Jim Baker is a Visiting Fellow at the Lawfare Institute, a Visiting Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. He is also the former General Counsel of the FBI. The views expressed here are his own and not necessarily those of any current or former employer.
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