FBI General Counsel James Baker will replace FBI Director James Comey at SXSW.[/caption]
FBI General Counsel James Baker will replace FBI Director James Comey at South by Southwest Conference & Festivals this year.
In a news release yesterday, SXSW said the FBI director would be unable to attend the conference due to commitments in Washington, D.C.
Baker, who has worked on all aspects of national security investigations and prosecutions as a long-serving Department of Justice official, will take the stage alongside CEO Jeffrey Herbst of Newseum, a Washington, D.C. museum of news.
“While director Comey is now unable to attend, we’re still really excited that this important conversation will take place,” he said in the release.
They'll discuss the intersection of national security, technology and First Amendment rights.
Baker was appointed to his position in January 2014. He previously clerked on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, then joined the Department of Justice with the Criminal Division through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 1990 and worked as a federal prosecutor with the division’s Fraud Section.
He's the recipient of the George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in counterterrorism—the CIA’s highest counterterrorism award—the National Security Agency’s Intelligence Under Law Award, the NSA Director’s Distinguished Service Medal and the DOJ's Edmund J. Randolph Award.
The SXSW session will still be held Monday at 5 p.m. in the Hilton Austin Downtown hotel.
FBI General Counsel James Baker will replace FBI Director James Comey at SXSW.[/caption]
FBI General Counsel James Baker will replace FBI Director James Comey at South by Southwest Conference & Festivals this year.
In a news release yesterday, SXSW said the FBI director would be unable to attend the conference due to commitments in Washington, D.C.
Baker, who has worked on all aspects of national security investigations and prosecutions as a long-serving Department of Justice official, will take the stage alongside CEO Jeffrey Herbst of Newseum, a Washington, D.C. museum of news.
“While director Comey is now unable to attend, we’re still really excited that this important conversation will take place,” he said in the release.
They'll discuss the intersection of national security, technology and First Amendment rights.
Baker was appointed to his position in January 2014. He previously clerked on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, then joined the Department of Justice with the Criminal Division through the Attorney General’s Honors Program in 1990 and worked as a federal prosecutor with the division’s Fraud Section.
He's the recipient of the George H.W. Bush Award for Excellence in counterterrorism—the CIA’s highest counterterrorism award—the National Security Agency’s Intelligence Under Law Award, the NSA Director’s Distinguished Service Medal and the DOJ's Edmund J. Randolph Award.
The SXSW session will still be held Monday at 5 p.m. in the Hilton Austin Downtown hotel.
