More often than not we were the least inclined to raise it. Sometimes we disagreed with the intelligence assessment. Sometimes we thought even if the intelligence was good, you don’t necessarily put the country on (alert)… there were times when some people were really aggressive about raising it, and we said ‘for that?'In the wake of this week's bogus New York Subway alert, Bloggermann posts details of thirteen instances where a heightened US terrorist alert seems to have coincided very, very neatly with political expediency.
- former Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge.
About time someone did this.
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Yeah, I thought it was a pretty significant segment, not only for what it said, but by the fact that it was done at all.
Howard Dean was absolutely pilloried when he made a similar allegation back in the campaign of 2004.
For so long, this administration wielded fear and threat so well, that there was very little mainstream press criticism. But if you look at the news today about the staged teleconference(not the first, but the first covered in the press) and this Olberman segment, the waning power of this administration and particularly of Rove becomes evident.
Mike
http://bornatthecrestoftheempire.blogspot.com/
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