Guess Who Came for Breakfast
By Michael Kraft
Gerry Adams may have been snubbed by the White House on St Patrick's Day but he had
some unusual breakfast neighbors when American supporters of the Sinn Fein, the "political" wing of the IRA, held a breakfast for him at the Capitol Hilton hotel that morning.
In an adjoining ball room, Frances Townsend, the White House's Homeland Security Advisor, was addressing a breakfast of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security. Some of the attendees almost went to the wrong room.
The audience of a couple hundred at the Townsand breakfast included many persons who had worked on terrorism issues in various government agencies. There was no visible sign of security. although security men were spotted at the entrances to the crowded Sinn Fein breakfast.
It appears that supporters, or at the least sympathizers, of terrorists were better protected Thursday morning than those who fight terrorism.
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