Georgetown Prof Questioned About Exempt Org ‘War Gaming’

a) Please provide a full list of TIP members, staff, consultants, and anyone who interacted with the project during its period of operation. Various public reports have identified over 100 participants but only 15 names have been published. Please list any TIP participants who held an active United States government security clearances and building passes at the time the project was in operation. List any participating institutions, programs, and individuals who received or participated in any active, pending, or anticipated federal salary, contract, grant, or fee during the duration of the TIP project. Please list the employers of any TIP participant, specifically to the extent the employers are funded by congressionally appropriated funds. Please list any participating institutions or individuals indirectly subsidized by the federal government through tax-deductible charitable contributions. Please list any participants who have passed, or anticipate passing, the bar to appear before federal courts. Please list any professors/instructors who teach students at federal expense, and who teach students for the purpose of working in the federal government either directly or under contract. I am seeking to gain a fulsome understanding of your 2020 war-gaming project, its work, and its conclusions.

b) Please provide all transcripts, audio, video, Zoom, digital, and any and all records and recordings of TIP's meetings, from its first communications to its most recent personal, virtual, or hybrid gatherings, inclusive of any and such encounters of any size. If you have a specific contract with Zoom, please provide this contract or specifics.

c) Please provide a complete list of the venues and meeting locations for any and all TIP and TIP-related meetings or gatherings as described in the above section.

d) Please provide a specific and detailed list of any and all federally owned, operated, leased, funded and/or subsidized assets and/or any such assets or locations used by any and/or all TIP participants in connection with TIP’s activities without exception. In addition, list any participating institutions, programs, and individuals who have received or participated in any active, pending, or anticipated federal salary, contract, grant, or fee, during the duration of the TIP project. Also, please list the employers of every TIP participant, to the extent the employers are funded by congressionally appropriated funds.

e) One of the publicly identified participants of TIP was Major General (Ret.) Paul D. Eaton.² In 2021, General Eaton published an op-ed with two other retired flag officers in which they stated that a similar wargaming exercise to TIP should be replicated with regard to the military and making sure that it is under control.³ Please identify any active duty military or Department of Defense officials with whom you or anyone at Georgetown Law Center or your affiliates have contacted for the 2020 TIP effort and any present project.

f) Recently, Professor Mary B. McCord, the Executive Director of the Georgetown University School of Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protections (ICAP), said “we’re already starting to put together a team to think through the most damaging types of things that he [Trump] might do so that we’re ready to bring lawsuits if we have to.”⁴ Please define if Professor McCord and her colleagues are conducting this hyper partisan activity under the auspices of ICAP — an entity which is described as a “non-partisan institute within Georgetown University Law Center” on the ICAP website. In your response to this inquiry, please articulate if any current faculty or staff at ICAP⁵ participated in TIP in any way and the nature of projects resembling TIP that are currently being conducted through the ICAP.

g) Please explain if you are involved in the project described by NBC News as “loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmakers . . . quietly devising plans” to suppress the Article Two provisions defining presidential control of the military.⁶ As you may recall, in your 2017 book you wrote about these foundational norms of civilian control over the American military and how “it’s time to toss them aside.”⁷ As mentioned, Mary McCord intimated that ICAP is helping lead this effort — and as Associate Dean for Centers and Institutes, you are McCord’s supervisor. I am interested to know of your involvement in this group “quietly devising plans” to change or violate the US Constitution. Please also list participants in the project referenced in the NBC News article.