FBI Names James Baker As GC

FBI Director James Comey has selected Bridgewater Associates, LP associate general counsel James A. Baker as the agency’s GC. From 2001 to 2007, Baker served as counsel for intelligence policy and head of the former Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR), which later became part of DOJ’s National Security Division. In this position, he provided the attorney general, the U.S. intelligence community, and the White House with legal and policy advice on a range of national security issues and conducted oversight of the intelligence community, including the FBI, on behalf of the attorney general. Baker was assistant general counsel for national security at Verizon Business. He then returned to DOJ, and from 2009 to 2011, served as an associate deputy attorney general working on a range of national security issues, including cyber security.