{"id":4036,"date":"2007-11-19T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T17:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4036"},"modified":"2021-05-20T19:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:40:05","slug":"amid-pakistani-disaster-bush-homeland-security-advisor-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/amid-pakistani-disaster-bush-homeland-security-advisor-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Pakistani disaster, Bush Homeland Security advisor resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/596_sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/596_sm.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>John Byrne, Raw Story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security adviser to President George W. Bush Frances Townsend has resigned, following a report of her departure in <em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an important job and she was good at it,&#8221;\u009d an anonymous Bush official <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=t&#038;ct=us\/2-0&#038;fp=47417992eda62835&#038;ei=uo5BR5C0IoTA-gHhoez9Dg&#038;url=http%3A\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1107\/6955.html&#038;cid=0\">told the site<\/a>. &#8220;She will stay until her successor is identified, which is immensely helpful.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Her departure continues the exodus of top aides from the Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Townsend hasn&#8217;t received rave reviews &#8212; and particularly not in areas relevant to the current geopolitical climate in Pakistan. In July, Fox News host Christ Wallace tore into Townsend as to why the Administration had, in his estimate, allowed al Qaeda to resurge.<\/p>\n<p>(Original Article)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Byrne, Raw Story Homeland Security adviser to President George W. Bush Frances Townsend has resigned, following a report of her departure in Politico. &#8220;It&#8217;s an important job and she was good at it,&#8221;\u009d an anonymous Bush official told the site. &#8220;She will stay until her successor is identified, which is immensely helpful.&#8221;\u009d Her departure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amid Pakistani disaster, Bush Homeland Security advisor resigns &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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