Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade writes what she knows.
Barbara McQuade has a side gig -- columnist for the Daily Beast.
The former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan (which includes Detroit) and current professor at the University of Michigan Law School has been writing pieces for the website since June 2017, a few months after President Trump requested and received her resignation. McQuade had been appointed to the post by President Obama, and U.S. attorneys typically serve at the pleasure of the sitting president and attorney general, so the staff change was not out of the ordinary.
In the great tradition of "write what you know," McQuade has concentrated almost exclusively about the Mueller investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
Her latest piece, co-bylined with two colleagues, concentrates on the legal intricacies of the FISA warrant request released a few days ago, the one that sought surveillance on former Trump advisor Carter Page.
The three writers rebut the argument being pushed by right-leaning media, that the FISA warrant -- and the whole investigation, for that matter -- was predicated on the so-called Steele dossier, which many Trump supporters contend is tainted.
Give McQuade this: She explains complicated legal concepts clearly enough to be understood by lay people, and never once uses the phrase "p-- t---."
Find her archive by searching her name at The Daily Beast home page.
