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Tom Ridge: I'm Not Second-Guessing Bush Terror Alerts

Tom Ridge's new book, The Test of Our Times, isn't even out yet and already the former Homeland Security chief is backing off some of its claims. In the book Ridge says that shortly before the 2004 election, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a "vigorous" discussion, pressured him to raise the national terror threat alert level after Osama bin Laden released a videotaped message, suggesting they did so for political reasons. Ridge writes that @he rejected raising the level because bin Laden had released nearly 20 such tapes since 9/11 and the latest ...

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