Ex-Bush Official Joins CNN

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Frances Townsend, former chief anti-terrorism and homeland-security adviser to President George W. Bush, joined CNN as an on-air contributor.

She will provide analysis on national-security issues for the network.

She also formerly worked in the Justice Department under the Clinton administration.

She was chair of the Homeland Security Council from May 2004 until exiting in January. Before that, she was deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism.

Townsend said she will talk about "how serious the threat [of global terrorism] is, what is being done about it and how much is left to do."

John Eggerton
John Eggerton

Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.