A Bush Aide (and Mother) Is Major Player in Antiterror Campaign

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 - As the mother of two young sons, Frances Fragos Townsend, President Bush's domestic security adviser, believes that families need to know as much as possible about terror threats. That is part of the reason Ms. Townsend has moved from the shadows to a center stage role as an advocate of raising the threat level with urgent warnings of a possible attack.
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"The intelligence was very, very detailed and unusually so,'' Ms. Townsend said in one appearance on Fox News. "And on timing, I really say that we don't know when. I mean what we know from the intelligence up until now is that Al Qaeda is targeting the United States homeland just before the elections.''
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...She is one of the few officials from the Clinton administration to retain a senior job.
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She operates with a sometimes salty, streetwise style that is in sharp contrast to the sleek, buttoned-down world of the Bush White House. In an interview on Monday with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Ms. Townsend reacted with characteristic bluntness when she scowled at comments by Howard Dean, the former Vermont governor and Democratic presidential candidate, suggesting that the administration might have raised the threat level for political reasons. Her reply was, "I found his comments absolutely outrageous.''

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/06/politics/06adviser.html

Her kids and (Rove) her motherhood are (Rove) mentioned four times in this article.

[Cocoa]

1. Townsend was featured prominently in "The Man Who Knew"

the PBS documentary on John O'Neill. She worked closely with him.

[goforit]

2. She may be more than just an aide in terrorism.......right George?

[janx]

3. She's another Condi.

National security advisor, domestic security advisor, etc. Just who the heck IS in charge of security in our country?