Did anyone EVER think otherwise ? by rue

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Did anyone EVER think otherwise ?

POSTED BY: RUE
UPDATED: Friday, August 21, 2009 07:03
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Thursday, August 20, 2009 12:43 PM

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

Tom Ridge, the first head of the 9/11-inspired Department of Homeland Security, wasn't keen on writing a tell-all. But in The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege...and How We Can Be Safe Again, out September 1, Ridge says he wants to shake "public complacency" over security. And to do that, well, he needs to tell all. Especially about the infighting he saw that frustrated his attempts to build a smooth-running department. Among the headlines promoted by publisher Thomas Dunne Books: Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was "blindsided" by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of the emergency agency blamed for the Hurricane Katrina disaster ignored; and was pushed to raise the security alert on the eve of President Bush's re-election, something he saw as politically motivated and worth resigning over.

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Silence is consent.

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Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:17 PM

PIRATENEWS

John Lee, conspiracy therapist at Hollywood award-winner History Channel-mocked SNL-spoofed PirateNew.org wooHOO!!!!!!

Tom Ridge ran deathsquads in Vietnam, so of course he's the perfect pick for fuhrer of Homeland Security in charge of Reichstag Fires.

Tom Ridge in Vietnam: Tarnished Star
www.counterpunch.org/ridge2.html

Why G.W. Bush should be frogmarched before the Hague
http://crooksandliars.com/node/24929

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Friday, August 21, 2009 6:51 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Huh. Bush & Co. wanted to raise the terror alert level for political purposes. How very... EXPECTED.

Not news by any means, but it's nice to have it confirmed from within the inner circle.

Mike

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Friday, August 21, 2009 7:03 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

If even a large portion of the Bush Administration had Ridge's decency to resign when they saw it going the way it did, maybe the American people would have awakened sooner. Just sayin'.

I'm glad he did, and I'm glad of any further opening of that very "closed society"...some of us could see what was going on AS it was going on; time the American people (those who don't dismiss it from their own bias) saw it too.

I say yay Ridge.

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