Ex-Homeland Security Czar Tom Ridge has admitted, in his new book, to government manipulation of the “security threat level.” This news has me in shock! I wrote about that here and here.
Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge says pressure from fellow Cabinet members to raise the nation’s terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election helped convince him it was time to quit working for President George W. Bush.
In a new book, Ridge says that despite the urgings of former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft he objected to raising the security level, according to a publicity release from the book’s publisher.
Yes, there are still people around who take this thing seriously.
