Tom Ridge has published a memoir of his years in the Bush II admin called The Test of Our Times: American Under Seige and How We Can Be Safe Again. He says that "Bush cronies" pressed him to raise the terrot alert prior to the 2004 election. He says he refused (I thought it was raised). He notes he was the head of the "largest federal agency created since WW II". He also says he was "shut out of National Security Council meetings. The book "paints an unflattering picture of the politics behind securing our country".
(Source: "Protecting the Homeland" by Sachi Fujimori. The Record on 8/27/09)
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