Wanted: Presidential Counterterrorism Advisor

[DeSwiss]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Wanted: Presidential Counterterrorism Advisor

Talking Points Memo
By Paul Kiel - March 18, 2008, 3:41PM
(http://www.newsweek.com/id/124117?from=rss">From Newsweek)

The Bush administration has been rebuffed in its efforts to find a high-profile candidate to fill the top White House counterterrorism post. The failure to find a successor to Frances Fragos Townsend, who resigned last January as assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, has frustrated White House aides, given the significance the Bush administration has attached to the job....

Among those who have turned down the job—or made clear they weren't interested in replacing Townsend—are retired Army Gen. John Abizaid, former chief of U.S. Central Command, and retired Adm. James Loy, former Coast Guard commandant and deputy homeland security secretary, according to three sources knowledgeable about the issue who, like others quoted in this article, asked for anonymity when discussing White House personnel moves. (Neither Abizaid nor Loy responded to requests for comment.)

The sources said most of the top candidates the White House contacted expressed little interest in signing on so close to the end of President Bush's second term. "It's a friggin' embarrassment," said one source who is involved in the recruitment process. The source noted that Townsend announced her resignation last November but didn't leave the post until January—in part to give the president plenty of time to find a replacement.

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- I know that rats rarely clamber back onto a sinking ship, but aren't there any currently out-of-work Repukes who want this job???

Someone from al-Queda maybe?

Bueller, Bueller, Bueller.....
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[DS1]

1. Find any Marine who has served in Iraq and talked to the locals and understood them.

Done.

[DeSwiss]

3. You mean someone competent in the White House?

Now there's a novel idea.....

[Demeter]

2. It's Hard to Fill a Useless Post

The competent don't want it, the incompetent will just get into trouble. The driven will turn it into an embarrassment and danger for BushCo.

Maybe Jeb would do it. He's going to need a job soon.

[DeSwiss]

4. At this point....

...hiring family members may be his only choice left.

[ConcernedCanuk]

5. Now who would want to tie themselves to the "Torture President" ????

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From Texacutioner to Torture President.

Some progression.

[DeSwiss]

6. Exactly.

Maybe they should have chained Frances to her desk. At least that's one way to try and keep 'em.....

[Demeter]

7. I Bet W Would Have LIKED That Arrangement

It fits in with the frog abuse and sadism to reporters and staff on the rancho.

[DeSwiss]

9. Most BushCo people look tortured anyway....

...so its hard to tell.



- I think he could have made her stay. She was just a tiny little thing.

[snot]

8. No sign he's had one so far -- good idea! nt

[DeSwiss]

10. He just wants the post filled....

...so he can bask in the reflected light of someone else's credibility. If they have any.

- I mean its not like he was going to listen to anybody anyways....

[Hugabear]

11. I wonder if * has tried offering the job to Kiefer Sutherland yet

I can just imagine the phone call.

operator: Mr. Sutherland? Please hold for a call from the President.

Bush: How ya doing, Kiefer? You know, you did a really good job on that show 24. I like the way you really handled them terrorists. It must have been really tough on you when Pres. Palmer died, I always looked up to him as well. I was wondering if you'd like to be my Counterterrorism Advisor?

Sutherland: I'm honored, Mr. President, but you realize that was just acting, I wasn't really a counterterrorism agent. It was just a TV show.

Bush: hehehe, of course I knew that. But still, you seem like you have a pretty good head on your shoulders, and I'm sure you must have learned something. The offer's still there if you want it.