." >> townsend: i understood that to mean there was no end of the earth we weren't willing to go to, there was nothing we weren't willing to ask for, there was nobody we wouldn't work with. >> narrator: the key to the new war would be secrecy. >> cheney: we'd have to work through the dark side, if you will. we've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. >> priest: in the first few days, the entire blueprint for what would happen over the next decade was written, all in secret. the public didn't know, the media didn't know, and it would take us years to find out. >> narrator: for ten years, pulitzer prize-winning reporter dana priest has reported on hidden military and intelligence operations. >> cheney: a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies. >> priest: in the beginning, we saw a little bit of this world everywhere, and we were gathering bit by bit. >> cheney: it's going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal to achieve our objec

so, instead we created a wmuo zoning with a focus on high-tech offices along townsend street and expansion of entertainment uses, but with no housing and with size limits on tourist hotels. this text amendment is not just intended for 2nd street. muo is the predominant zoning recommended for the entire central corridor. it begs the question, just what on earth is the purpose of the central corridor. muo is the anything goes zoning category. it build upon the notion that high-tech offices, hand commercial uses, and tourist hotels and housing and pdr and entertainment venues can all get along just fine and none will displace any of the others. i promised i'd be back here after your down zoning of residential uses on the 11th street corridor to remind you of the naivity of the planning staff recommendations when they come before you with these polley annish predictions that everybody is going to get along just fine. that didn't work on 11th street and it won't work here either. there are broader implications to this text amendment that have been presented to you to date. and i would hope you

the second point there are five structures two on second treat and two on townsend and this is bizarre and the structure for the london high speed tunnels are 2 miles apart. the last point extending the platforms to other side of main street it's impossible to do [inaudible] to the east bay at the later date. there is no improvement since november and i will touch on this again before the board adjourns to close session to discussed evaluation of the the chief executive and the transcripts of the november, december, january, and march board meetings have disappeared from sfgovtv and the presentation is missing from item number nine in the november board packet. >> thank you and our secretary wanted -- our board secretaried wanted to let you know that sfgovtv has phoned in to say that we are live. next speaker. >> good morning -- >> i am sorry. we called mr. patrick first but you can go right after him. >> hi i am jim patrick and with patrick and company in san francisco and as a neighbor to this project. i approached this board a number of times about the west end entrance and i have a

. >> gene was one of the 44 names read at this year's ceremony in townsend.he 27-year-old died on may 2nd. a week after being burned as a firefighter in the fire. >> it is whether it is fighting a major fire. >> gene kirchner's twin brother carried the wealth. >>> student is recovering this morning following a stabbing. a student was stabbed inside of erickson hall during a fight. he is expected to be okay. police arrested kradz and charging him with assault. he attended the spring semester, but it recently withdrawn. >>> police want to know who shot two teen boys in washington neighborhood that happened early saturday morning. one victim is 16 and the other is 17. one was shot in the head and the other in the leg and then had a wound to the face. both are expected to survive. >>> a remind it from police to click it or take it this morning. beginning today law enforcement agencies sharing borders will team up with seatbelt enforcement. last year, 108 drivers lost their lives on the road. you will see beefed up enforcement this week as we head into the memoria

got pete townsend of the who gie an --i do not --, i will do what i want with my own song." tavis: let me raise a couple of examples and we will talk more about the doors. onetime, he let them use of his songs that he regrets to this day. " little red corvette." up, you could lay- see it coming. he did it and he regrets it to this day. that is number one. the person i am worried about today and i say this with love in my heart, i am getting worried about my boy stevie wonder. i see his stuff on beer commercials now. somebody i think has gone too far putting his catalog on stuff that does not really honor the spirit of what this genius did when he did it. i am a little bit worried about the stevie wonder catalog being a bit overexposed. what have you learned in retrospect? >> it is such a volatile subject. bob dylan sounded off on this. i do not even want to tell you. was a political song about changing. .t was sold to a life insurance times are changing. you are getting old. you better get life insurance. oh god. dylan, this hand, guy hates being put in a box. he will do som

