Yeah. If the NYT's likes her, she must be doing something very very wrong.
Might have something to do with this (from the article):
"She started......as a trusted but controversial adviser to President Bill Clinton's attorney general, Janet Reno, who asked Ms. Townsend to oversee how much information from wiretaps and search warrants could be legally shared by investigators and prosecutors - part of the so-called wall blamed for many of the intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks ."