Founding Partner of DiGenova and Toensing law firm in Washington, DC; former Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division, she created the Justice Department’s Terrorism Unit and was responsible for white-collar crime investigations; former chief counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee
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