Bush’s White House homeland security aide resigns.
Frances Fragos Townsend, President Bush’s homeland security adviser, has announce that she’s leaving the White House. Townsend, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, “was one of the president’s most valued and trusted advisers, with a phone on her desk connecting her to No. 10 Downing Street, the British prime minister’s office.”
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Good riddance to another war criminal.Oh and Fran,use some of your blood money to purchase yourself a pair of lips.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:30 am#1 - “use some of your blood money to purchase yourself a pair of lips.” Comment by Vanthomas — November 19, 2007 @ 8:30 am
Haven’t they been permenantly attached to Pres. Bush’s anus ever since she was appointed? ;-)
One more down for the most corrupt, and corruptable, administrations in the history of the US!
November 19th, 2007 at 8:34 amYah, good riddance to these criminals. What crime did she commit again?
November 19th, 2007 at 8:38 amConspiracy to commit buggery on the American people. BTW: there’s a rubber hangin’ out of your butt.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:46 amI was going to ask “why”, but I knew the answer:
“To spend more time with her family.” :)
November 19th, 2007 at 8:48 amAnother corrupt Bushite to go! Hoorah!
November 19th, 2007 at 8:50 amIt’s hard to get too excited. I’m sure she has a cushy, well paid job waiting for her in the private sector.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:52 amIt’s hard to get too excited. I’m sure she has a cushy, well paid job waiting for her in the private sector.
More than likely at a condom company.
November 19th, 2007 at 8:55 amYes, she probably has a cushy job awaiting her - maybe at a telecom.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:09 amI’m not sad to see her go, either. But you gotta admit — she and Dana Perino are the last of the MILFs in GDumbya’s administration.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:13 amtom:
I’m not ever interested in MILFs, but conservative men are never attractive to me.
Denial of Reality = Unattractive
November 19th, 2007 at 9:16 amIf Richard Clarke recommended her I would have to say she was probably a controversial pick among White House insiders. She was a confidant of Janet Reno as well.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:17 am“She was one of the leading defenders of the famous Wall,” “She was an assiduous defender of the rules.”
Columnist Robert D. Novak wrote that Reno’s onetime protege could turn out to be an “enemy within.”
Townsend, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, “was one of the president’s most valued and trusted advisers, with a phone on her desk connecting her to No. 10 Downing Street, the British prime minister’s office.â€
Unfortunately Gordon Brown disconnected that phone. So I guess there wasn’t much left for Townsend to do.
November 19th, 2007 at 9:58 amHummm…interesting?
Bush noted in his statement that Townsend prosecuted violent crimes, narcotics offenses, Mafia cases and white-collar fraud as an assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, N.Y. and as an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan.
From Wikipedia,
Townsend began her prosecutorial career in 1985, serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York. In 1988, she joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York where she focused on international organized crime and white-collar crime cases.
Also from Wikipedia,
A Democrat and Independent in the 1970s, and a socially liberal Republican from the 1980s to present, Giuliani served in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney.
Connection? Just Wondering.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:02 amBush praised her that she “helped to better respond to natural disasters”! Talk about damning with faint praise!
November 19th, 2007 at 10:03 amThere are only 2 reasons people leave this administration:
1 - They’ve been implicated in corruption
November 19th, 2007 at 10:16 am2 - They’ve been confronted with a level of corruption or unconstitutionality that even they cannot support.
“Townsend, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism,…[had]… a phone on her desk connecting her to No. 10 Downing Street, the British prime minister’s office.â€
Since the phone had not rung since Blair’s departure, she felt her job was done.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:23 am“sprint to the finish”, eh?
November 19th, 2007 at 10:24 amThen again, maybe she’s just po’ed that Mukasey was confirmed and she didn’t get the AG position.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:24 amThat exit door is pretty busy now-a-days.
Bush/Cheney
Hague Trials ‘09
Buck Fush
November 19th, 2007 at 12:54 pm