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Years ago, while working in national security, I baked a cake for a friend& #39;s birthday. That person was a Middle East analysts. So naturally, I made him an Al-Awlaki being droned cake.
Ben liked the cake so much he put it on the website . (The picture is no longer on the site, but you can see the link here.) https://www.lawfareblog.com/drone-strike-cake">https://www.lawfareblog.com/drone-str...
Unfortunately, Rolling Stone Magazine decided to use my poor-taste fondant creation as an example of Lawfare& #39;s moral turpitude. So a cake with my name on it, was being used in a major magazine to cast aspersion. Normally, that would be hilarious... https://www.lawfareblog.com/rolling-stone-doesnt-lawfares-day-hill">https://www.lawfareblog.com/rolling-s...
...but here I was, with my security clearance, working for an organization that does not exactly love this kind of publicity, in Rolling Stone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ux3-a9RE1Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
And now I had to tell my boss that a cake I had made for a fellow employee was now on a blog and being held up as an example of how distasteful a bunch of American lawyers who testified to the US Congress are. That went... not great.
I then had to panic-email Lawfare and ask them to take my name off of the photos. Since that day, back in 2013, I have had to live in the shadows. But now, armed with truth, justice and the Canadian (?) way (or at least tenure I can say for the world to hear:
I am the baker of hard national security choices. https://www.lawfareblog.com/baker-hard-national-security-choices-strikes-again">https://www.lawfareblog.com/baker-har...
Oh, and as a final ending to the story - Rolling Stone called the cake "distasteful". This, naturally, is fake news. It was delicious.
