Crooks and Liars

Saturday August 12, 2006 03:24 pm

Tom Ridge Blasts Cheney on Lamont Statement

By John Amato

Newsweek via MSNBC  

At the same time, [...]Dick Cheney, darkly warned that the Connecticut primary victory of antiwar candidate Ned Lamont over Sen. Joseph Lieberman would only encourage "Al Qaeda types." (Interviewed by NEWSWEEK, former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge bridled at his former colleague's remark: "That may be the way the vice president sees it," he said, "but I don't see it that way, and I don't think most Americans see it that way.")