we'll talk with cnn national security analyst fran townsend.e in the early morning hours waking guests. the cruise is now over for the 2200 guests on that royal caribbean ship headed for the bahamas. a live report coming up. also, a lot more at the top of the hour including the ridiculous. so we'll start in about 14 minutes, brooke. >> we'll see you then, anderson. thank you. >>> to our fifth story "outfront" tonight. brutal attack on an elderly couple and their 2-year-old great granddaughter. this man, 24-year-old jerry andrew act sieve behind bars. he's charged with entering this apartment complex here this is average wrath, alaska. this happened saturday night, killed the elderly couple. this is what he is charged with. police say he then sexually assaulted their 2-year-old baby, this great granddaughter. police say that child's parents had taken their other son out that night to go see a movie and when they got home they found active in their daughter's bedroom. he took off running and according to police was found about a block away. i wan

chip reed, cbs news port townsend, washington. >> that's the cbs news tonight.all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. students skipping class. kp has learned: >> there is no requirement for schools that identify the chronically absent. >>> kpix has learned the trouble with truancy in the bay area is only a slice of a much bigger trouble at our schools. i am elizabeth cook. >> i am allen martin. new at 6:00, numbers don't lie, but they don't always tell the whole story. in california's tracking system for truancy, it is proof. channel5's anna notarangelo has more about the cut list and it could cost the schools big time. >> california education has focused on teaching students to pass standardized test, but spent very little attention on making sure kids were in school. what schools are mandated to track are truancy rates and there are startling numbers. in 2011, hayward led alameda county with a can i have% truancy rate. that is -- tuna 85% truancy rate. truancy is a technical term with a low standard. it is three or more unexcused absences or 30

fran townsend, let me bring you in.his sound for british prime minister david cameron. fran, after hearing the suspe s suspects' alleged confessions. does it have the hallmarks of a suspected terrorist attack? >> i've been briefed by the home secretary about this absolutely sickening attack in london. it is the most appalling crime. we obviously are urgently seeking and the police are urgently seeking the full facts about this case. but there are strong indications that it is a terrorist incident. >> strong indications that it is a terrorist incident. fran, your thoughts. >> brooke, look, from the suspects' statement alone, you can see why this claiming of retribution for western fighters, british soldiers in muslim lands, we heard this before from groups like al qaeda. and, by the way, we also have seen the release of videos on the internet of beheadings conducted by al qaeda in places around the world. and executions. and so it has the feeling of that. i think that's why you're hearing the british prime minister say t

everyone up and down the west side of the embarcadaro, from nogales at townsend across from the ballpark up through delancy street, the restaurant depend really on its views towards the bridge, to port side, to south beach, to bay side. all of these are residential communities. mostly they are renters communities. delancy street is an interesting community itself, but there is a huge amount of renters on the west side of the embarcadaro. we have no renderings and we need real, if they say these are too big for story poles, we need another alternative. we need something that people on -- that live there can understand. we have nothing, and everything we have is a pretty shot from a bird flying over to the view on the park or from the east side of the embarcadaro. why is it? i've got to think it's intentional, but you have jurisdiction clearly over the west side of the embarcadaro. and you have jurisdiction over the east side in your [speaker not understood] and your e-i-r, and we deserve better from the planning department. thank you. >> is there additional public comment? okay, seeing no

be narrower, we can certainly perhaps restrict this to this one block, which is the block between townsend, king, second, third and fourth -- second and third across from the ballpark. we could limit this to 135 rooms if that was a solution that made sense. but i would urge you to at least initiate today, we can work with the staff and with toby and jim over the next three weeks to see if we can come up with something that's mutually agreeable before the public hearing on the actual merits of the case. thank you. >> thank you. is there any additional public comment on this item? okay, public comment is closed. commissioner moore. >> i think public comment couldn't have been more eloquent to describe what the real issues are. one is wholesale rezoning, adding land use in an area which is so broad that there are -- because there was no public physical planning efforts, there will be contradictions and conflict. however site specific becomes a very different story. what i am trying to say is that without further physical planning, there is not just adding a zoning category to land use plannin

