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Tom Ridge: I Was Pressured to Raise the Terror Alert to Help Bush

By | 08.20.09 | 10:18 am

This revelation from former Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge’s new book, nabbed by Paul Bedard, might shed some light on why Ridge passed on a 2010 U.S. Senate bid.

[He] was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush’s re-election, something he saw as

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DHS: Colors

By | 07.29.09 | 10:05 am

One more thing that bears mentioning from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s big counterterrorism speech. Here’s what she said about her department’s much-derided color-coded terrorism “threat level” system:

I want to add that I also recently appointed a task force of experts to review our existing color-coded threat system

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