By:
Nicole Belle from Crooks and Liars:
Homeland Security Department Adviser Fran Townsend was on the
Situation Room to speak about Iraq and the War on Terror. Bless
her little heart, she tried to spin it as best as she could for the
administration, but since reality is well known for having a liberal
bias, her attempts fell rather on the pathetic side. I’m going to
try to get video for it (John’s having some connectivity issues related
to the power outages earlier), but here are the transcripts, courtesy of CNN:
HENRY: But now as 2006 ends, Osama bin Laden is
still at large. Heading into 2007, how confident are you that he can be
brought to justice this coming year?
TOWNSEND: Well, there’s no question in my mind that he’ll be
brought to justice. The real question is whether or not it’s going to
be this year. I will tell you that I feel increasingly confident, you
know, it was interesting. There’s a recent poll and the American people
said 71 percent of them were optimistic that we can protect the country.
And I think they’ve got reason to be optimistic. We’ve made a
lot of progress. They see the progress we’ve made. We’ve disrupted
plots. We’ve made reforms in our system, in our security system. So on
bin Laden, do I think we are going to get him? I absolutely know we’re
going to get him.
The question is will it be this year. And I will tell you I
think there’s increased activity both the part of the CIA, JSOC and our
partners, the Pakistanis.
HENRY: You know, going back to September 2001, the president
said, dead or alive, we’re going to get him. Still don’t have him. I
know you are saying there’s successes on the war on terror, and there
have been. That’s a failure.
TOWNSEND: 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.
::Tullycast:: 