Former Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge is in the news these days because a forthcoming memoir apparently makes the claim that he felt pressure from his Bush administration colleagues to raise the terror alert level before the 2004 elections. Sounds like a blockbuster claim.
There are others. In reading about the book on Amazon, I learned that Ridge’s book will reveal “how the DHS was pressured to connect homeland security to the international ‘war on terror.'”
Wow, can’t wait to get those details. Everyone knows that the Department of Homeland Security, established after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, has nothing at all to do with protecting the homeland from terrorist attacks. What blatant politicization of national security. I bet Dick Cheney and Karl Rove came up with that one. Sheesh.
