Stewart A. Baker
Steptoe & Johnson, Partner
Stewart Baker is a partner with the law firm Steptoe & Johnson, where he specializes in national security law. He served as general counsel to the NSA and as assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security. The following is excerpted from a July 31, 2013, statement during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on “Strengthening Privacy Rights and National Security: Oversight of FISA Surveillance Programs.” To be blunt, one of the reasons I’m here is that I fear we may repeat some of the mistakes we made as a country in the years before September 11, 2001. In…
