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- By creating the National Security Threat List, which was approved by the Attorney General in i991, it changed its approach fron defending against hostile intelligence agencies to protecting U.S. information and technologies. It thus identified ali countries--not just hostile intelligence Services--that pose a continuing and serious intelligence threat to the United States. It also defined expanded threat issues, including the proliferation _Of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons; the loss of critical technologies; and the improper collection of trade secrets and proprietary information. As President Clinton was to note in 1994, with the dramatic’ expansion of the global economy "national security now meééns economic security." Two events occurred in late 1992 and early 1993 that were to have a major impact on FBI policies and Operations. In August 1992, the FBI responded to the shooting death of Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan, who was killed at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, while participating in a surveillance of federal fugitive Randall Weaver, In the course of the standoff, Weaver’s wife was accidentally shot and killed by an FBI sniper. Eight months later, at a remote compound outside Waco, Texas, FBI Agents sought to end a Si-day standoff with members of @ heavily armed religious Sect who had killed four officers of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Instead, as Agents watched in horror, the compound burned to the ground fron fires lit by members of the sect. Eighty persons, including children, died in the blaze. These two events set the stage for public and_ congressional inquiries into the FBI’s ability to respond to crisis situations. On July 19, 1993, following allegations ‘of ethics violations committed by Director Sessions, President Clinton removed him from office and appointed Deputy Director Floyd I. Clarke as Acting FBI Director. The President noted that Director Sessions’ most significant achievement was broadenine the FEI te include more women and minorities. RECENT YEARS: 4993 - Louis J. Freeh was Sworn in as Director of the FBI on September 1, 1993. Freeh came to the Bureau with impeccable credentials and unusual insight into the Bureau. - He had served as an FBI Agent from 1975 to 1981 in the New York City Field Office and at FBI Headquarters before leaving to join the U.s. Attorney’s Office for 13