She is a lawyer in the Justice Department's office of intelligence policy and review in Washington.
Quite a number of issues are driving European needs for intelligence policy.
Consequently, these policies are sometimes derided as zero intelligence policies.
Even members of the transition team involved in intelligence policy were caught off guard.
It also continued its research on American intelligence policy and sponsored unclassified workshops with intelligence specialists.
"And this was part of a new intelligence policy which goes right on up to the Pentagon and perhaps even beyond," Senator Levin said.
There was not time in the frightening aftermath of Sept. 11 to review long-term intelligence policies.
James Baker, the Justice Department's counsel for intelligence policy, testified that the Bush administration supported the proposed bill.
If intelligence policy can be made responsive to public pressure, all sorts of things might become possible.
Even as one dispute about intelligence policy was settled, another was joined.