victoria townsend has found herself in the middle of the war in order to get clients to testify. >> inements. >> that is lie, isn't it, right? >> false statements are lying. we think that it was unsound to go on tv and say, she hadn't picked the phone and call us. >> he is making up stuff about me all week. if secretary kerry has any integrity or class he will demand that mr. vantel apologize to me a. >> dana: i don't know how this came to this? the white house in the beginning that we're talking about this report in the weekly standard, they were covering this stuff from the beginning. so, now, the emails show. when you have jay carney's name, it doesn't matter. now nou 6 spokesperson that is criticizing somebody very popular in washington, they are digging deeper. >> andrea: they are. it's getting worse by the day. steven hayes, it's fantastic and explosive. it's everything we thought was here. we knew it as jay carney, isn't it self-evident and there was more to the story. victoria is very credible. when i talked on the radio show can necessity stop your clients from testifying. she

we want to bring in fran townsend to talk more about this?t a british fighter jet would escort this plane to another airport? >> reporter: carol, let's put it in context for our american audience. oftentimes if there is a garden variety unruly passenger, here in the united states we scramble jets to bring it in. a person of interest on the plane because there is a late hit on a terror watchlist, we escort a plane. really scramble jets for people remember the abdulmutallab underwear bomber, rarely an extreme incident like that that causes jets to be scrambled. that's the american context. a couple of things of real concern. the brit tissue ish do this far rarely than americans. secondly, a plane from pakistan, lahore, pakistan that is of concern and third, you rightly point out, carol, given the events -- the horrible events earlier this week, the assault against a british soldier, the british are on high alert. we ought to presume because of the caution of british authorities in doing this sort of an activity, they had some reason. there is e

. >> fran townsend, appreciate you being here. >>> the chinese baby rescued from a sewer pipe in dramatic video seen around the world. that baby is home this morning with his maternal grandparents. known as patient 59 is drinking formula and is being nursed back to health. left the hospital now with his maternal grandparents. rescuers had to carefully cut the pipes surrounding him in sections in order to get that baby free. so far, police believe the 22-year-old mother's story that this was just a terrible accident. she is not facing any charges. so interesting the world has watched this baby for the past several days. this is not really a widely told story within china. >> it is so hard to believe that it could be an accident. >>> 13 minutes after the hour. ahead on "starting point," the american mother, grandmother jailed in mexico speaks out from behind bars making a desperate plea. hear her tearful defense, next. >>> and cnn exclusive, could this be the smoking gun in the michael jackson case? the testimony that t. jackson family believes could win them a lot of money in court. you're

of course, fran townsend used to work as a homeland security adviser in the bush white house.ran, what was your reaction to the president's speech? >> first, i think most significantly, jake, for five years during the first term and now the first year of the second term president obama has been questioned about what is his counterterrorism policy. how does it distinguish it from the pubush policy? the president is moving the country in the direction of pool si what he called pro proportionality. i think you're going to hear there are lots of people who say they heard president bush say the interrogation and black site prisons overseas he also believed were effective and legal and that wasn't enough to sa satisfy the american people. president obama talked about the targeting of anwar awlaki. he talked about due process and he didn't define that. lastly, while he talked about al awlaki and other americans killed in drone strikes he was silent on those why and how that happened. i think that the white house is likely to get more questions there, as well. >> indeed, in fact, i be

