George W. Bush vets dismiss Tom Ridge claims

Source: Politico

Top officials from the George W. Bush White House are disputing claims in former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge’s coming book that they pressured him to adjust the terror threat level for political gain.

“We went over backwards repeatedly and with great discipline to make sure politics did not influence any national security and homeland security decisions,” former White House chief of staff Andy Card told POLITICO. “The clear instructions were to make sure politics never influenced anything.”


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Card insisted that he does not “remember the president ever overturning a recommendation” from DHS and NSC on any adjustment to the threat level.

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Card also disputed Ridge’s claim about a plan to specifically integrate DHS and FEMA disaster relief prior to Katrina.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26313.html

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Lots of I don't remember that happening or I am surprised that Tom Ridge is saying that
now because I don't recall him having a problem back then.


Lying liars trying to cover their asses ..... BTW way to take a stand now Tom where the f***
were you in 2004? After the republicans in Warren County, Ohio called a "terror warning"
so they could count the votes in private.

of the woodwork to deny.

"We issued a strongly-worded memo to cover our ass. When we issued the memo we were already flagrantly violating its principles."

Card's weasel words and legalistic, non-denial denials are a clear admission of guilt, IMO.

There is no question that this was manipulated.

don't really need anyone to tell me that.... seems like ridge just confirmed what seemed a given.

I hope his book sinks like a stone just like little Scotty's did after the initially "boost" from the belated confessions dies down.

These "tell alls" do not really tell all. And what they do tell could have changed the course of history for the infinitely better, if these people had opened their mouths at the time.

Instead, they stayed silent until they thought they could get some personal advantage. Powell and Tenet, too.

As far as I am concerned, all these Republican authors are turds.

I believe the bus meat.

This morning he NPR quoted him as saying he fought against elevating the alerts-- and won. I'm thinking that Ridge received a few terrorist threats last night.

I'll have to see what his book says, but he said this morning is different than what he is saying today.

Michael Connell



the man behind the I.T. vote manipulation in Ohio plane "fell out of the sky"




Karl getting "the latest info" on election night 2004

to Politicize the Terror Alert System for their own gain. Hhummm, am I missing something here? :crazy:

“The clear instructions were to make sure politics never influenced anything.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4025678

The Bush Criminal Enterprise hardly did anything without gauging whether they could get away with it politically or not.

And Andy Card played a big part in this Enterprise. For a humorous take on his role, view this: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtf_Gxy9ZRY>

with disaster relief before Katrina. As though Katrina were a terrorist attack, they secured the area, not letting in things like food, water, ice, etc.

A friend left Jefferson Parish and went to Baton Rouge. There, in Baton Rouge, trucks with water and food sat, not allowed to go any further. Water/ice trucks got diverted as far as Massachusetts, where they sat, their drivers sleeping in them while collecting overtime until the matter hit the press (fair to the driver, of course, just not to the taxpayer).

Another friend who happened to travel to Houston found volunteer workers, including doctors, sitting in a hotel lobby there, doing nothing and frustrated. They, too, had been diverted from Louisiana.

A third friend went with volunteers from Northeast animal shelters and animal rescue centers. They were not allowed to enter NOLA, but were diverted to other states hit by Katrina.

And that is only what I know from friends who experienced these things first hand.

We were told that kind of thing happened because of the consolidating of disaster relief with HHS and not enough thought had been given to the differences between a disaster caused by a terrorist attack and a disaster caused by a force of nature. So, how can Andrew Card say there was no plan before Katrina?

On the other hand, maybe he's right. Maybe they just did it without a plan, much like they invaded Iraq without a plan.

I do know that "Heck of a Job" Brownie outsourced a lot of work to the former head of
FEMA and former college room mate.

I saw signs of both during the Bush years.

Comedy gold.

Comedy gold.

is he a Moonie? or just a Bushie? or both?

Of course they need to do this, they know how bad it looks otherwise. Their cohorts in the media have also been down playing this, but, we all know the truth.

Andy Card -- BFEE Consigliere and general water carrier

in a 10 x 10 cell at The Hague?

for most people vets mean forces veterans (or veterinarians) - am i too suspicious? it seems to me that calling these shills "vets" gives them a legitimacy they don't deserve

:think:

Whew. For a moment there I thought the * had put politics and power ahead of defend'n 'Merica from the Towel Heads.

Glad that was not true after all.

God Bless The President!

WHAT?? Bush is NOT president?!?

Well: Gawd-damn him then & Raise the Terra Level to Max!! for we are doomed without Bush to protect us...