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Tom Ridge, former Homeland Security chief, said he felt pressure about the terror alert level just before the election. |
Ridge felt a push to politicize alert levels
Tensions detailed in his new book
WASHINGTON - The first Homeland Security secretary, Tom Ridge, says in a new book that he was pressured by other members of President George W. Bush’s Cabinet to raise the nation’s terror alert level just before the 2004 presidential election. (Full article: 500 words)
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