Tom Ridge: 'I was pressured to raise terror alert to help bush win'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/20/tom-ridge-i-was-pressured_n_264127.html

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.

who was paying attention knew that was exactly what was happening.

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Tomorrow's headline in NYT?

David Yglesias and Carol Lam, for two, lost their jobs for being...honest.
Really, what is integrity FOR if you can't make a buck or two off of it?

I wonder what other governmental departments were subject to political pressure from Bush and his Brain?

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until they can SELL it in their books, long after way too many people have literally DIED from their silence.

Years later they vomit up the ugly truth, way too late to have any real impact on history, other than their financial history:grr:

Not so much when you're Secretary of Homeland Security.

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Maybe he should have said something five years ago.

He should have picked up the phone and called every news agency in the country. What a damn coward! :grr:

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especially the one where Bin Laden endorses Kerry?

I'm curious about that as well.

Why didn't he publicly blow the whistle on the shit-chimp? Why didn't he hold a press conference to tell the American people about what a cynical, manipulative jerkoff Bush was, stealing one election and cheating and defrauding his way through the other?