Tom Ridge changes his tune on terror threats
ByAug 31 2009
Former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, under fire from former colleagues in the Bush administration for saying politics ruled terror threat levels during that administration’s time in the White House, is backpedaling and saying that’s not what he meant.
Ridge, in his first interview since allegations of manipulating threat levels for political gain surfaced last week, now says he didn’t mean to suggest such a thing.
"I’m not second-guessing my colleagues," Ridge told USA Today in an interview.
Ridge’s book, The Test of Our Times, comes out Tuesday and tells his story as head of the nation’s homeland security efforts after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Ridge’s book portrays his fledgling department playing second fiddle to other Cabinet-level heavyweights. He says he was never invited to participate in National Security Council meetings, he was left out of the information loop by the FBI and his proposal to establish Homeland Security offices in major cities such as New Orleans were rejected.
His most explosive accusation: that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft pressed him to raise the national threat level after Osama bin Laden released a videotape criticizing President Bush shortly before Election Day 2004. Ridge writes he rejected raising the level because bin Laden had released nearly 20 such tapes since 9/11 and the latest contained nothing suggesting an imminent threat.
All Threat Warnings coming from anyone concerning any future possible attacks on this country are irrelevant…considering that well over 70% of the people believe that Outside terrorist had no part in perpetrating 911. The unbelief stems from many areas. If this country with all of the Security precautions that the Previous administration handily put in place within days of the so-called Terrorist Attack; after almost Nine Years of trumped-up reasons to invade Sovereign countries with millions dead and displaced with no end in sight…we are supposed to believe that Bin Laden was responsible. Yet he has never been brought to ‘justice’ after all this time. All that does is insult the intelligence of everyone in this world.
I think he is being kept prisoner..chained in the White House basement for the entertainment of the Leaders. Can anyone come up with a more plausible scenario ?
Bin Laden is dead. Has been for some time. Just watch the videos released of him and see how he changed. He never had any real power at any rate. Al Qaeda does not exist. It’s like how American’s all rally around a concept of freedom and liberty. That’s all al Qaeda is, an idea by Muslims, not a real organization. We’ve all been had. Now it’s time to get mad.
And as you are getting mad, wonder just who benefits from the appearance of keeping Bin Laden alive and making threats and by creating a fake terrorist organization and calling it al Qaeda. Keep in mind these same puppets were used against the Soviet Union by the USA nearly 30 years ago. Now who could do such a thing?
Yes, we know Bin Laden is dead and that he was just used as a scarecrow to frighten the gullible and cowardly. We know that 911 was an attack on us by Internal forces that had nothing to do with WMD at all. It was all merely a trumped-up lie from the depths of hell…designed to expand Zionist control over the Middle East at the expense of our wealth and the Blood of Our men and women…while Israel and it’s mad crew sat back and laughed at what fools we are to be so easily gulled. Look at who is pulling Obama’s strings and then tell me I am wrong. When almost everyone that Obama Picked in his administration are Zionist and most have dual citizenship in both the USA and Israel, it should be cause for pause.
This Health Care Fiasco is nothing more than a smokescreen to distract what is really going on to Finish our Nation off as a world power. Guess Who is now in control ! The World Bank owns us. No wonder the Federal Reserve is totally against an audit. There has never been an audit since it was created by a Cabal of Rich Zionist Jews in 1913. We must do away with that evil monstrosity or we are lost. It is time Congress stepped up and did what they are supposed to do…control the money supply.