Frances Townsend
Frances Townsend
Frances M. Fragos Townsendis the former Homeland Security Advisor to United States President George W. Bush and TV personality. Townsend was appointed to this position by President Bush on May 28, 2004. Her resignation was announced November 19, 2007. She chaired the Homeland Security Council and reported to the President on homeland security policy and counterterrorism policy. She previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism. In 2008 she joined CNN as...
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It was the president who acknowledged the response to Hurricane Katrina was insufficient, and it was the president who first sought the lessons learned.
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It was bin Laden who decided that it should just focus on the East Coast, and that the West Coast should be held in abeyance ... as a follow-on attack. It's our understanding now that it was too difficult to get enough operatives for both the East and West Coast plots at the same time.
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And so our allies in Saudi Arabia face as great, if not a greater, threat by virtue of this escape than we do.
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If it were that simple, it would have been easier. There were numerous reports about the levees. Most of them were inconsistent.
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In truly catastrophic events state and locals may be incapacitated or overwhelmed or even worse.
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When the civilized world demonstrated its determination, the Libyan government correctly judged its own interests, and the American people are safer.
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We are disappointed that they were all housed together. We are disappointed that their restrictions in prison weren't more stringent.
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We can improve the response. We can make it faster and more efficient, and that's the focus of the 125 recommendations, which are really broken into 17 different areas.
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We knew they were going to fly a commercial airliner into the tallest building in California. And it was an analytic judgement by the intelligence community that that meant the Library Tower.
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The problem is you can't share these details when you have operational leads. It takes time.