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	Frances Townsend - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Frances is the daughter of a Greek American roofer and an Irish American office manager for a construction company who instilled in her daughter a sense of being very independent.
		Townsend graduated cum laude from the American University in 1982 where she received a B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Psychology.
		Townsend began her prosecutorial career in 1985, serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frances_Townsend (438 words)

	USNews.com: Portrait: Frances Fragos Townsend
		Townsend developed a unique perspective on al Qaeda because of her close personal friendship with a legendary FBI agent and al Qaeda expert named John O'Neill, who retired from the bureau but lost his life on Sept. 11, 2001, just days after starting his job as security chief at the World Trade Center.
		Townsend found herself in the middle of that debate over how much of a "wall" should exist between intelligence-gatherers and prosecutors, and her tenure at OIPR remains controversial today.
		Townsend believed that the FISA court and its chief judge at the time, Royce Lamberth, would refuse to approve search warrants and wiretaps if they believed too much information sharing was going on and if prosecutors were controlling or directing the intelligence-gathering efforts.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/041206/6townsend_2.htm (715 words)

	USNews.com: Portrait: Frances Fragos Townsend
		It is Townsend who has led the government's response over the past year to numerous terrorism-related threats and crises, first as deputy national security adviser for counterterrorism, then as President Bush's new adviser for homeland security.
		A registered Republican, Townsend, 42, is a holdover from the Clinton administration, where she served as Attorney General Janet Reno's trusted but controversial intelligence adviser.
		Townsend's career began as a prosecutor in the Brooklyn district attorney's office, but it took off when she moved to the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan, where she began prosecuting corporate and mob cases for Rudolph Giuliani.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/news/articles/041206/6townsend.htm (637 words)

	Kathy's Genealogy Pages
		Obediah Townsend born: 1795 in SC married: 1817 in TN died: bef.
		William Alexander Townsend born: 8 February 1868 in AR died: 1931 in AR spouse: Nancy Elizabeth Turner born: 10 April 1868 in AL died: 22 February 1927 in OK children:
		Frances Emily Townsend born: 1886 in AR died: 1927 in AR spouse: Riley Young born: 1881 in AR died: 1926 in AR
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/Valley/6632/town.html (495 words)

	Homeland Security Adviser Gets High Marks in a Tough Job - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Townsend in the 1980's prosecuting the Gambino crime family in the United States attorney's office for the Southern District of New York.
		Townsend declined to be interviewed for this article, saying through a spokeswoman that she did not want to talk before her recommendations are made public.
		Townsend to oversee how much information from wiretaps and search warrants could be legally shared by investigators and prosecutors - part of the so-called wall blamed for many of the intelligence failures before the Sept. 11 attacks.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/06/29/politics/29townsend.html?ex=1277697600&en=5a484819b16da5ef&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (784 words)

	The Hilltop Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		During Charley, Townsend said, the power was knocked out, and he had to throw away a lot of chicken that was inside a freezer at the store.
		During Frances, Townsend said, the power was not knocked out but the store did close for three days, which cost his franchise about $15,000 dollars worth of business.
		Townsend said he was glad he stayed in Florida during these storms.
	hilltop.mhc.edu /091304/hurricane.asp (516 words)

	Harvard University IOP: Events & Programs: Calendar of Events
		Townsend spent 13 years at the U. Department of Justice in a variety of senior positions, her last assignment as Counsel to the Attorney General for Intelligence Policy.
		Townsend was appointed as Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, where she oversaw international law enforcement and training matters in the Criminal Division, and acted as an advisor to the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General on international law enforcement policy.
		Townsend received her JD from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1984.
	ksgnotes1.harvard.edu /calendars/iop.nsf/event.html?readform&id=342173B9DDB4F50C8525715C00592697 (431 words)

	#092: 03-02-98 - FRANCES FRAGOS TOWNSEND PICKED TO HEAD OFFICE OF INTELLIGENCE
		Townsend was Director of the Office of International Affairs (OIA) in the Criminal Division, an office of 80 staff members divided into four teams by region of the world.
		Townsend received her B.A. at The American University in 1982, and her J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 1984.
		Townsend is married to John M. Townsend, a senior partner at Hughes Hubbard and Reed's Washington D.C. office.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/library/news/1998/03/092_htm.html (468 words)

