Sadly, I cannot even attempt to feign surprise at this......
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge says he successfully
countered an effort by senior Bush administration officials to raise the
nation's terror alert level in the days before the 2004 presidential vote.
Attorney General John Ashcroft and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
strongly advocated raising the security threat level to "orange" -- even though
Ridge believed a threatening message "should not be the sole reason to elevate
the threat level."
The former Pennsylvania governor also writes that he saw
no reason for the move, which he now calls a bad idea, because additional
security precautions had already been taken in advance of the election.
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