Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Andrew Bakaj
The Case for Imposing Costs on China’s AI Distillation Campaigns
U.S. policy circles reacted with a mixture of alarm and confusion when Chinese AI company DeepSeek released its open-source “R1” model in January 2025. R1 appeared to deliver reasoning capabilities competitive with OpenAI’s o1 at a reported training cost of roughly $6 million—a fraction of the investments made by leading U.S. laboratories. That apparent efficiency gap set off intense debate about whether China had found a fundamentally superior approach to AI development.
Transitional Justice in Syria: Domestic-Led Accountability Efforts Cannot Function in Isolation
The conflict in Syria is one of the most documented in modern history. From citizen journalists to local activists, international NGOs to official investigative mechanisms, the amount of information collected on war crimes and crimes against humanity during the conflict is unprecedented. For years, however, the avenues for turning this documentation into tangible action for accountability remained extremely limited.
Lawfare Daily: Andrew Bakaj on Whistleblowing and DOGE’s Activities at the NLRB
Published by The Lawfare Institute in Cooperation With Andrew Bakaj, Chief Legal Counsel at Whistleblower Aid, joins Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at Texas Law and Contributing Editor at Lawfare, to discuss a declaration by a National Labor Relations Board employee Daniel Berulis that DOGE facilitated the exfiltration of potentially sensitive information to external sources. The two also analyze the merits of whistleblower protections more generally.
Trump is dismantling the system that guards against government malfeasance
In 2019, we represented an anonymous whistle-blower from the American intelligence community whose disclosures about President Trump's attempt to coerce President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine led to his first impeachment. Our goals as lawyers were simple: to ensure that the truth came out and our client was safe from retaliation.
Trump Takes on Whistle-Blowers Original
In 2019, we represented an anonymous whistle-blower from the American intelligence community whose disclosures about President Trump's attempt to coerce President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine led to his first impeachment. Our goals as lawyers were simple: to ensure that the truth came out and our client was safe from retaliation.
Security clearance concerns and the COVID-19 pandemic
While there are those who say that during the COVID-19 pandemic “we’re all in this together,” the truth of the matter is that some have, or will be having, a substantially more difficult time getting through this period compared with others. Some will have contracted the virus, and of those who do, the impact will vary in severity. The same is true with the economic and psychological impact the nationwide shutdown has on each one of us.
Commentary: Trump is waging war on our inspectors general. Congress needs to choose a side.
President Donald Trump's purge of our nation's inspectors general is a crisis. It is a crisis that has a direct impact on the health and safety of all Americans, as well as the democratic protections that keep us from slipping into corruption. Alarm bells should be going off everywhere. We learned last week that Trump reportedly plans to install up to seven inspectors general as part of a wider "purge" within the federal government.
Trump's purge of inspectors general is a crisis. Alarm bells should be going off everywhere.
Michael Atkinson, inspector general for the intelligence community, arrives at the U.S. Capitol in Washington for closed-door questioning on Oct. 4, 2019. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) The authors, who assisted the anonymous intelligence community whistleblower on the Ukraine matter, are affiliated with Whistleblower Aid, which provides pro bono legal representation. President Trump's purge of our nation's inspectors general is a crisis.
Opinion | We Represented the Whistle-Blower. The Law Needs Urgent Help.
Future whistle-blowers must be persuaded that while there are always risks, the system can protect them. By Andrew P. Bakaj and Mark S. Zaid Mr. Bakaj and Mr. Zaid represented the intelligence community whistle-blower. March 1, 2020 A woman protesting outside a Donald Trump Jr, book promotion event on the UCLA campus in California last November. Whistle-blowers are needed now more than ever. They must be persuaded that while there are always risks, the system can protect them.
We represent the whistleblower. Their identity is no longer relevant
Opinion Written By: Andrew P. Bakaj, Mark S. Zaid I Special to The Washington Post | Oct 27th 2019 - 6am. Our client's whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump's efforts to solicit interference from Ukraine in the 2020 U.S. election was publicly released a month ago, and since then, speculation about the whistleblower's identity has only increased.
We represent the whistleblower. Their identity is no longer relevant.
Our client's whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump's efforts to solicit interference from Ukraine in the 2020 U.S. election was publicly released a month ago, and since then, speculation about the whistleblower's identity has only increased. As each allegation in the complaint is substantiated by new witnesses, the president and his supporters remain fanatically devoted to bringing our client into the spotlight.
Whistleblower's lawyers: It is outrageous for President Trump to claim our client engaged in treason
Our client's whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump's efforts to solicit interference from Ukraine in the 2020 U.S. election was publicly released a month ago, and since then, speculation about the whistleblower's identity has only increased. As each allegation in the complaint is substantiated by new witnesses, the president and his supporters remain fanatically devoted to bringing our client into the spotlight.
The Whistleblower's Identity Is No Longer Relevant
Andrew Bakaj & Mark Zaid, Washington Post October 26, 2019 Our client’s whistleblower complaint about President Trump’s efforts to solicit interference from Ukraine in the 2020 U.S. election was publicly released a month ago, and since then, speculation about the whistleblower’s identity has only increased. As each allegation in the complaint is substantiated by new witnesses, the president and his supporters remain fanatically devoted to bringing our client into the spotlight.
Andrew P. Bakaj and Mark S. Zaid: Whistleblower’s identity is no longer relevant
By Andrew P. Bakaj and Mark S. Zaid Special to the Washington Post Our client’s whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s efforts to solicit interference from Ukraine in the 2020 U.S. election was publicly released a month ago, and since then, speculation about the whistleblower’s identity has only increased. As each allegation in the complaint is substantiated by new witnesses, the president and his supporters remain fanatically devoted to bringing our client into the spotlight.
Whistleblower attorneys Andrew Bakaj and Mark Zaid: Our client's identity is no longer relevant
Our client’s whistleblower complaint about President Trump’s efforts to solicit interference from Ukraine in the 2020 U.S. election was publicly released a month ago, and since then, speculation about the whistleblower’s identity has only increased. As each allegation in the complaint is substantiated by new witnesses, the president and his supporters remain fanatically devoted to bringing our client into the spotlight. But the reality is that the identity of the whistleblower is irrelevant.
New Case Proves Intelligence Community Whistleblowers Have Protections
NSA headquarters, Ft. Meade, Md. In December, Adm. Mike Rogers, director of the NSA, placed the agency’s Inspector General (IG), Dr. George Ellard, on administrative leave and recommended he be removed from his position after an investigation into whether he retaliated against a whistleblower was conducted by a panel of IGs at the CIA, Treasury and Justice Department. The news was first reported by the Project on Government Oversight and confirmed by the Associated Press (AP).
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Andrew
Contact Andrew, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack