It's interesting to note that Mylroie was a foreign affairs advisor to Clinton during the '92 campaign.
It would be incorrect to presume no partisanship on the part of Mylroie. She is a great American dedicated to stopping terrorism, very opinionated.
I saw her last year on Brit Hume relating an anecdote about advising Clinton advisors. She informed them that firing a bunch of Cruise missiles at nothing was not going to intimidate anyone. She says they stared at her in disbelief. (Schmucks!)
I also saw her on CSpan very recently testifying as part of the 9/11 investigation. She talked about the phony Kuwaiti IDs planted during Iraq's occupation of Kuwait. Next to her was another intelligence 'spert (former CIA) poohpoohing the Iraq-Al Qaeda link. This other woman made the point that Saddam would be (rightly) terrified of ending up dead if he worked closely with Al Qaeda. Remember that there is a strong partisan liberal element in CIA. This could have motivated the second woman's testimony.
It's interesting to note that Mylroie was a foreign affairs advisor to Clinton during the '92 campaign.
One of my senior year History professors (not Mylroie) was also a foreign-policy advisor to the Clinton 1992 campagin. She and her TA were adamant that Castro during the Cuban Missile Crisis wasn't a geopolitical threat because of our continuing misunderstanding of the "benevolent" revolution on that tropical isle. Several students had to pointedly remind her that the mere presence of long-range missiles, nuclear or not, on Cuban soil were threat enough to most of the southeastern United States. I was glad to see first hand the type of people Clinton picked as his employees and advisors as they were a perfect reflection of the type of President we was going to be. It was spot-on.