tom ridge

The International Center for Transitional Justice usually focuses on bringing to light and holding perpetrators accountable for such heinous crimes as genocide, mass murder and systematic torture, often in far-off war-torn countries with dismal human rights records.
So it’s significant that today they’ve released a report calling on the United States to follow its legal obligation [...]

As Greg Sargent first reported, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) will preside over a hearing on presidential “czars” in his Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. The hearing will be this Thursday, and the scheduled witnesses are Tom Ridge, George Mason University Prof. James Pfiffner, former OLC Lee Casey, and Harold Relyea, formerly of the [...]

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 politically motivated and worth resigning over.
That’s a [...]

The former governor of Pennsylvania and former Secretary of Homeland Security appeared on C-SPAN this morning and called a 2012 run for president “unlikely,” but hinted that he “learned a long time ago never to say never.”

Having lost his strongest (theoretical) 2010 GOP Senate primary opponent, former Club for Growth President Pat Toomey blasts out a statement about former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge.
Tom Ridge is a true patriot and a leader. In his eloquent statement today, he said: ‘My belief is that those in my home state can best be served [...]

Republicans are groaning over this announcement today from former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge:
After careful consideration and many conversations with friends and family and the leadership of my party, I have decided not to seek the Republican nomination for Senate.
That dials the calculation in Pennsylvania back to what it was a week ago — Republicans are [...]

As buzz builds about a possible Pennsylvania Senate run by former Gov. Tom Ridge (R-Pa.), the foreign agents filings for Ridge Global LLC, reveal that he doesn’t live in his old state. According to his filing from June 12, 2008, Ridge’s residence is on Woodlawn Ave in Chevy Chase, Md., the tiny Montgomery County suburb [...]

The new Quinnipiac poll on Pennsylvania’s 2010 U.S. Senate race shows Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) thrashing Republican candidate Pat Toomey, but only narrowly leading former Gov. Tom Ridge (R-Pa.). But since the poll did not ask Republicans who they’d choose in a primary between Toomey and Ridge (who has not come out and said he’d [...]

For politicians in the U.S. and abroad, it once seemed like a good idea to hitch their political fates to George W. Bush’s wagon.