. >> somebody like a fran townsend, she is a former prosecutor. she worked at the fbi. she's homeland security council adviser. lots of credibility. >> and we could get one for benghazi and maybe even the a.p. >> maybe a three-fer, right? don't you think at 6:00 you're going to hear the president be very outraged? he's going to be so outraged. i can't believe this happened. the tea party, i had no clue this was happening. i found out when you found out. i'm just like you. >> that is the most insane thing i've heard of all the things he says that he finds out by watching tv, yet he's the leader of the free world, potentially the most powerful man on the planet. >> like, yeah, i heard that on the news like on friday, i think. and it's monday now. >> you're the one who say he's surrounded by the chicago -- i would bet he didn't know about it and they kept it away from him. >> he should be mad at that. >> i said there was a chicago -- d.c., district of chicago circle around him. but when it fails -- >> you think he calls the shots to investigate conservative groups -- >> i

"outfront," cnn's national security analyst fran townsend and the person behind the movie "contagion." they mentioned the current debate over gun control. would that mean that this would be qualified as a political threat over a terror threat? how are the designations made? >> it's really hard. frankly, whether it is a sort of terror threat or political threats is going to be treated the same for the moment. they're going to get the confirmation of the preliminary tests that it is in fact ricin. they'll look for the strength. they'll also look at the forensics. they'll try to determine whether or not on the envelope or on the letter is there hair? is there saliva samples? there are fingerprints? one of the reasons i think you see the joint terrorism task force is investigating this, is because that's where the federal government coordinates with state and locals and pulls all the federal resources together. including cia and other intelligence resources to help them understand what is this against the mayor? >> how hard is it to get hold of ricin and how difficult is it to weaponize i

. >> here's an even deeper point than that, let's look at former lawmakers, billy townsend leaves, doesn't seek reelection. sarah palin leaves to become a multimillionaire multimedia property. evan bayh joined fox news channel, became a lobbyist, this says to me there's something really sad about this whole thing, which is being a member of congress was once the thing you wanted to get to, and now being a member of congress is the farm team, the thing right before the thing you want to get to, the major leagues, which is any one of these much more highly paid influential positions. >> which is anything to make a lot of money, whether it's big pharma, a hedge fund, or welfare. you do mention some of our lovely former democrats. >> but also the feeling that when you look at being a member of congress between calling for six hours a day and the fact that the washington feels completely broken and dysfunctional, particularly congress, it's like, well, sure. >> it could be a rational decision. i'm not sure it's a totally rational decision on her part, because i'm not sure any of them have been,

. >> cnn contributor fran townsend, was one of bush's top national security advisors at the time. >> a man with a very strong internal sense of right and wrong and what is appropriate. and he's going to follow that sort of moral compass. >> as a federal prosecutor, comey handled the terrorist bombing case following the 1996 attack on a u.s. military facility in saudi arabia that killed 19 service members. he also took on the mafia, putting john gambino behind bars, as well as the diva of domestic si, martha stewart. he sits on the booshd of a financial services firm and he was general council for a hedge fund. this may come up as an issue during his confirmation process. senator chuck grassley has said if he is confirmed as fbi director, it could mean comey has to build cases against former colleagues. suzanne. >> thanks, brianna. >>> could be the smoking gun in the michael jackson wrongful death trial. cnn got the exclusive testimony that his family has been waiting for. [ chainsaw buzzing ] humans. sometimes, life trips us up. sometimes, we trip ourselves up. and although the mista

joining us is national security analyst and former homeland security adviser fran townsend. also on the phone, dr. sanjay gupta. they mentioned the gun debate, the joint terrorism task force is investigating. it could be more of a political threat than a terror threat, really. >> that's right, anderson, but as you've mentioned, that's not really at the moment the most relevant piece to the investigators. they don't much care about motive at the moment. they want to know who. and so, to determine the who, they will look for the forensics. they'll look for things like saliva, hair, fingerprints on the letter or on the envelope. they'll analyze, ultimately, the handwriting. but all these things take time, which is why the first thing they're going to focus on is, one, the lab analysis. you heard deb feyerick, the first field test was negative, the second was positive. oftentimes, these field tests are wrong, which is why they're getting a real thorough lab result. that will take a little bit of time, but that will tell them something. they'll expand the strength of the compound

