It was said that Pres. Clinton had given a speech while visiting the CIA HQ in Langley/Virginia. He allegedly said in this speech that obtaining industrial informations has the highest priority and this were the new task for the spies.
ah yes, just like the way Clinton alone came up with the whole Clipper idea as a way to balance the legitimate goals of law enforcement with the right to privacy in society. careful Bill, your strings are showing. and I won't say who is the puppeteer, but he has the initials N.S.A. pardon me, but this new "economic espionage" sleazoid-intelligence- agency-justifying bugaboo really annoys me. boy, I wish I could get my job to work the way the government works. I go to my boss, and say, "repeat after me: you will be given a fat raise because you are crucial to the company". I would *die* to see an op-ed in the NYT with the subject: "economic espionage: the new bogeyman decoy after the cold war"