A Blast From the Past - Bush Administration Raises "Terror Threat Level" Days Before 2004 Election
There is no question what Comey's up to. This is a play from the same book:
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32501273/ns/us_news-security/t/ridge-says-he-was-pressured-raise-terror-alert/
WASHINGTON — Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge claims in a new book that he was pressured by other members of President George W. Bush's Cabinet to raise the nation's terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election.
Ridge says he objected to raising the security level despite the urgings of former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, according to a publicity release from Ridge's publisher. He said the episode convinced him to follow through with his plans to leave the administration; he resigned on Nov. 30, 2004.
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“There was absolutely no support for that position within our department. None,” he writes. “I wondered, ‘Is this about security or politics?’
Post-election analysis demonstrated a significant increase in the president’s approval rating in the days after the raising of the threat level.”
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