WASHINGTON — The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level, Ridge now says.
“More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it,” Ridge told reporters. “Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don’t necessarily put the country on (alert). … There were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said, ‘For that?'”
No, not for the terror intelligence. For the poll numbers when John Kerry would surge ahead of Bush in the 2004 election or when there was some bad news to distract from. Silly Tom.
Attention Americans who haven’t been paying attention the last five years. This president and his maladministration are lying to you. About almost everything. They will say anything and do anything to preserve and consolidate their power as proxies for the wealthy elite and corporate cronies. Even if it means panicking the country, costing state and local agencies millions of dollars, and making us less secure against a very real threat of terrorism by crying wolf.
We now return you to your Radical Writ, already in progress.
