At least Tom Ridge is honest

[Ikohn4ever]

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.

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


I mean I think many people already thought this, but I am glad he's at least honest.

 

[speedracer]

[quote name='Ikohn4ever']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.[/QUOTE]
I really wish that if politicians see something so damned awful that they have to resign to get away from it, that they would, you know, LET THE REST OF US KNOW ABOUT IT GODDAMN IT.

Appreciate that he's saying it now. But c'mon now.

 

[perdition(troy]

So he was pushed to do it, but never did it?

 

[Msut77]

Reading the article someone did it even if "he" didn't.

 

[cletus]

I read about this yesterday and was surprised to find out I was wrong about Ridge after all. I had assumed at the time he got that post that he was just another Bush lackey given a cushy position and all that was expected of him was to rubberstamp any policies from the White House. Nice to know he had a brain and at least tried to fight some of the more asinine things happening during his time in office. I'll be interested in reading his book when it comes out. I seem to recall he was a potential vice president candidate at one point in 2008. To bad that didn't work out.