Represented the United States before the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Conducted oversight of the United States Intelligence Community. Co-led a team of forty attorneys responsible for oversight of a major intelligence collection program. Overhauled and modernized oversight of that program, including developing custom software to improve efficiency and quality of oversight.
Assistant Attorney General Award for Outstanding New Initiative (2019)
Drafted orders and opinions, wrote bench memos to prepare the judge for oral argument.
Drafted orders and conducted legal research. Prepared bench memos and assisted in docket management.
See http://mappingmilitants.stanford.edu. As a research assistant, analyzed the interactions among terrorist organizations in Iraq. As the sole web developer on the project, created and maintained over three years interactive software to illustrate the evolutions and relationships among terrorist organizations in PHP and MySQL. Built an online editing system to allow research team members with no computer science background to create profiles of militant organizations and create interactive timelines to demonstrate relationships between them. Managed feedback from the research team and incorporated it into the web software. As a teaching assistant, advised undergraduate honors students on writing theses related to international security.
67 Stan. L. Rev. 1173. https://www.stanfordlawreview.org/print/article/keep-it-secret-keep-it-safe/
with Matthew Rojansky. http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/nuclear-challenge-pakistan-and-iran-part1/