<p>I made recommendations to Kathryn Ruemmler, WH Counsel, on current UAV operations in Pakistan. It’s a controversial topic–and not to mention, classified–so I took a risk. Yeah, we’ve gotten crap from the Security Council about its legality. Yeah, we had to get out of Shamsi on account of Pakistan. And yeah, every time this issue comes up, there seems to be an interesting Pentagon-DOJ-WH-State powerplay. But I think we really got it right in Harold Koh’s ASIL statement (which defends President Obama’s policy). It’s smart policy. </p>
<p>Sorry for the semi-rant, but like ItsDanielYall, I’m passionate about the issue.</p>
<p>With a username like openpoetry, I wouldn’t have expected such an intense topic. As for me, I wrote to Domestic Policy about No Child Left Behind, the vague definition of parental involvement within the bill, and suggestions on how to improve it that included the state and local school boards while respecting the differences between states.</p>
<p>Do you think there’s a chance we won’t find out until April like the last round? I don’t know how people do that… Most internships will need to be accepted by March!</p>
<p>Banannez, don’t know but I have a feeling that’s likely to be the case. Very worried too, but more than willing to stick it out for a chance to work for the WH. I’m going to just take it one day at a time and see what happens…</p>
<p>Working on my fall application as we speak! I am not in school but applying under the “must be a veteran who has been out of the military no longer then two years”. I am currently in Afghanistan but i’ll be out by the time the fall internship rolls around.</p>
<p>Thanks openpoetry for the NCLB reading! I agree with Banannez, the positivity on this board is awesome. As for the program monitoring the forum, I believe it because I know of a State Department program I participated in that admitted to reading another forum about it’s program. As long as people remain respectful/positive I think we’ll all be OK! </p>
<p>We probably won’t hear anything until mid-late February. It seems like the Notification date is pretty accurate, according to previous applicants.</p>
<pre><code>Some of us still haven’t gotten the initial email you got over a week ago.That’s what I was referring to, the initial, “we’ll notify you by february 20th” email is what I’m still waiting on.
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<p>Ahhh. Gotcha. Well, it’s a rolling basis, so hopefully soon. If some still haven’t gotten it, there must have been a lot of people who applied! How exciting :)</p>