Bush Used Terror Alerts for Reelection

A bombshell from another Bush administration tell-all: Former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge says in his upcoming book that President Bush manipulated the terror-threat alert system for political gain. Ridge says that he was pressured to raise the alert level on the eve of President Bush’s reelection in 2004. “Journalists, including myself, were very skeptical when anti-Bush liberals insisted that what Ridge now says is true, was true,” Marc Ambinder writes. “We were wrong.”