[7][8][9] Previously while serving as a U.S. government official, he designed the legal and investigative apparatus to protect intelligence community whistleblowers.

[13][14] As a student attending The George Washington University, Bakaj interned for three United States Senators: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Charles Schumer, and Hillary Clinton.

During his tour and while traveling to Lviv, Ukraine, on mission, a deadly air show accident occurred at the Sknyliv Airfield.

Due to his proficiency in Ukrainian and proximity to the disaster, Bakaj coordinated with the Embassy in Kyiv to secure emergency aid from the United States.

The program he developed became the model for what would eventually become Presidential Policy Directive 19 (PPD-19), Protecting Whistleblowers with Access to Classified Information, issued by President Barack Obama in 2012.

Bakaj eventually transitioned to the CIA where he created a whistleblower protection program modeled on the one he developed at the Defense Department so as to comply with the directive.

my client’s disclosure will not be transmitted to Congress because the Acting Director of National Intelligence views the matter as 'outside the scope' of the applicable whistleblower statute".

Maguire later testified that the White House counsel had told him he could not release the whistle-blower's complaint to Congress because it was covered by executive privilege.

[23] On September 24, 2019, because his client's complaint was being blocked from transmittal to Congress, Bakaj sent a letter to Maguire providing "formal notice" of his intent to contact congressional intelligence committees directly concerning the matter.

[26] In a Washington Post op-ed on April 14, 2020, Bakaj expressed concern about the purging of inspectors general following Michael Atkinson's firing by President Trump, stating that "alarm bells should be going off".

In October 2021 the Washington Post reported “Andrew Bakaj, who represents Haugen at Whistleblower Aid, said it was ‘immediately clear’ that she had materials that were critical for lawmakers and regulators seeking to hold the company accountable.

‘She’s a perfect example of why whistleblowers are so important: Without her, we didn’t know what we didn’t know,’ Bakaj told the Post.”[28] Bakaj is among the attorneys representing Lieutenant Colonel Yevgeny Vindman, whose twin brother Alexander Vindman served as a key witness in President Donald Trump's first impeachment, in a whistleblower reprisal complaint filed with the Pentagon's Inspector General.

[29] Bakaj is also a member of the team representing Brian Murphy, the former Acting Under Secretary for the Office of Intelligence and Analysis with the Department of Homeland Security.

[30][31] Bakaj has also been involved in representing U.S diplomats who have been impacted by the Havana syndrome in Cuba as well as individuals before the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack.

[10] • In 2011 Bakaj was a member of a team named as a finalist in the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Award (National Security and International Affairs).