Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge’s backpedaling book tour continues!
As we’ve reported, Ridge’s new book, The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege, asserts that Attorney General John Ashcroft and Defense Secretary Donald Rumseld “strongly urged” him to raise the terror alert level — possibly for political reasons — just before the 2004 election. Ridge has since backpedaled and contradicted himself about whether the terror alerts might have been politicized.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=138734