[honway]

Clinton aides are looking at contingency plans for covert operations to capture bin Laden from his reputed high-tech lair deep inside Afghanistan.

Clinton aides should have considered the effect of operational security on the lives of the covert operators they were considering sending to Afghanistan.

[flamefront]

I would look further but from this one Congressional statement alone I would be tempted to consider Ms. Sheila Horan a potential Clintonista rah-rah supporter

September 13, 2000
Statement for the Record of Sheila Horan, Deputy Assistant Director National Security Division Federal Bureau of Investigation on Intellectual Property and Economic Espionage Before the House Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade Washington, D.C.

Asia is the known problem with IP theft and dual-use technology misuse. Yet in her statement she makes no mention of that.

But the larger issue is that this whole shift from National Security to Economic Security in the FBI (remember that Clinton program?) was the very point of departure that distracted the FBI from doing its normal job. It was masked as another peace dividend that major actors in the world would leave us alone. Now only economic spying would be an inssue in the post Soviet, post cold war world. Ms. Moran is a key person pushing that policy.

Since 9-11 we know how wrong that policy is.