For decades attorney Mark Zaid has represented a huge array of government whistleblowers, both Republican and Democrat. But his role in the case of a whistleblower at the center of the first Trump impeachment has put him in the crosshairs.
Earlier this month, The New York Post reported that President Donald Trump had allegedly revoked Zaid’s security clearances. He talked to the Click Here podcast about being part of the new president’s campaign of retribution.
The interview has been edited for clarity.
Click Here: You’re a bit of a fixture in the intelligence community and you’ve helped all kinds of whistleblowers… How did all that start?
Mark Zaid: When I came down to Washington, D.C. in 1993, I was searching for a job inside the U.S. government. I wanted to be in the Department of Justice or the State Department and handle international law issues — war crimes, terrorism, human rights work. But I couldn’t find a job, so I started my own law practice. And from the get go, I connected to a lawyer named Alan Gerson, who I knew from when I was in law school.
I had already worked with families of the victims of Pan Am Flight 103, the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, because I knew people who were on the flight, two people, two students who were a year behind me at school. So I had a lot of connections from the New York City area, because that's where most of the victims were from. Alan asked me to be part of his legal team, which was at the time him and me, to sue the government...
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