	USATODAY.com - Bush details foiled 2002 terror plot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Frances Townsend, counterterrorism adviser to the president, declined to say whether the investigation involved the National Security Agency surveillance program that has drawn criticism for using wiretaps without court order.
		Townsend said Bush discussed the investigation to remind Americans the threat is still there and highlight the level of international cooperation needed to fight terrorism.
		Townsend would not disclose how many suspects were arrested, which countries they were from, where they are today or which nations helped foil the plot.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2006-02-09-bush_x.htm (636 words)

	Welcome to MichaelMoore.com!
		The previously undisclosed information in the Townsend affair -- which involved efforts by various senior officials in the Bush administration to discredit Townsend and undermine her appointment as the president's deputy national security adviser -- is important for at least two reasons.
		Libby's opposition to Townsend was so intense that he asked at least two other people in the White House to obtain her personnel records.
		The papers on Frances Townsend that Rove had on his desk on July 9 appear to have corroborated Rove's and Novak's accounts to prosecutors that the principal focus of their conversation was Townsend's appointment.
	www.michaelmoore.com /words/latestnews/index.php?id=5192 (3009 words)

	ORDER OF SAINT ANDREW THE APOSTLE: NEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Townsend was appointed Homeland Security Advisor by the President on May 28, 2004.
		Townsend came to the White House from the U.S. Coast Guard, where she had served as Assistant Commandant for Intelligence.
		Townsend began her prosecutorial serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn, New York in 1985.
	www.archons.patriarchate.org /news/detail.asp?id=98 (322 words)

	CNN.com - Bush taps Townsend to lead Katrina inquiry - Sep 20, 2005
		Townsend, who leads the president's homeland security council, will follow up on Bush's promise two weeks ago to figure out what went wrong in sending federal help to the regions devastated by the August 29 hurricane, the White House said.
		Townsend was tapped because she heads the president's homeland security council.
		Townsend was appointed to her position by President Bush in 2004 after serving as the deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism.
	www.cnn.com /2005/POLITICS/09/20/katrina.townsend (771 words)

	My Way News
		Townsend, without naming names, criticized those at FEMA she said had "become bitter" and lashed out "trying to find someone else, anyone else, to blame."
		Townsend, who at Bush's request is conducting her own "lessons learned" inquiry, said her report would be released later this month.
		While both Chertoff and Townsend acknowledged that the federal response left much to be desired, both suggested federal officials up to Bush had been unfairly criticized.
	apnews.myway.com /article/20060214/D8FOKUJG2.html (720 words)

	Bush Adviser Acknowledges Lack of Preparation for Katrina
		White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend acknowledged yesterday that the government failed to prepare adequately for the consequences of Hurricane Katrina, noting studies of New Orleans's vulnerability to flooding and lessons from flawed U.S. responses to past natural and terrorist disasters.
		Townsend said yesterday that she expects her 12-person staff's final report around the end of the year -- in time for action by Congress, if necessary, before next year's hurricane season.
		Townsend said the results are incomplete: "We will go wherever the facts lead us." But, she said, the administration has already reacted far more aggressively ahead of Hurricane Wilma's expected landfall as a Category 1 or 2 storm next week in Florida than before the far more powerful Katrina.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/21/AR2005102101862.html?referrer=email (1003 words)

	U.S. Thwarted Terrorist Attack Against Los Angeles in 2002 - US Department of State
		Townsend said that the thwarted "West Coast" plot is a reminder of the need to gather as much information as possible from all sources, especially detainee debriefings and intelligence operations, to uncover evolving terrorist networks and plots.
		TOWNSEND: Well, the problem with that is, the fact that names may be out in the public doesn't make them declassified.
		TOWNSEND: I know, but I can't tell you their names, because that would give it away, and I can't tell you the names of the countries because -- not because I care, but because our partners want to have it kept a secret.
	usinfo.state.gov /is/Archive/2006/Feb/10-685295.html (3365 words)

	Bicycle Madness by Jane Kurtz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Frances Willard (1839-1898) left behind a career in education to become involved full-time in her work for the temperance society and for her other causes.
		She was also supportive of women having an active role in the Methodist Church Read a short biography of her life on a page of the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church.
		Frances Willard is honored with a marble bust at Northwestern University and with a marble statue in the United States Capitol Building (1905).
	www.janekurtz.com /bicycle.html (1114 words)

