Reply #10: What IS Robert Novak trying to say about her?

[Judi Lynn]

Defector Rand Beers's post as senior director for Combating Terrorism remains vacant. However, on May 27, Frances Fragos Townsend was named deputy national security adviser for Combating Terrorism. The announcement obscured the fact that she had been a Democratic political appointment who was partially blamed by erstwhile Justice colleagues for failure to investigate alleged Sept. 11 terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui. A White House official told me Townsend considers herself a career government employee and a "lifelong Republican," with no responsibility for the Moussaoui fiasco.
(snip)http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030710.shtml

What is he, drunk? Surely he could take the time to be clearer. Which is it, Democrat or Republican? What a jerk.

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On edit:

Found a little more about Fran Townsend's background, and it's from a Fox link, so don't click it unless you'd really want to hear more, as Fox surely sucks:

From Mafia prosecutor to White House counterterrorism chief


WASHINGTON (AP) - Fourteen years ago, Fran Townsend strode into a New York courtroom armed with tapes, photos and other government evidence to prosecute mobsters affiliated with the Gambino crime family. The men seated at the defendants' table dismissed the petite woman behind the huge cart of exhibits as nothing more than a paralegal.
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By 1988, she had persuaded then-U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani to hire her as a federal prosecutor. She eventually got her dream assignment, a move into the organized crime unit. She began working spinoff investigations from the famous "Pizza Connection" case, in which Giuliani's office had taken down a Sicily-based drug smuggling ring run by the U.S. mob.

About the same time, Townsend caught the eye of Jo Ann Harris, who had been defense counsel on a labor racketeering case Townsend tried.

When Harris was tapped to become the assistant attorney general running the Justice Department's criminal division under Reno, she asked Townsend to come to Washington as chief of staff.

Several promotions gradually exposed Townsend to national security matters. In 1998 came the offer to lead the Office of Intelligence Policy and Review, which reviews FBI requests for super-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants that - with the permission of a special U.S. spy court - allow wiretaps and other surveillance on suspected spies and terrorists.
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http://www.fox23news.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=D12A97ED-D391-4B16-BA41-A920EAAA2D99