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Downing Resigns as Bush Aide
Anti-Terror Adviser Was Hawk on Iraq
By Thomas E. Ricks
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, June 28, 2002; Page A01
The top White House official for coordinating the federal government's counteroffensive against terrorism resigned yesterday in a surprise decision that removed one of the Bush administration's leading advocates of launching aggressive and unconventional attacks on terrorist networks.