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Yet some of those women out in the national security trenches say the fight's far from over. Intelligence executive Carrie Bachner, a former Air Force officer, worked as the legislative adviser to Charles Allen when he was the Department of Homeland Security's top intelligence official. That meant she advised him daily on how to deal with the 86 congressional committees responsible for DHS oversight. Still Bachner says, when she'd walk into a room of intelligence officials or congressional staff with Allen, "they'd automatically ignore me, assuming I was the executive assistant or a note taker until they'd realize,
'Oh, wow, she's the person we're supposed to talk to.'" Bachner is also Indonesian, which she believes is another reason she is often overlooked. "I still get it, even though I'm the president of my company," she says. Her firm, Mission Concepts Inc., specializes in information sharing and serves the Pentagon and most of the intelligence agencies. "They are taken aback when I introduce myself. They're looking for the real president, and well, that's me." And now, when "they" look for the director of the NGA, that will be Letitia Long.
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