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Ridge backpedals on pressure to raise terror alert level
By Mimi Hall, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — Former Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge, speaking for the first time about accusations made in his new book, says he did not mean to suggest that other top Bush administration officials were playing politics with the nation's security before the 2004 presidential election.
"I'm not second-guessing my colleagues," Ridge said in an interview about The Test of Our Times, which comes out Tuesday and recounts his experiences as head of the nation's homeland security efforts in the first several years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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I knew this was just another case of "Wishful thinking" by the hate-driven left. They latch on and twist anything they can, to feed that hatred that has so dominated them over the last 8 years. Just like the dozens and dozens of other attempts they've orchestrated to destroy Bush, predictably, this one fails miserably.