This seems like it should be a bigger deal

by Will on August 20, 2009

Tom Ridge claims that Bush pressured him to raise the terror alert level to help win the 2004 election.

Tagged as: bush, corruption, Tom Ridge

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{ 7 comments }

1 greginak August 20, 2009 at 11:24 am

I’m sorry this is just BDS from those damn liberals.

2 Jaybird August 20, 2009 at 11:34 am

I’ll say something I said in January:

Obama’s first official act ought to have been to pardon Bush, Cheney, and Rice.

3 Michael Drew August 21, 2009 at 7:13 am

Damn, I wish I’d seen that. That’s an awesome idea. Could still do it, but it would lose some of its pop, for sure.

4 Trumwill August 20, 2009 at 1:56 pm

What’s the rationale, Jay?

5 Jaybird August 20, 2009 at 2:11 pm

It would have pretty much dominated Bush’s legacy for, like, ever. It would have put him and Nixon into the same breath of even his supporters.

6 Michael Drew August 21, 2009 at 7:39 am

Btw, Juan Cole writes this about the Blackwater hit squad story:

And if any of us had said that Dick Cheney was setting up civilian mercenary assassination squads (at least 007 works for the British government), and set things up so that perhaps neither the CIA director nor the president even knew about it, we would have been branded moonbats. But well, that is today’s story [link to a guardian story summarizing the basics].

Anyone have any idea where he’s getting the Bush& CIA totally out of the loop idea? The NYT story has CIA ops training at Blackwater, just total intermeshing. How could a CIA hit program using Blackwater not have CIA in the loop? (And why am I writing this here?) Just certain Cheney-friendly spooks (Cofer Black, Kyle Foggo)? Don’t get it what Cole’s saying here.

7 ChrisWWW August 21, 2009 at 9:54 am

Can we now refer to these Bush administration folks as domestic terrorists in their own right, or at least scum?

Btw, Greenwald dug up this USA Today article from a few years back where Ridge made similar claims. So this can’t be explained away by a simple desire to sell his book.

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