Did anyone EVER think otherwise ?

POSTED BY: rue
UPDATED: Friday, August 21, 2009 17:03
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RUE

Thursday, August 20, 2009 10:43 PM

Tom Ridge, the first head of the 9/11-inspired Department of Homeland Security, wasn't keen on writing a tell-all. But in The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege...and How We Can Be Safe Again, out September 1, Ridge says he wants to shake "public complacency" over security. And to do that, well, he needs to tell all. Especially about the infighting he saw that frustrated his attempts to build a smooth-running department. Among the headlines promoted by publisher Thomas Dunne Books: Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was "blindsided" by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of the emergency agency blamed for the Hurricane Katrina disaster ignored; 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.

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Silence is consent.

PIRATENEWS

Thursday, August 20, 2009 11:17 PM

Tom Ridge ran deathsquads in Vietnam, so of course he's the perfect pick for fuhrer of Homeland Security in charge of Reichstag Fires.

Tom Ridge in Vietnam: Tarnished Star
www.counterpunch.org/ridge2.html

Why G.W. Bush should be frogmarched before the Hague
http://crooksandliars.com/node/24929

KWICKO

Friday, August 21, 2009 4:51 PM

Huh. Bush & Co. wanted to raise the terror alert level for political purposes. How very... EXPECTED.

Not news by any means, but it's nice to have it confirmed from within the inner circle.

Mike

NIKI2

Friday, August 21, 2009 5:03 PM

If even a large portion of the Bush Administration had Ridge's decency to resign when they saw it going the way it did, maybe the American people would have awakened sooner. Just sayin'.

I'm glad he did, and I'm glad of any further opening of that very "closed society"...some of us could see what was going on AS it was going on; time the American people (those who don't dismiss it from their own bias) saw it too.

I say yay Ridge.

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