking down on national security leaks. It seems that the Senate Intelligence Committee is contemplating softening penalties for leaking classified information, after it inserted and approved that language.
Read the latest details about the man who opened fire in the Wisconsin Sikh temple yesterday at TIME's Battleland blog and The Hill.
Shortly after the suicide bombing that killed 45 people in Yemen, two drone strikes targeted Al Qaeda positions in southern Yemen, writes AFP.
And a bombing in Kabul killed at least eight people, Matthew Rosenberg at the New York Times reports.
Despite the news last week that two high-ranking officials in the Afghanistan Ministries of the Interior and Defense were fired, the U.S. Army Lt. Gen. in charge of NATO in Afghanistan is confident that the change in leadership won't affect the NATO withdrawal. Alissa Rubin at the Times reports.
David Axe assures us over at Wired that Russia's drones are two decades behind the U.S.
The U.S. Navy is testing out its own drones in the Narragansett Bay, reports Michael Melia at Bloomberg Businessweek.
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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.
