Raffaela Wakeman works at Brookings and focuses on law, American politics, and governance issues. She graduated with a B.S. and M.S. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009, and wrote her Master’s thesis on electoral design in the Middle East. She is currently a 1L at Georgetown University Law Center.
Back in March, we shared the appellant’s brief in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals case of American Civil Liberties Union v. CIA. The Central Intelligence Agency has filed its respondent brief in that case. The CIA summarizes its … Read more »
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The Hill’s Defcon blog has the scoop: in votes today regarding the rules for detention under the FY2013 NDAA, the House rejected the Smith-Amash amendment in a 238-182 largely party-line vote (19 Democrats voted against it, and 19 Republicans voted … Read more »
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Luckily for me, The Hill stayed up late to … Read more »
We’ve already commented on the court ruling in the Christopher Hedges case over the detention provisions of the NDAA: Steve here, Ben here, and Bobby here. Reuters reports on it here.
Linda Greenhouse’s New York Times … Read more »
We noted last week that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals denied Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul’s petition for an initial hearing in that court en banc. The government has now filed its respondent brief in the case … Read more »
The unofficial transcript from May 3rd’s oral argument in Hamdan v. USA in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals before Chief Circuit Judge David Sentelle and Circuit Judges Douglas Ginsburg and Brett Kavanaugh, is now available. You can read it here… Read more »
The debate over the Smith-Amash amendment to the NDAA continues. Yesterday, we posted a letter written by former administration attorneys general criticizing that amendment, among others. Today, it’s twenty-seven retired admirals and generals writing in support of the Smith-Amash Amendment … Read more »
Over at DefCon Hill, Jeremy Herb shares a letter written by former Attorneys General Edwin Meese III and Michael Mukasey and former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff to House Armed Services Committee Buck McKeon criticizing the various amendments that … Read more »
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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… Read more »
Just in from the Congressional Research Service, this report compares the rights of defendants tried in military commissions to those tried in federal criminal court. Presumably because of the commencement of the military commission case against the five alleged plotters … Read more »
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a District Court judgment in favor of the National Security Agency in a case brought by the Electronic Privacy Information Center under the Freedom of Information Act. The … Read more »
Another man wearing an Afghan uniform opened fire on NATO troops today, killing one. Graham Bowley at the New York Times reports,
Josh Rogin at Foreign Policy has the scoop on the U.S. stance on the potential release … Read more »
As the Senate prepares to take up cybersecurity legislation, NPR‘s Morning Edition has done a few more segments on it. Tom Gjelten discusses the briefing that has CEOs shivering in their boots, and this morning he discusses how cybersecurity … Read more »
Remember all that concern for our infrastructure that supporters of cybersecurity legislation have been mentioning in their pleas to Congress to get something done? Well it looks like computer networks that are managing major natural gas pipelines have been attacked. … Read more »
