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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Ridge spills beans
Posted By John Grooms on Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:59 PM
After the Nixon White House tapes were released, friends and I used to say, “Your most paranoid fears were true, after all.” The same may be said about the Bush years, with one change: rather than “your most paranoid fears,” make it “your worst hunches that those guys were sleazebags.”
Today, Tom Ridge, the first Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, confirmed something many Bush critics believed: the administration forced Ridge to raise the color-coded security alert in order to help Bush’s re-election campaign. Ridge, in his upcoming book about his time at DHS, says he knew the White House order was politically motivated, and he “considered resigning” because of it. Of course, he didn’t, and the security alert was raised, so Ridge’s consideration of resignation is, at this point, a big nothing.
Nonetheless, the revelation does confirm the Bush White House’s Karl Rove-derived view of everything, including important policy decisions, being political. And to think we’re still paying for those bozos’ policies.
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