Publications

Published Scholarship:

• “Trump Special Master Review: Enter Dearie” in Lawfare, 2022.

• “Gaming Out the Two Major Paths Forward After Judge Grants Trump’s Request for a Special Master in Mar-a-Lago Case” in Law and Crime, 2022.

• “Multiple bites at the apple: The frequent problem of renewed motions for summary judgment” in Americans for Prosperity, 2022.

• “No, Former Presidents Cannot Assert Executive Privilege. At Least Not Meaningfully.” in Just Security, 2021.

• “For the Jan. 6 Committee to Succeed, This Guy Has to Go” in Daily Beast, 2021.

• “The MAGA Insurrection in the Capitol Created a Huge New National-Security Threat” in Daily Beast, 2021.

• “John Bolton Survived the Battle, But He Will Lose the War” in Law and Crime, 2020.

• “The federal government could punish employees for reading Bolton’s book” in Washington Post, 2020.

• “Here’s How John Bolton’s Lawyer Just Threw Him Under the Bus” in Daily Beast, 2020.

• “Trump and GOP Call to ID Whistleblower Exposes Glaring Gaps in Protections” in Just Security, 2019.

• “GOP ‘Storming’ of Secure Facility for Impeachment Proceedings: An Explainer” in Just Security, 2019.

• “How one secretive Justice Department office can sway the whole government” in Washington Post, 2019.

• “Intel Whistleblower Complaint Q&A Part 2: Constitutional Boogaloo” in Just Security, 2019.

• “Q&A on Whistleblower Complaint Being Withheld from Congressional Intelligence Committees” in Just Security, 2019.

• “Nuts and Bolts of the IG Report on Comey: Correcting Misconceptions” in Just Security, 2019.

• “Trump and the Demise of the Presidential Records Honor System” in Just Security, 2019.

• “President Trump’s Cronyism and Excesses Should Prompt Security Clearance Reform” in Just Security, 2019.

• “Attorney General Nominee Barr on Transparency: A Direct Answer? Or Misdirection?” in Just Security, 2019.

• “Trump’s Ability to Classify Mueller Report Is Greater Threat Than Executive Privilege” in Just Security, 2018.

• “Trump Declassifying Page, Ohr Records Will Have Broader Effects” in Just Security, 2018.

• “Security Clearance Records, FOIA, and Privacy: What Went Wrong for Abigail Spanberger” in Just Security, 2018.

• “The Case for Legislative Security Clearance Reform” in Just Security, 2018.

• “Not All Security Clearance Fights Are Political” in Politico, 2018.

• “Why Trump’s Security-Clearance Threat Makes No Sense” in Politico, 2018.

• “What Everyone Gets Wrong About Kushner’s Clearance Fiasco” in Politico, 2018.

• “Trump Can Sue Bannon. Winning’s Another Matter” in Politico, 2018.

• “Jeff Sessions’ Attack on the Media Is Worse Than You Think” in Politico, 2017.

• “Our three-year saga to release 13 million pages of CIA secrets” in MuckRock, 2017.

• “The Need for a Perception-Based Model of Comparing Intelligence Communities: An Historical Case Study” in American Intelligence Journal, 2007.