* Congress of the United States a ‘Wouse of Representatives 1 20a Sree fe. Gre 210 —reso Blashington, DE 20515-4317 . eae March 21,2024 Rosa Brooks Associate Dean for Centers and Institutes and Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy Georgetown University School of Law (600 New Jersey Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001 Dean Brooks, ‘Lam writing you regarding your publicly identified role as a founder and facilitator of what you named the “Transition Integrity Project” (TIP). As our nation prepares for the 2024 presidential election, the ‘work of TIP has been brought tomy attention as an intensely partisan exercise intended to sew distension and subversion regarding the American election system and the institution of the president of the United States. These objective are clearly apparent in your September 3, 2020 opinion piece in the ‘Washington Post titled “What's the worst that could happen?" Baseless accusations such as those made in the aforementioned piece, which was published before the frst vote was cas in the 2020 Presidential ‘general election, are harmful to public confidence in elections. Lam particularly concered by the activities of TIP in 2020, and any similar endeavor in advance of the 2024 election, beeause this exercise seems to have been administered adjacent to the Georgetown ‘University Law Center. As you know, Georgetown University operates asa $01(¢)(3) nonprofit ‘organization and receives hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding every year. It would be highly inappropriate fora university that relies on federal funding to conduct partisan politica activity intended to undermine a lawfully conducted election. Lam sooking to gain a comprehensive understanding of your 2020 war-gaming project, its work, and its ‘conclusions. At ths time, am writing to you with specific requests: 8) Please provide a full lst of TIP members, staf, 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 atthe time the project was in operation, Li participating institution, programs, and individuals who received or participated in any at ‘or anticipated federal salary, contract, grant, or fee during the duration of the TIP project. Please list the "woe ratinglonpos com ouloo/20200805rump-stay-inoc!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 lst any participants who have passed, or anticipate passing, the bar to appear before federal courts. Please list any professors/nstructors who teach stadens at federal expense, and wo teach students for the purpose of ‘working in the federal govemment either directly or under contract. Iam seeking to pain a fulsome understanding of your 2020 war-gaming project, is work, and its conclusions. by Please provide all transcripts, audi, video, Zoom, digital, and any and all records and recordings of ‘TIP’ meetings, from its frst communications to its most ecent persona, virtual or hybrid gatherings, inclusive of any and such encounters of any size. Ifyou have a specific contract with Zoom, please provide this contractor specifies. 6) Please provide a complete list ofthe venues and meeting locations for any and all TIP and THP-related ‘meetings or gatherings as described inthe above section. 4) 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 activities without exception. In adition, list any participating institutions, programs, and individuals who have received or participated in any active, pending, or anticipated federal salary, contrac, grant, ot fee, during the duration ofthe TIP project. Also, please list the ‘employers of every TIP participant, to the extent the employers are funded by congressionally appropriated funds, ©) One of the publicly identified participants of TIP was Major General (Ret) Paul D. Eaton? In 2021, General Eston published an op-ed with two other retired flag officers in which they stated that a similar ‘wargaming exercise o TIP should be replicated with regard to the military and making sure that it is Under control. Please identity any active duty military or Department of Defense officials with whom you or anyone at Georgetown Lav Center or your aflites have contacted for the 2020 TIP effort and any present project. 1) Recently, Professor Mary B. MeCord, the Executive Director ofthe Georgetown University School of Law's Institue 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." Please define if Professor MeCord and her colleagues are conducting this hyper partisan activity under the auspices of ICAP —an entity which is described as “non-partisan institute within Georgetown University Law Center” onthe ICAP website. In your response to this inquiry, please articulate if any current faulty or staff at ICAP participated in TIP in ‘any way and the nature of projects resembling TIP that are currently being condueted through the ICAP. 8) Please explain i you are involved in the project described by NBC News as “loose-knit network of public interest groups and lawmaker... quietly devising plans” to suppress the Article Two provisions * it om pouesons2/ias12802497 11686029314 5 ahinglonpest com opnins/2021/12/etonsagub-anderson-genera-iitary! “abenewscom/newsanpecnal 29159 Taw georgetown edueapoursean!Aefining presidental contcol ofthe military As you may reall 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,” As mentioned, Mary McCord intimated that ICAP is helping lead tis effort and as Associate Dean for Centers and Institutes, you are MeCord's supervisor. [am interested to know of your involvement in this group “yuielly devising plans” to change or violate the US Constitution, Pease also list participants in the project referenced inthe NBC News article. In closing, I advise you to preserve all work product and communications from the 2020 Transition Integrity Project war gaming exercise, I noticed that your website is no longer operational, and the report ‘of TIP's work is only found on other sites. My request for preservation of records includes al documents, electronic records of any kind including emails and texts, any videos or audio recordings of Your project and any other materials related to its work. | respectfully request your prompt response and compliance with these requests by close of business April 19, 2024, Instructions to send these materials will be included in an enclosure. Se Pete Sessions “Member of Congress ‘Adam Adler, Vice President & General Counsel, Georgetown University William Treanor, Dean of Georgetown University Law Center Jokin D, DeGioia, President of Georgetown University Members, Boatd of Trustees ® nbenewscomnewslampenat29189 * How Everything Became Wa. pp 362, Rosa Brooks, 2017