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Zoe E. Baird

There are security risks not only from information falling into the wrong hands, but also from information failing to find its way into the right hands. The government’s current approach to protecting classified information does not recognize this risk from failing to share

Zoe E. Baird

The Attorney General's ultimate client must be the people of the United States

as opposed to the President. Baird asked President Clinton to withdraw her nomination when controversy erupted during her confirmation hearings over her hiring illegal aliens as domestics.

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Zoe E. Baird

Born: June 20, 1952
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Zoë Eliot Baird is an American lawyer who is the president of the Markle Foundation. She is known for her role in the Nannygate matter of 1993, which arose when she was nominated by President Bill Clinton as the first woman to be Attorney General of the United States, but she withdrew her nomination when it was discovered she had hired undocumented immigrants and failed to pay Social Security taxes for them. Since 1998, she has led the Markle Foundation.

ZOE E. BAIRD

(Zoë Eliot Baird)