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| Ex-US security head links politics, |
| Ex-US security head links politics, terror alerts
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 21-August-2009
9:58:30 AM |
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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 country'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. In the end the alert level was not changed, but Ridge said the episode convinced him to follow through with his plans to leave the administration; he resigned on November 30, 2004.
The Homeland Security Department, which Ridge was the first Bush Cabinet secretary to lead, faced criticism in 2004 from Democrats who alleged that raising the alert level was designed to boost support for the Bush administration during an election year
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