	: Executive Branch : : Frances Fragos Townsend (3/1/04) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She chairs the Counterterrorism Security Group, which meets weekly to ensure that all the departments with a role in counter-terrorism are on the same track.
		When Townsend took the NSC job, some Republicans voiced concern that she was a Democrat and potential political infiltrator.
		Townsend sees her NSC post as a chance "to try and better the system that I've been a part of for my whole career." A native of Wantagh, N.Y., Townsend, 42, earned her bachelor's degree from American University and went on to the University of San Diego School of Law.
	www.govexec.com /story_page.cfm?articleid=27820&printerfriendlyVers=1& (346 words)

	Francis Everett Townsend
		The simplicity of the proposal, the apostolic zeal of Townsend, and the organization of the Townsendites into a formidable pressure group brought increasing support for the plan despite its condemnation by competent economists.
		Bills to establish the Townsend plan were continually defeated in Congress after 1935, and the strength of the movement declined after the economy began to recover and the effects of
		Townsend modified a few of the provisions of his plan in the 1940s.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0849176.html (144 words)

	White House Announces Appointment of Frances Fragos Townsend as Homeland Security Advisor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Townsend will fill the position held by General John A. Gordon who announced his retirement after 36 years of public service.
		Townsend came to the White House from the U. Coast Guard, where she had been serving as Assistant Commandant for Intelligence.
		Townsend received her bachelor's degree from the American University and her J.D. from the University of San Diego.
	www.fas.org /irp/news/2004/04/wh043004.html (257 words)

	An Outsider's Quick Rise To Bush Terror Adviser
		In many ways, Townsend is the perfect match for a leader who sees the battle with al Qaeda as a fl-and-white struggle against radical outlaws.
		She is the "coordinator, the facilitator, the bridge," as FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III put it, between the powerful institutions and clashing egos of a war cabinet.
		Townsend is both "honest broker" in the many internal debates, said national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley, and "crisis manager" during terrorist attacks such as the recent London bombings.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/26/AR2005082601511.html (725 words)

	Townsend Family of South Carolina, Florida and Kentucky - Person Page 198
		She was the daughter of Charles Pinkney Townsend and Amanda McConnell.
		Frances Carolina Townsend married Robert Cullen Martin in 1864.
		Frances Carolina Townsend died on 27 October 1912 in Florida.
	www.mindspring.com /~jburval/genealogy/townmarl-p/p198.htm (486 words)

	THE FOX AT THE HENHOUSE
		Townsend is likely to get away with being independent of her boss, the President, even if she wants to.
		Townsend is a career prosecutor with no experience in natural disaster preparedness or response.
		Townsend were really on top of her current job, wouldn’t the president have known that his Department of Homeland Security is a bureaucratic nightmare, a pastiche of more than 70 unmanaged – and perhaps unmanageable – agencies stitched together with a focus so obsessed with terrorism that natural disasters are all but forgotten?
	www.opednews.com /maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=opedne_william__050921_the_fox_at_the_henho.htm (741 words)

	White House Appoints New Advisor for Combating Terrorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		(Frances Townsend to serve on National Security Council staff) (290) The White House May 21 announced the appointment of Frances Fragos Townsend to be the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism.
		Townsend comes to the White House from the U.S. Coast Guard, where she has been serving as Assistant Commandant for Intelligence.
		Townsend holds a B.A. in Political Science and a B.S. in Psychology from American University; she received her J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law.
	www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2003/05-21-2.htm (302 words)

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		President Bush's adviser on homeland security, Frances Townsend, says the recent arrests of suspected al-Qaida terrorists and the seizure of information about the group's detailed surveillance of financial centers have disrupted some of al-Qaida's plans for attacks on the United States.
		Townsend said much of the intelligence gathered from various sources indicated that an attack was possible before the U.S. presidential election in November.
		Townsend added that there are other targets U.S. officials are aware of, although the intelligence has been less detailed.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/hm/788F1B50-D9DD-462F-83B317AA2C29B48F.html (635 words)

	IFPA-Fletcher Conference Bio
		The Honorable Frances Fragos Townsend is Assistant to the President for Homeland Security.
		Townsend came to the White House from the U.S. Coast Guard where she was Assistant Commandant for Intelligence.
		Townsend received a B.A. and an B.S. from American University, and a J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law.
	www.ifpafletcherconference.com /2004/bios/townsend.htm (216 words)

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