TGIM! Bush’s White House homeland security aide bails.

Thinkprogress:

Frances Fragos Townsend, President Bush’s homeland security adviser, has announce that she’s leaving the White House. Townsend, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, “was one of the president’s most valued and trusted advisers, with a phone on her desk connecting her to No. 10 Downing Street, the British prime minister’s office.”