Tom Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win

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In a new book, former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge reveals new details on politicization under President Bush, reports US News & World Report's Paul Bedard. Among other things, Ridge admits that he was pressured to raise the terror alert to help Bush win re-election in 2004.

Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was "blindsided" by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of the emergency agency blamed for the Hurricane Katrina disaster ignored; and was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush's re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over.

Dave Weigel, writing for the Washington Independent, notes that in the past, Ridge has denied manipulating security information for political reasons. In 2004, for example, he said, "We don't do politics in the Department of Homeland Security."

The Bush administration was forced to admit in the days after the 2004 alert that it was based on intelligence three or four years old. Officials then claimed there was a previously unmentioned "separate stream of intelligence" that justified the warning -- but offered little tangible information to support their new story..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/tom-ridge-i-was-pressured_n_264127.html

As if we needed Tom Ridge to tell us the Bush Administration manipulated the war on terror and manipulltaed weak ass American "can't see the forest for the trees" minds.
 
Sorry, but due to the fact the article came from Huffington post, you should automatically state that and simply dismiss all content of the article based on the source.
No, Dungheap and others need to jump in and diss it because of the source, they tell me that huffpo is rare and they've never seen any moveon."anything" on this site.
 
it's not a huge stretch of the imagination to hear about tom ridge lying to the people, nor is it a stretch to imagine that he's prone to being a wimp in the face of unlawful orders.
 
The source is Ridge's book.


I hope that helps.
The "source" is huffpo as much as the other source is the NYT. Hope that "helps".

At least once per day somebody brings huffp on the site and you bring silence, maybe once every other week somebody brings up a NYT editorial and you jump on it like a con on moveon...

Weak.
 
The source is Ridge's book.


I hope that helps.
The "source" is huffpo as much as the other source is the NYT. Hope that "helps".

At least once per day somebody brings huffpo on the site and you bring silence, maybe once every other week somebody brings up a NYT editorial and you jump on it like a con on moveon then you actually defend yourself with "it's rare"... then MINUTES LATER bring this?

Weak.
 
it's not a huge stretch of the imagination to hear about tom ridge lying to the people, nor is it a stretch to imagine that he's prone to being a wimp in the face of unlawful orders.
Then also prone to writing himself up and patting his own back later.

"I tried to get them to block Brown! I didn't play politics in the DHS, but I did do this..."

Anyway, I pretty much believed this to begin with. The stupid "terror alerts" are worthless anyway and have been since the first day they came up with the alert rainbow. What is its color today? Magenta?
 
it's not a huge stretch of the imagination to hear about tom ridge lying to the people, nor is it a stretch to imagine that he's prone to being a wimp in the face of unlawful orders.
Then also prone to writing himself up and patting his own back later.

"I tried to get them to block Brown! I didn't play politics in the DHS, but I did do this..."

Anyway, I pretty much believed this to begin with. The stupid "terror alerts" are worthless anyway and have been since the first day they came up with the alert rainbow. What is its color today? Chartreuse?
 
Then also prone to writing himself up and patting his own back later.

"I tried to get them to block Brown! I didn't play politics in the DHS, but I did do this..."

Anyway, I pretty much believed this to begin with. The stupid "terror alerts" are worthless anyway and have been since the first day they came up with the alert rainbow. What is its color today? Magenta?

waiting to see 'red to the 3rd degree'. then i'll wonder and worry.
 
Then also prone to writing himself up and patting his own back later.

"I tried to get them to block Brown! I didn't play politics in the DHS, but I did do this..."

Anyway, I pretty much believed this to begin with. The stupid "terror alerts" are worthless anyway and have been since the first day they came up with the alert rainbow. What is its color today? Chartreuse?

The color system is silly. They should've at least used numbers like in the UK so we wouldn't seem so childish; but no one alters their behavior based on it anyway, since it's just wolf-crying over and over again.
 
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