Fran Townsend Says She's Available for an Obama Post

[babylonsister]

Update: Fran Townsend Says She's Available for an Obama Post

By Jeff Stein | November 19, 2008 3:03 PM


Former Bush White House homeland security advisor Frances Fragos Townsend said Wednesday she would serve in the Obama administration if asked.

Townsend, who spent 13 years in the Justice Department before joining the Bush administration in 2001, was effusive this week in her praise of Eric Holder, Obama's putative nominee for attorney general.

Townsend worked under Holder during the last, frantic days of the Clinton administration, when the White House asked the Justice Department to quickly vet a pardon for fugitive financier Marc Rich.

Republicans have long singled out Holder for his role in the pardon, but Townsend effectively kaboshed that this week.

Holder "got a last-minute phone call" from the Clinton White House to vet Rich, Townsend told CNN, where she is a contributor.

"He was put in a horrible position," Townsend said, adding that Holder was being criticized unfairly in the Rich matter.

She called him "a great choice," for attorney general. "He's just a stellar guy .. a tremendous, tremendous start for the new administration."

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http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/spytalk/2008/11/fran-townsend-comes-to-eric-ho.html

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Is this a joke?

[babylonsister]

2. Nope. nt

[annabanana]

3. . . just further proof that they live in a fantasy land.. . . . n/t

[Solly Mack]

4. uh...

uh...


In 2006, on not capturing bin Laden being a failure

"Well, I'm not sure -- it's a success that hasn't occurred yet. I don't know that I view that as a failure."


http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/273

[peekaloo]

5. Sentry post outside the gates of Hell.

[mwb970]

6. My recollection is that "Frances Fragos Townsend" is an idiot.

Or am I thinking of some other "Frances Fragos Townsend"?

[moondust]

7. A post mortem, Fran? n/t

[KharmaTrain]

8. Uh...No Thanks, Sweetie...

I'll never forget the day someone in the press pool pnked her by turning on the cameras early as she was giving stage directions to some troops in Iraq for what turned out to be a real strange boooshie photo op. I think we can do better.

This babe looks like Barbara Comstock's evil twin. I'm sure there's a stink tank that surely is hiring. I here AEI is setting up a separate wing for "unemployed blonde sockpuppets".

[malaise]

9. Hey Fran

Your party lost. Go find a fugging job at the Chamber of Commerce. :puke: