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Nov. 19th, 2007 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanHomeland Security Adviser Steps Down
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 19, 2007
Filed at 8:25 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fran Townsend, President Bush's top White House-based adviser on terrorism and homeland security, has resigned, it was announced Monday.
President Bush said in a statement that Townsend "has ably guided the Homeland Security Council. She has played an integral role in the formation of the key strategies and policies my administration has used to combat terror and protect Americans."
Her departure continues an exodus of key Bush aides and confidants, with his two-term presidency in the final 15 months. Top aide Karl Rove, along with press secretary Tony Snow and senior presidential adviser Dan Bartlett, left earlier this year.
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Which really does raise the question -- haw many rats can jump off the back of a lame duck, anyway? At some point does the duck skin fall away and reveal only rats? Or is there really a wee duck in there somewhere?
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 19, 2007
Filed at 8:25 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Fran Townsend, President Bush's top White House-based adviser on terrorism and homeland security, has resigned, it was announced Monday.
President Bush said in a statement that Townsend "has ably guided the Homeland Security Council. She has played an integral role in the formation of the key strategies and policies my administration has used to combat terror and protect Americans."
Her departure continues an exodus of key Bush aides and confidants, with his two-term presidency in the final 15 months. Top aide Karl Rove, along with press secretary Tony Snow and senior presidential adviser Dan Bartlett, left earlier this year.
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Which really does raise the question -- haw many rats can jump off the back of a lame duck, anyway? At some point does the duck skin fall away and reveal only rats? Or is there really a wee duck in there somewhere?
