…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.

Also worth, in fact requiring the demand for an investigation, BEFORE THE ELECTION. But he did neither.

CYA

If the security alert was raised on the advice of people who were outside the DHS, what the frack was Ridge's job?

for the office (POTUS).

1. Too much money to be made.

2. Writing a tell all book. Fiction.

3. Too much money to be made from book sales.

It is utterly fascinating and yet totally predictable to hear these guys squeal after the fact. I suppose its not too much to ask that someone actually come foward when it counts rather than later when they want to whore a book deal. But hey, I guess its free market republicans we're usually talking about anyway! Better to bag some money than do what is morally right.

Couldn't have said it any better !!!

All these traitors come forward long after the limiting statutes for their crimes against America have run out. This scumbag pile of Christoshit should be charged for complicity in the Bush regime's treason against us.

The Bush Crime Regime used a Terror Alert System, which was of their own devise, to scare people into voting their sorry criminal asses back into our White House. Let's not forget the Al Qaeda video that 'surfaced' at the same time, very conveniently, and The WarPigs approval rating jumped. You can't tell me that Al Qaeda wasn't and possibly still is on our Governments payroll.

Why is Dick, George and Von Rumsfeldt being allowed to run free and collect their cushy little pensions? Why aren't they living out the rest of their sorry lives locked up in Leavenworth Penitentiary? Yes, and why has Ridge taken this long to say anything? That should be criminal in itself. Amazing.

duh okay.

..all the books and stories and revisionist history they want to. This nation is morally bankrupt and the war criminals know it and are laughing at us. Much the same way our "Allies" overseas are laughing at us for electing w in the first place and much the same way osama bin ladle is laughing at us for the morality we preach so vociferously.

Luckily, CNN 'contributor' Frances Townsend has already totally disputed Tom's claims.

Well, sort of.

Frances Townsend: Kiran, I actually chaired the meeting and called it. Tom Ridge knew very well that I agreed with him that I didn’t believe there was a basis to raise the threat level, but I knew there were others in the Homeland Security Council that did believe that and we agreed we’d have the conversation. By the way, what Tom Ridge’s book doesn’t say is the most eloquent case for not raising the threat level was not made by Tom in fact, it was made by Secretary of State at the time, Colin Powell. And Bob Muller, at great personal risk – remember his boss John Ashcroft was advocating to raise it – based on the facts of the intelligence, Bob Muller himself made an eloquent case not to raise it.

So she had qualms, and agreed with Tom, but pushed to raise the alert level anyway.

Maroon.

Ah yes. Back in the days when life was simple. We had a deck of cards to represent all the evil ones in Iraq. We had a color wheel to tell us how tight to draw our sphincters each day and a president who spent his days clearing brush and reading children's second grade books. Ah yes, those were the good old days.

How can this nation EVER get back to normal again when one side KNOWING BACKS the criminal bush administration and the other refuses to let it go? I refuse to let them go! I will hound my representatives at every opportunity, and I will NEVER vote for another GOP until they reconcile this matter before a court of law!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSvJwUFI_es

republicans believe in doing anything to get elected. Doesn't matter what it is, or who gets hurt just as long as they can get into some kind of position to steal from. These people really make me sick@!

republicanism is a mental illness!

Frances Townsend was on teevee a few minutes ago saying, "No, Tom Ridge has it all wrong. We're so very sorry how confused he seems to be on this issue." Uh huh.

Ridge is running for higher office or angling to be someone's running mate with this book.

what liberal bloggers were saying a year ago has now come to fruition in Ridges'revelations regarding the terror alerts and twisting them to affect the outcome of the national election. if any of you still feel bush was the fool or the puppet of rove, cheney or any other in his administration, think again. he was the shrewd diabolical mastermind of all of it. He likes to talk about his legacy and how history in the long term will judge his presidency. he truly is slipping if he feels that he has to wait to be judged. a hundred years from now, he won't even be a footnote. He's being judged here and now and by his own trusted staff. What's really scary is that there was not even a good front put up for the manipulation of the terror levels. what could be seen by all, other than the densest among us (listen up heartland) was placed on the blogs and the bloggers were essentially told to shut their traps with this conspiracy nonsense. Well, i will never give in the warren commission report, there was a conspiracy behind the kennedy assassination and bush was in conspiracy with bin ladin to steal the presidency and bring this country to its knees. they damned near succeeded. if you don't believe, it try to remember what was outrageously unbelievable a year ago and where do you stand on those issues now. what i refuse to believe now is that bush was fully knowledgeable of 911 before it ever occurred. i refuse to believe that. where will i be a year from now on that issue.

"LEFT WING LUNACY TURNS INTO REALITY." RONALD REAGAN

Tommy should have spoke up YEARS ago. He's a willful puppet.