Frances Fragos Townsend advises the president on homeland security. Robert S. Mueller III, the F.B.I. director, called Ms. Townsend "tremendously effective," and Alberto R. Gonzales, the attorney general, described her as "very effective" and "an honest broker."
If Elisabeth Bumiller likes her, you have to wonder whether Bush picked the right person for the job. This isn't just the Slimes, it's the Slimes personified by one of its worst Bush-hating insiders.
She is the woman who savaged Bush at a press conference for daring to question NewsWeak's destructive lies about flushing Qurans down the toilet at Guantanamo.