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From the American Bar Association October, 1996

Ms. Healey is the Senior Counsel (Minority Staff) of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she previously served as staff director of the Subcommittee on Legislation. A graduate of Harvard University and the Georgetown University Law Center, Ms. Healey served for six years as a senior legislative assistant to Representative Barbara B. Kennelly (D-Conn.).

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YUP, she's certainly square in the middle of Democrat intel and security issues in the mid-to-late-90s.... no conflict of interest there!

Way back when, I naively imagined that while both parties would want to get "their people" onto the 9/11 Commission, that they would deal with the obvious conflict-of-interest issue by going back more than a decade, say, to people like Lehman who served in the '80s.... but to have all these Clintonistas and people from the Democratic staffs of the '90s.... well, the conflict-of-interest is too blatant -- they not only have to evaluate their own party members, they are being asked to evaluate THEMSELVES and their closest friends and colleagues.