Heads up for wonks who think ICE is a rogue agency (like me)

[annabanana]

http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_10122011_2.html

Committee on the Judiciary

Oversight Hearing on:

"U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Priorities and the Rule of Law"
Wednesday 10/12/2011 - 3:00 p.m.
2141 Rayburn House Office Building
Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement


Witness List

John Morton
Director
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Mr, Chris Crane
President
National ICE Council

Mr. David B. Rivkin, Jr.
Partner
Baker & Hostetler, LLP
Washington, DC

Mr. Ray Tranchant
Director
Advanced Technology Center
Tidewater Community College

Mr. Paul Virtue
Partner
Baker & McKenzie LLP

Who is this "Baker" guy, anyway?

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Actually, 2 different guys.

Baker Hostetler is an American law firm based in Cleveland, Ohio and founded in 1916. One of the firm's founders, Newton D. Baker, was U.S. Secretary of War during World War I and former Mayor of Cleveland.
says Wiki.

Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, founded in Chicago in 1949 by Russell Baker and John McKenzie. It is home to more than <1>3,800 lawyers spread over 69 offices in 41 different countries.
says Wiki.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Hostetler

but, what is interesting about Baker McKenzie is.....
Christine Lagarde — then-Paris managing partner and an antitrust and labor lawyer — was elected Chairman of the Global Executive Committee, the first woman to lead Baker & McKenzie. She was Chairman for five years. In 2004, Forbes listed Lagarde as No. 76 in its list of “Most Powerful Women in the World."<9> She then served as France’s Minister of Finance. In June 2011, she was elected as the first woman to become Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_%26_McKenzie_LLP


Baker McKenzie sounds extremely corporate and very internationally connected.