fran townsend, george w. bush so much he could advisor spoke with david sanger of "the new york times." dana priest of the "washington post" and "wall street journal" reported devlin barrett. from the bipartisan policy center homeland security project event, this is just over one hour. >> good morning, everybody the i'm jason but it's o welcome her to the bipartisan policy center. also a pleasure to be here on behalf of governor tom kean and lee hamilton who are the chairs of our homeland security program for sponsoring this morning's event. the core aspiration of our work on homeland security is to be an accident bipartisan voice looking at these key homeland and national security questions. there are a lot of themes as you can imagine that animate the conversation but there's none that's more pervasive in my mind or dynamic than the sun and the question of the relationship in our society of security and liberty. it is a theme that has been at the core of our governments imagination about the role of governm

standing by we have cnn national security analyst fran townsend, pentagon correspondent chris lawrence gitmo, and gloria. but first i want to go to chief white house correspondent jessica yellen. jessica, what can you tell us about the speech? >> hi, jake. the president is going to hit on broad array of topics laying out some of the standards which he has never previously gone into such great detail on before for his own drone attacks on suspected terrorists and he'll go into, we're told -- he'll make the case again for closing guantanamo bay. maybe even explaining how he will use his own executive authority to take steps to pate rate some of the prisoners there and talk about the tensions between national security leaks and press freedom. and also how the u.s. plans to go after homegrown terrorists, an issue that's a new concern after the boston marathon attacks. some questions we're not sure about. that should be interesting. the u.s. has been going on what they call al qaeda associates, terrorists that are affiliated with al qaeda but not directly connected to the 9/11 attacks. will

joining us is national security analyst, fran townsend, who currently sits on the cia and dhs external advisory committees. they have already arrested this tenth suspect. we've heard so much about these lone wolves. if authorities are accurate, though, this would seem to be not so lone. >> that's right, anderson. we don't really know. when we saw the attack perpetrated in that horrible video the inclination was to think it was a lone wolf but as we have seen too many times, first reports are usually wrong. so as the british begin to pick up these people in this network, the question is going to be did they know about the attack in advance, were there indications, did they help him. let's remember, you pointed out that he was picked up by kenyan authorities and thrown out of kenya, comes back to the uk. we understand from british press reports that mi-5, their version, british version of the fbi, may have approached him about cooperating. you don't do that without looking at the network. who does he have access to, could he be helpful, would it be credible in these circles. they obvious

acts, among hem the stamp act being -- them the stamp act being very important and, certainly, the townsend act was -- well, they all were -- inflammatory. and then, of course, the boston massacre in 1770 was another flashpoint that at that point the sons of liberty who'd been collecting and gathering and then disappearing and the idea of protests had sort of died down when this happened, then there was a resurgence of energy and people, and we started talking about independence. and, again, i'm not going to go through the list here, but as you know, the various acts and paragraphly the boston tea party and then some of the other intolerable acts that followed, we were definitely talking about revolution at that point. boston at the time was the wealthiest and most, well, the busiest port in the colonies, and it's probably no coincidence that's where the cradle of revolution began. and, of course, we have the boston tea party here, and here's an engraving of the patriots in that era dumping the tea into the boston hard por, and over -- harbor, and over here one of the many political cartoon

bush homeland security adviser fran townsend. also on the phone, chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. the letters mention the gun control debate. it could be more of a political threat than a terror threat, really? >> that's right, anderson. as you mentioned, that's not really at the moment the most relevant piece to the investigators. they don't care about motive at the moment, they want to know who. to determine the who, they'll look for forensics, saliva, hair, fingerprints on the envelope. they'll analyze the handwriting, but all these things take time, which is why the first thing they're going to focus on is the lab analysis, you heard deb feyerick, the first field test was negative, often times they're wrong, which is why they're getting a thorough lab result. that will take a little bit of time, that will tell them something, they'll understand the strength of the compound. how competently it was mixed, analyze whether the two letters, whether it was from the same batch of mixture of the compound of ricin, all those things will help investigators lead down the pa

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